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The 49ers and Bears did not hold formal practices today, but due to the truncated schedule, they have provided an injury report based on what would likely have happened if there had been practice.

The Browns fumbled three times, threw two interceptions and committed a roughing-the-passer penalty on an incomplete on third down.

If anything cool happens in this game today, I will be annoyed that I can't re-watch it later tonight or tomorrow.

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

With pained looks and pursed lips, they slowly followed the cart down the Metrodome hallway late Sunday afternoon.

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.

The Bears can't afford to fumble their chance to beat up on an NFL patsy. As we've discussed, it's the year of the blowout in the NFL.

It was a victory for a division championship that was anything but cause for celebration.

Where do you start after a game like this? The New York papers have been hammering the Brooke Hundley-n-Steve Phillips affair all week ... and this debacle was that kind of ugly.

A team objective can be to take the crowd out of the game, and the Bears did exactly that Sunday.

ATLANTA The Bears' inability to score in the red zone cost them dearly in Sunday night's mistake-filled 21-14 loss to the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome.

They seemed not to have a care in the world as they strolled from the parking lot to the Georgia Dome pulling designer wheelie bags while laughing and exchanging small talk with security personnel, their diamond-studded watches twinkling in the late-afternoon light.

Getting closer: Devin Hester juggles the punt and is about a step from breaking away, but he stumbles and has to settle for a 19-yard return to the Bears ' 38.

Needing to shed one player from their 53-man roster to accommodate the addition of Gaines Adams , the Chicago Bears released veteran tight end Michael Gaines on Saturday.

Israel Idonije participated fully in practice on Friday in Lake Forest and afterward, 12 days removed from arthroscopic surgery on his left knee, he wasn't sure what the fuss was about.

During the bye week, I took the family downtown. I let the wife relax a little bit.

Like every tight end in the NFL, the Bears' Greg Olsen said he always has looked up to Tony Gonzalez.

LAKE FOREST – One year later, Bears defensive end Adewale Ogunleye still remembers the smile.

A bye week gave Bears players the opportunity to travel, rest up and play spectator from their living rooms Sunday, when they watched 2005 first-round pick Cedric Benson become the NFL's leading rusher through five weeks.

The Bears apparently have another veteran coping with a broken rib, but the bigger concern for coach Lovie Smith and his staff is making certain the defense refuses to break against the high-powered Atlanta Falcons offense Sunday.