Chris Spencer

NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT Titans defensive end Derrick Morgan appears to be thankful that the team has not yet added a pass rushing specialist, despite flirtations with former Atlanta Falcons defensive end John Abraham. Instead,...

NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Linebacker Jonathan Bostic is a prime example of the value of prospects being in the eye of the beholder. While NFL scouts were concerned about his sideline-to-sideline speed, Chicago Bears general...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT For the first 10 years of his NFL career, weak-side linebacker Lance Briggs lined up next to middle linebacker Brian Urlacher in the Bears' defense. That combination resulted in eight...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT If 2011 first-round pick Gabe Carimi is trying to punch his ticket out of Chicago after two disappointing seasons, he's on the right path. Carimi is absent from OTAs that started this...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT In his one season of major-college football, Bears first-round pick Kyle Long started his only five games at left guard. But he lined up exclusively at right guard during the weekend's...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT The writing was on the wall for Lavelle Hawkins with the Tennessee Titans. And on Wednesday, the Titans let go of the five-year veteran wide receiver, ridding themselves of his $1.9...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT The last time the Bears drafted a linebacker who was a converted safety -- like this year's fourth-round pick Khaseem Greene -- it turned out pretty well. That was in 2000, when the...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT It's no secret that the Titans have to be better in 2013 in order to get coach Mike Munchak and his staff off the proverbial hot seat. A 6-10 finish a year ago led to the dismissal of...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Chicago Bears - INSIDE SLANT Most analysts will look at the Bears' first-round pick as a reach for a player who is a project, but that's not the way they see it. Few anticipated the Bears would choose the eighth...

The Sports Xchange NFL Team Report - Tennessee Titans - INSIDE SLANT Many of the mock drafts that came along naturally matched up Alabama guard Chance Warmack with the Tennessee Titans, who had the 10th pick in the draft. The Titans' offensive line was...

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There was bright sunshine at Soldier Field on Sunday, as much as we've seen at any game this year. It was considerably darker in the bowels of the stadium in the back room where injured players are laid on tables and poked and prodded, tested, X-rayed...