Danieal Manning News

Herea s the deal: Losing to a 3-5 49ers team quarterbacked by the growing legendary failure known as Alex Smith will not just end the Bearsa season.

The Cardinals' Anthony Becht scores a touchdown past the Bears' Lance Briggs , Danieal Manning and Kevin Payne on Sunday at Soldier Field.

Three hours earlier than scheduled. The veteran defensive tackle showed some nice consistency, though, by becoming the first player to escape the locker room after the Bears ? 41-21 loss to Arizona at Soldier Field.

On the ground: Running the ball against first-year coordinator Bill Davis' defense seemed like mission impossible until the unit was steamrolled last week by Carolina as DeAngelo Williams rushed for 158 of 270 yards in an upset at Arizona.

The public "dissatisfaction" over the Bears ' win over the Browns is interesting.

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The Browns fumbled, threw an interception and committed a roughing-the-passer penalty on an incomplete on third down.

Lovie Smith defended the aesthetics of his team's win against the Browns the same way 31 other NFL coaches would have.

The progress of the Bears defense has been treacherously betrayed by the man running it.

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.

Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Cribbs is tackled by Bears safety Danieal Manning during the first quarter of Sunday's game at Soldier Field.

CHICAGO – Bears safety Danieal Manning could not speak specifically for his defensive teammates, but said he sensed some frustration about producing eight turnovers in their first six games.

CHICAGO a ' Danieal Manning felt a little green before kickoff Sunday, and it had nothing to do with envy.

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.

What began as a season of optimism is quickly turning to disappointment for the Chicago Bears.

Bears coaches and players relied on a simple three-part formula after Sunday's game to explain why the team sustained its worst loss in more than six years and what can be done about it.

I've been wondering since 4:15 Sunday afternoon how precipitously the Bears have to tumble for the right changes to be made.

The Bears are finished in everyone's mind but their own. A dreadful defeat to the Cincinnati Bengals is sure to awaken self-doubt and invite a collapse of confidence, but the perfect elixir comes in the form of the Cleveland Browns, who turn up Sunday at Soldier Field.

But his former teammates and coaches didn?t have anything but praise for him after he rumbled through them for a career-high 189 yards.

This was something nobody had ever seen before, making it like Secretariat's 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes and Nadia Comaneci's perfect 10.