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Lovie Smith might have accepted Sunday's 31-14 season-ending rout by the Green Bay Packers more easily if he had reduced the mismatch to a disparity in skill level.

Lovie Smith plugged up the hole that was leaking points, but he didn't have enough fingers to plug the hole that starting leaking interceptions.

NFL Network just showed a clip of Bears defensive end Adewale Ogunleye approaching tight end Vernon Davis during pre-game warm-ups. The two exchange a few heated words before Bears center Olin Kreutz comes and restrains Ogunleye and brings him back to the Chicago side of the field.

If only the Bears had finished Saturday night's 31-28 exhibition victory over the 49ers with the biggest concerns about Rex Grossman being his ability to handle the quarterback-center exchange.

Bears coach Lovie Smith didn't like last week's victory over disgraceful Cleveland described as an "ugly win." OK, pal, so how will you fix Sunday's "unmitigated disaster"? Or maybe you prefer "unconscionable performance" attached to that 41-21 loss at home.

Thanks, Larry! The official injury report for the Bears and Cardinals. Chicago Sun-Times The Bears are forced to play solitaire.

And the Bears don't view themselves as the NFC champions despite crushing the defending champion Seattle Seahawks 37-6 Sunday night.

The Bears look to tear down the defending NFC Champion Cardinals. The stats will say that last week against the Browns the Bears rushed for over 100 yards.

The Cardinalsa offense with Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin has only one touchdown of 25 yards or longer this season.

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

With a swipe of his play chart, Browns defensive coordinator Rob Ryan dismissed Jay Cutler with a wave and a growl.

If this eventually will be viewed as a statement game, then the man who had to speak through a fractured jaw made a loud one whose impact was surpassed only by the Bears' performance.

It is official: Ron Turner, you are an idiot. If there were any doubters of this observation, Turner silenced them this past week asA the Chicago Bears offensive coordinator came out and made several head-scratching comments to Chicago Tribune reporter Vaughn McClure: "Everyone's talking about the offensive line, and I have no idea why.

The Bears have done a lot of things to help themselves to the best record in the NFC.

Shadowing Chad Ochocinco, Charles Tillman's expected assignment today, won't be an easy task, but the Bears cornerback can put it in perspective.

Wow. That's really all I can say after the Bears' 45-10 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday October 25, 2009.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. With Halloween approaching, it was fitting that the Bears watched a horror flick Monday.

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.

For the Bears , Step One in their recovery program is admitting they have a problem running the Football.

The Denver Broncos got and are the NFL 's surprise team, starting 6-0 with Orton throwing nine touchdowns and one interception.