With due respect to the need to dissect the Bears' defense like a frog in high school biology class, maybe we all are missing the point regarding a ROOT cause of this two-game losing streak.
The charm of a crazy season was all but drained out during one miserable Sunday in Green Bay, but as much as nobody wants to hear it, Bears coach Lovie Smith is perfectly correct in his uncomplicated statement that his team is left with a six-game season.
Former New York Giants coach Jim Fassel said Tuesday that he hasn't spoken with Raiders managing general partner Al Davis in recent days and that his name being linked to the Raiders coaching job is pure speculation.
--After there were doubts earlier in the season that Ryan Grant would be healthy enough to handle more than 20 carries a game, he hit the coaches' target number of 25 on Sunday and showed that he might be all the way back after suffering a nagging hamstri
Arizona's Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald may one day rank among the great pass-catching duos in NFL history, but for now SI's Jim Trotter is set on this top 10?and who can argue with his No.
Now that Mike Brown has taken the first step and said the defense isn't what it used to be, perhaps the Bears can go about improving what they are instead of trying to be something they are not.
Three words would deliver the appropriate message to the Bears this week if Lovie Smith chose to write them on a grease board inside a meeting room at Halas Hall.