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In studying the Bears ' defensive performance Sunday, lack of execution did not stand out as much as lack of intensity.

Better yet, it was an old fashion butt kicking. The Arizona Cardinals kicked the Bears all over their home field beating the so-called Monsters of the Midway 41-21, dropping them to 4-4 on the season.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. NFL players usually try to avoid saying anything negative about an upcoming opponent at all costs.

Even all these hours after that train wreck of a game against the Cardinals mercifully ended, I'm still left trying to figure out how the Bears got to this point.

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler rests his head in defeat at the end of Sunday's 41-21 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at Soldier Field.

Tommie Harris became the first Bear to go into the locker room for good on Sunday.

You know how it takes a historian to remember who actually won at the Alamo? That was the feeling Sunday in Soldier Field.

Who is Jay Cutler? Do you know? Do you have any real sense of the most-spotlighted athlete in our city at this time? I don't. And if you're honest, I think you'll admit you don't, either.

If the 4-3 Bears don't put more pressure on the Cardinals' Kurt Warner Sunday than they've put on opposing quarterbacks in their last three games, they'll be looking at a .500 record at the halfway point of the season.

How have the Bears fared against Kurt Warner? Matt P. Kurt Warner has only started two career games against the Bears, one in 1999 with the St.

Local sports talk radio is filled with angry Bears fans, calling for the firing of coach Lovie Smith .

The Bears still are a month away from playing the Minnesota Vikings for the first time this season, but they have a sense of what the NFC North leaders are all about.

If there are any suggestions on how to slow down Brett Favre and the 7-1 Vikings before they run away with the NFC North, Bears defensive end Alex Brown is open to them.

What happened: Robbie Gould hits a 32-yard field goal with 9:59 remaining in the half to give the Bears a 9-0 lead.

After getting 14 sacks in the first four games, the Bears have not gotten to the quarterback in the past two games, dropping from No.

LAKE FOREST – The word is out among NFL teams about how to stop the Bears' pass rush.

Bears coach Lovie Smith did not have his defense prepared for Atlantaa s hurry-up offense after a bye week two weeks ago.

It doesn't seem like we've seen a game like Sunday's for years, maybe decades. 45-10 was the final, and it wasn't that close.

This review usually focuses on players and their execution, but it would be remiss not to mention that the Bears players were put at a disadvantage Sunday by their defensive game plan.

CINCINNATI ? It was hard to say if the Bears were more embarrassed or disgusted by their most lopsided defeat in more than six years, but there was plenty of both in the aftermath of Sunday's 45-10 loss to the Bengals .