Durkin: Wild Card Picks
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Here's something that all NFL fans should understand: The best team in the league does not win the Super Bowl.
Brees set the NFL mark for yards passing in a season, breaking a record that Dan Marino had held for nearly three decades, and New Orleans clinched the NFC South title with a 45-16 victory over the Falcons on Monday night.
Bears offensive tackle Gabe Carimi will reportedly undergo another surgery on this right knee, this time to repair it completely, and he will need four months to rehab.
Here's my take on how the NFL's Week 14 will shake out with my predictions, my juggernaut game of the week, and my "juggernot lame of the weak."
Here's my take on how the NFL's Week 13 will shake out with my predictions, my juggernaut games of the week, and my "juggernot lames of the weak":
Check out Dan Durkin's Week 12 NFL picks.
After rattling off their fourth straight win, one NFL expert thinks the Bears shed some light on what they truly are as a football team.
The Bears announced Friday that rookie right tackle Gabe Carimi suffered a setback and will undergo an arthroscopic debridement procedure Friday.
Olin Kreutz should be remembered for several great things. What he will be remembered for, though, to many fans and critiquers of the game, would be that he was a hell of a lineman for many years, but also that he walked out on his team midseason.
The veteran center who spent 13 seasons in Chicago decided to leave the Saints on Friday, saying he didn't have the same passion for the game, The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports.
670 The Score's Mike Mulligan caught up with former Bears captain Olin Kreutz for an exclusive interview after the Saints 30-13 win Sunday.
The balance, protection and production that the Bears saw last week vs. the Falcons was absent against the Saints. Gregg Williams and the New Orleans defense brought continuous pressure and it put the Bears on their heels.
Jay Cutler crouched down on his knees, his head resting on the turf with his hands on both sides of his helmet as if his ears were ringing. That was after a blindside hit from Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins that was only the beginning of his misery in a 30-13 loss to New Orleans on Sunday.
Chicago free safety Major Wright has been shaken up after a hard head-on collision with tight end Jimmy Graham in the third quarter of Sunday's game against the Saints.
Chicago rookie tackle Gabe Carimi has hurt his right leg in the second quarter of Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints.
The Saints have declared cornerback Tracy Porter inactive for Sunday's game against Chicago, while the Bears have scratched receiver Roy Williams, safety Chris Harris and guard Lance Louis.
The Bears will need a physical approach and a well-tuned strategy to defeat the New Orleans Saints this Sunday, says analyst Tom Thayer.
A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that cornerback Charles Woodson has been fined $10,000 for throwing a punch in the Green Bay Packers' season opener against the New Orleans Saints.
Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week Wednesday.
It will be a battle in the bayou when the Bears go marching into Dixieland for a Week 2 tilt against the New Orleans Saints.
Aaron Rodgers came out on top in a memorable opening-night duel with Drew Brees and the Green Bay Packers came up with a goal-line stand on the final play of the game to beat the New Orleans Saints 42-34 on Thursday night.
For as much as it pains me to say so, I believe the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers will -- once again -- be the class of the NFC in 2011.
