Jeff Graham

Unwittingly, the Bears may be on their way to solving a frustrating problem of recent years-peaking too soon. The preseason seldom portends a National Football League team's fortune for September through January. But the manner of the Bears' third...

Cornerback Jeremy Lincoln's first training-camp memory this year wasn't a blackboard with X's and O's. No, it was a chalked-out chart that soared to the heights and dived to the depths. Perhaps some millionaire players could have misinterpreted it as the...

The Bears aren't natural-born killers, or else they would have won by at least double their 25-6 margin Sunday against Tampa Bay. But they are great party poopers. They aren't ready yet to win a Super Bowl, not going to pieces near the end zone the way...

Road 'dogs. The Bears love that role. Send them on the road, tell them they have no chance to win. Push them to the brink of extinction. And then watch them respond. They were underdogs at Miami in November and knocked off the AFC East champions. They...

The Bears haven't played like losers while losing twice this season. They have played like a team looking for an identity, for a road map to the top. Just as a 27-24 setback Sept. 11 to Green Bay was rife with silver linings in between the sporadic...

The Bears delivered a memo Saturday, not a detailed message, regarding the resurrection of their defense in 1990. Four sacks, an interception and stifling run resistance highlighted the Bears' 13-0 defeat of the Cleveland Browns in the annual Hall of...

Winning isn't everything. Wouldn't you know it, a Green Bay Packer said that. And we'll skip the second part of the well-known cliche right now. Too depressing for the Bears to hear. Vince Lombardi's famous words were given an entirely different spin...