Melissa Isaacson – Page 15

The Tribune’s experts debate the merits of Tampa Bay’s defense against Oakland’s offense, and the results in a near-landslide are:

August 21, 2021 at 3:36 a.m.

RICK MORRISSEY Bucs' top-ranked defense will carry the day For years we've been hearing what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers can't do. If we could sum up all of it into...

Veteran coach has seen it all

August 19, 2021 at 6:31 p.m.

Based on his Tampa Bay credentials alone, Monte Kiffin has had a fulfilling career as defensive coordinator. But his 20th season in the NFL, engineering the league's top-rated defense was...

Burris unfazed by pressure

January 30, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

At one point Sunday, Henry Burris was caught on camera throwing a pass with his eyes closed, an expression of apparent fear in the face of the oncoming rush. But...

Trying to block out loss

January 30, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

Henry Burris is lucky. Sure, he might not have been thinking that as he picked himself off the Ericsson Stadium turf time and again Sunday, only to see the ball...

Cornering a bit of praise

January 30, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

Greg Blache was not quite ready to lavish praise on his rookie cornerbacks, but then anyone expecting that Sunday doesn't know the Bears defensive coordinator very well. "We got out...

No reason to rush to judgment

January 30, 2019 at 10:54 a.m.

Credit Adrian Peterson with a touchdown and an unofficial fumble recovery all on the same play. In the second quarter of the biggest game of his professional career, Peterson ripped...

That run-down feeling

June 17, 2018 at 9:18 p.m.

Amateur philosophers and armchair psychologists will look at the Bears' 30-20 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday as somehow emblematic of the entire 2002 season, and they won't...

Mood: Glum & glummer

January 30, 2019 at 10:55 a.m.

They were numb afterward, and the windchill had nothing to do with it. This was a dead group of players, anesthetized, undeniably finished with four games left to go and...

‘The Natural’ finally gets a shot for Bears

January 30, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Leon Johnson insists he would do nothing to fuel a running back controversy on the Bears, and he's being at least half-truthful. It is indeed hard to imagine the aw-shucks...

Does he have the hunger to excel?

January 30, 2019 at 10:56 a.m.

Aaron Gibson walked off the practice field toward a group of shivering reporters Wednesday dripping with sweat and quickly put to rest any suspicion that he might be edgy talking...

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