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Anger oozed out of Jerry Azumah as he sat mute and motionless in front of his locker Sunday after the Bears' 22-3 loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars at Alltel Stadium.

Olin Kreutz hasn't been immune to the criticism targeted at the Bears ' offensive line.

I was wondering why Kurt Warner's late incompletion from the end zone in last Sunday's game was not ruled intentional grounding and a safety.

3. Ron Turner still has a job despite No. 2. 4. They're 4-5 after playing teams that are a combined 38-42. 5. The remainder of their opponents are 32-30 . Still... if they can't beat bad teams, why on earth would they be able to beat halfway decent teams? 6. They are four games out of first in the NFC North.

Lovie Smith likes to say November goes a long way toward defining a football season, and fewer regular-season games in his tenure have more significance than tonight's meeting with the 49ers at Candlestick Park.

I can't put into words how disappointed I am in the Bears' performance, not only in Thursday night's loss to the 49ers, but all season long.

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Folks, it might be time for some people to offer up an apology of sorts to KC Joyner, who runs the Web site TheFootballScientist.com . Joyner was flamed thoroughly on here back in the spring for some of his observations when it came to Jay Cutler.

A Chicago school is one of a handful of middle schools in the United States receiving $50,000 to help get its students in better shape.

In their first 89 seasons of professional football, the Chicago Bears ' defense gave up 31 or more points in the first half five times.

The Bears ran off the Raymond James Stadium field Sunday like they owned the place, their smiles large and their confidence even more difficult to quantify.

The Bears coming off their first win in two months face an angry Packers team. Green Bay has lost two straight and last week's little post-game brouhaha between Warren Sapp and Packers coach Mike Sherman surely has fired them up even more.

San Francisco's defenders figure the short week worked to their advantage: Jay Cutler couldn't change much in four days, and the 49ers knew what to expect from Chicago's quarterback.

So much for the fear factor with the Bears ' defense. Not only have members of the unit had their helmets handed to them two of the last three weeks, but now an offensive star for a team coming off four straight losses is talking smack.

In studying the Bears ' defensive performance Sunday, lack of execution did not stand out as much as lack of intensity.

Better yet, it was an old fashion butt kicking. The Arizona Cardinals kicked the Bears all over their home field beating the so-called Monsters of the Midway 41-21, dropping them to 4-4 on the season.

LAKE FOREST, Ill. NFL players usually try to avoid saying anything negative about an upcoming opponent at all costs.

Even all these hours after that train wreck of a game against the Cardinals mercifully ended, I'm still left trying to figure out how the Bears got to this point.

Bears quarterback Jay Cutler rests his head in defeat at the end of Sunday's 41-21 loss to the Arizona Cardinals at Soldier Field.

Tommie Harris became the first Bear to go into the locker room for good on Sunday.