We're just a bit more than a week removed from the end of the 2008 season and the Bears have now released three assistant coaches: defensive backs coach Steven Wilks, linebackers coach Lloyd Lee and defensive line coach Brick Haley. This means that all three phases of the porous unit will have new position coaches in the coming months.Yet how can the responsibility for defensive failures fall squarely on the shoulders of position coaches and not their commander-in-chief, Bob Babich? Better yet,

The Bears continued to revamp their coaching staff on Tuesday, firing linebackers coach Lloyd Lee and bringing to three the number of coaches that have been let go by Lovie Smith. Lee was promoted to the linebackers coach position a...

From: Pro Football Talk.com The Bears have offered former Lions coach Rod Marinelli a job coaching their defensive line, according to the Chicago Tribune. He received the formal offer after Brick Haley, who filled that position in 2008, left to take a job on LSU’s staff. Marinelli met with the Bears last week and worked with [...]

has buy one get one free pizza coupins! even my doorguys get this. he he. too bad i never got to use it for the bears. : ( -steph

(Crain's) — Dick Butkus always did his best work in Chicago. Now his hometown will be the site of perhaps his most important work yet. The Bears legend has made Chicago the base for the Butkus Foundation, a non-profit that is devoted to fighting the use of steroids and other illegal ...

Our good friend Kevin Seifert over at ESPN.com posted the 2009 unadjusted salary-cap figures for the four teams in the NFC North last night. The Bears are last in the group at $17.4 million, but that right there is more...

Based on an Appellate Court decision no less:A federal appeals court has given the green light to red-light cameras that have pumped out more than a million Chicago tickets and generated $100 million in sorely-needed revenue since 2003.The ruling by the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals preserves one of the city's few revenue sources not subject to the economic downturn -- and clears the way for a major expansion that will install cameras at more than 330 accident-prone Chicago intersections by 2

David Haugh posits in today's Tribune that the Chicago Bears should look to 37 year-old Kurt Warner to solve their franchise-long quarterbacking woes. Now I'm trying to go a bit easier on Haugh these days but when he writes things like this it's impossible. I'm not going to waste an entire column explaining how bad Kurt Warner was in the only non-dome, non-Arizona place he ever tried to play (New Jersey). Nor will I provide a play-by-play of Warner's brilliant performance in New England a few

I'm sitting in front of my computer, repeatedly deleting opening paragraphs to columns that will never exist. I've got nothing to say about about the four ballgames played in the wildcard round this weekend. Zero. There were no lessons for the Chicago Bears to learn, though I'm sure some hack Chicago columnists will give an arbitrary number of things (probably 10) he thinks the team should have learned. You know, like, rushing the passer is good.No, today I write an entry onto the blog out of

If Lovie Smith and the Bears cannot lure Rod Marinelli to town, then what? Multiple reports are that the former Detroit Lions coach is in Seattle where he will meet with newly promoted Seahawks coach Jim Mora Jr. about joining...

After a 9-7 season and no trip to the playoffs, the Chicago Bears are certainly looking to improve. But can hiring the former head coach from the first NFL team to ever go 0-16 possibly help? Rod Marinelli, fired by Detroit after their debacle of a season, was seen at Halas Hall over the weekend where he apparently interviewed for a job with the Bears. Marinelli's specialty is on the defensive side of the ball, an area where the Bears need improvement. Prior to taking the helm in Detroit, he

From: ChicagoBears.com The Bears are confident WR Devin Hester will be able to progress and make the next step at wide receiver. Head coach Lovie Smith said, “At times he played like a [No. 1] receiver. If you just look at the progress that he made from start to finish, locking in at one position for [...]

Through no doing of their own, the Bears took a step toward moving up in the 2009 draft Saturday. That is what the overtime win by the San Diego Chargers over the Indianapolis Colts meant. The Bears are tentatively slated...

Wild-card weekend kicks off this afternoon with the Atlanta Falcons at the Arizona Cardinals. We'll take a look at players with connections to the Bears in the games this weekend. Atlanta None. Arizona Mike Gandy. Third-round pick in 2001 was...