 ESPN's Adam Schefter calls any deal a long shot, but the Bears are among three teams that have "debated making a run" at San Diego Chargers wideout Vincent Jackson.
Jacison is a restricted free agent, and in the midst of a long holdout. He's also only 27 years old, currently in his prime and his prime to this point has been pretty good. Over the last two seasons, Jackson has gone over 1,000 yards...
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 With OTAs finished, the most alarming thing about the Bears is that they seem satisfied with their No. 2 quarterback. I doubt the satisfaction is genuine, since I’m sure they would have liked to have signed Marc Bulger before he went to Baltimore. However, at this point, the Bears are at least saying through gritted teeth that Caleb Hanie is great and that everything is going to be OK. Per ESPNChi...
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 Dan Pompei of the Chicago Tribune is very excited about the upcoming Bears season. While some Bears fans are cautiously optimistic, Pompei is all in. The Bears offense will be great; the Bears defense will be much improved; the brain trust era is just beginning.
His optimism continued in today’s column as he point out the Bears’ depth at various positions, specifically, linebacker, safety, runni...
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 The story of the Bears' first day of organized team activities is probably how installing the offense is going. It's the biggest change from last season and, surely, installing the offense is their primary goal of these 14 OTAs.
Still, there are other things the Bears would like to have figured out before minicamp. However, one answer that doesn't appear likely to come anytime soon is who the sta...
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 For some time, it's been known that a copy of Mike Martz's Rams playbooks had found its way to the Internet. Not that this is reason for alarm or to worry that any magical secrets are making their way around the NFL. It's just nice that common folk have one variation of an NFL playbook to scroll through, try to comprehend and use to better understand how an NFL offense works.
It's actually kind o...
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 Baseball Prospectus, FanGraphs and all the baseball stat sites can find the raw data they need relatively easily. The formulas they put them in -- not as easy. Still, the data is there.
Football Outsiders, on the other hand, has to do some extra work to gather a lot of the raw statistics they use on their site and in their annual book. A lot of this work is done by game charters who track things ...
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