Phillip Daniels

The Bears landed with a sickening thud Sunday in their 23-20 overtime loss to the Detroit Lions. It was the sound of them falling below the once lowly Lions in the NFC North with their fourth straight defeat. Early in the game, the Bears turned the...

Five members of the 2001 Bears made the NFC Pro Bowl team. Phillip Daniels believes it should have been six. Daniels, a seven-year veteran defensive end, didn't have the sack total of New York's Michael Strahan or the sack reputation of Philadelphia's...

First quarter The atmosphere was juiced for the Bears' first "Monday Night Football" game in five years. The fans at the University of Illinois' Memorial Stadium booed the visiting Green Bay Packers heartily and cheered the home Bears mightily. Although...

Coach Dick Jauron was asked last week why Green Bay Packers had dominated the Bears over the last decade. Jauron answered politely that he thought the Packers' superiority seemed to coincide nicely with the arrival of Brett Favre. The Favre Decade...

Brett Favre performed as advertised. The Bears' defense didn't. Favre completed 22-of-33 passes for 359 yards and three touchdowns. When he wasn't picking the Bears' secondary apart, Favre was handing the ball off to Ahman Green, who rushed for 107 yards...

The news just gets worse for the Bears. Linebacker Warrick Holdman, who left Sunday’s game late in the first quarter with a sprained knee, had surgery Monday to repair torn cartilage in his right knee and is out for the season. It's a three-month rehab...

Marc Colombo replaced Bernard Robertson at left tackle for the fourth quarter of Sunday's 33-27 Bears loss, and a change could be coming at that position. Robertson was flagged for a false start to take the Bears out of a fourth-and-1 at the end of the...

Details, details. If it's the new code word for bad habits that characterize losing teams, then at least that explained why it came out of the mouth of every Bear who chose to open his after Sunday's 33-27 overtime loss to Buffalo. Does a penalty on...

Marc, you've played both right guard and left tackle so far this season. Which position do you enjoy more, and where do you see yourself playing in the future? --David R. Gonzalez, El Paso, Texas I've played both of them and I'm just as comfortable...

The Bears spent Monday much the same way they did the previous two Mondays—assessing injuries, contemplating personnel moves and getting ready for the next game. Except without the glow of a victory. With local angst rising, the Bears were left to...

Cornerback Reggie Austin's first NFL start began the way he'd always hoped, but it didn't end that way. His early interception to set up his team's first touchdown was overshadowed by a missed tackle that allowed wide receiver Donté Stallworth to score...

If only the Bears played the Saints with the same ferocity as they defended Reggie Austin afterward, maybe they don't lose Sunday. You suspect they doth protest too much when the very mention of Austin, who gave up the game-winning 29-yard touchdown pass...