Isn’t it great when a new acquisition on one of the local sports teams likes to go out downtown and make himself accessible and visible to his fan base?  I don’t mean getting drunk and getting in trouble (Lance Briggs comes to mind, but there are many others).  I’m just talking about grabbing a few [...]

This is the Bears biggest offseason ever in terms of free agency.  It all essentially happened in one day.  Here is a breakdown of exactly what occurred and how it could impact the Bears.  I’m not purely drinking kool-aid today, but as a Bears fan its hard not to.
“The Catch” — Julius Peppers
Wow.  This was [...]

What 3 teams have been essentially the most ineffective teams in the NFL the last few years?  If you guessed Lions, Rams, and Panthers, you would be correct.  I’m not sure why that fact is appealing to the Bears front office, but they have essentially signed 19 players since 2004 that played for one of [...]

The greatest show on grass?  I highly doubt it.  But apparently that’s what the Bears think Mike Martz can bring to the table.  And when I say that the Bears think he brings that to the table, what I really mean is that the other 17 crappy candidates they interviewed turned them down.  What is [...]

How would I describe the Bears’ search to fill the vacancies for Offensive and Defensive Coordinators?  Laughable.  Tragedy.  A joke.  Disaster.  You get the idea.  This has turned into a complete debacle – I really don’t think people understand the full extent of it.  For months, everyone knew that Ron “I don’t know how to [...]

Thanks to NQTC reader Dominic for catching this little mishap.  I have no doubt in my mind that this was an accident, NQTC ads run all the time and I don’t entirely know what is going to pop up on them.  However…doesn’t this kind of thing make you uncomfortable?  I mean its funny, sure, but [...]

Sure, the Bears this year sucked on the field, but you know where else they sucked?  Off of it.  Sure Cutler goes out downtown with his buddy Greg Olsen on Saturday nights and they have a few drinks, but where’s the character?  It’s nothing like that old Bears team of 1985.  Where’s Coach Ditka smoking [...]

The news is very preliminary at this point, but Bears newly acquired defensive end Gaines Adams has been pronounced dead at a hospital in South Carolina:
The 26-year-old was reportedly taken to the emergency room at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood County where he died, County Coroner James T. Coursey told the Greenville News.
While many were [...]

There is one thing that the Tennessee football program and Lovie Smith have in common right now: they are both under fire.  With Lane Kiffin jumping ship to head to USC and all the insanity that has swirled around him and the Vols program over the last 14 months, it should come as no surprise [...]

The Bears sucked this year.  I mean they really sucked this year.  But the problems with personnel, execution, coaching, and conditioning are not the only things that are wrong.  The Chicago Bears as an organization is owned by the McCaskey family.  Now don’t get me wrong, we honor the great Papa Bear Halas by keeping [...]

With all the coaching issues surrounding the Bears right now, it seems an appropriate time to look back on Da Coach.  Lovie seems like a great human being, regardless of how good a coach he is, but he can never do an entertaining interview like this.  The fact that he is in his underwear is [...]

This is an interesting interview with Tommie Harris that took place in the last few days since the season ended:

He seems like a good guy and has an understanding of how this game works: If you don’t perform, it doesn’t matter what kind of person you are, the fans will get frustrated with you. [...]

Although the Bears have not had their big 2 p.m. press conference where they announce that everything is fine and they don’t need to make any major changes (like firing Lovie and Jerry), news is trickling out about some of the things that will be happening:
The Bears have fired offensive coordinator Ron Turner, as well [...]

The Bears had a rough season this year.  Although they finished 7-9, things were not pretty.  It became clear that although there were numerous issues (injuries, Cutler sucking, offensive line lacking talent, etc), the coaching staff and Jerry Angelo were largely to blame.  Well the Bears would like to apologize for how bad the season [...]

The Cover 2, also known as the Tampa 2, was all the rage in the NFL for most of this past decade. It is a simple defensive scheme masterminded by Tony Dungy and his friend Lovie Smith. The Tampa Bay Bucs employed it from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s with great success. [...]