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Combine report: Bears want Brown back
Combine report: Bears want Brown back
Updated 1:29 INDIANAPOLIS — The biggest news out of a 45-minute sitdown with general manager Jerry Angelo is that wide receiver Bernard Berrian will not have the franchise or transition tag placed on him. The deadline for tagging players is 3 p.m. today. Angelo and Lovie Smith said they want Mike Brown next season.
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Lovie Smith loves Adam Archuleta
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. — ... to do in the offseason. Among the fixable issues on the list above, one very obvious solution presents itself: To correct the secondary, start by removing Adam Archuleta from the playing field. Archuleta was easily — easily — the worst Bear last year. He can’t run, he can’t cover, and he really doesn’t even hit people hard anymore, which is about all he was good for in the first place. Yet Lovie Smith stuck with him throughout the year. And he’s sticking with him in 2008, too: 1. He ...

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