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Lions coach Jim Schwartz went after 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh for blabbering key plot points of the latest installment of this season's "Sons of Anarchy" while both coaches shook hands at the conclusion of their game Sunday afternoon.

They are big, immobile and can't block anybody but -- unlike the Bears' offensive line -- the five orange safety cones that head coach Lovie Smith brought to practice late last week allowed the offense to successfully run some plays, which Smith credited for his team's improvement in Sunday night's 39-10 thrashing of the Vikings.

In the first edition of "Deep Thoughts...by Lovie Smith," the Bears head coach ponders the complexities of timeouts.

“It should be amazing,” said linebacker Lance Briggs. “You grow up dreaming about putting a career-ending hit on a great quarterback, but you never really think it will happen, you know?”

“‘Proud’ does not accurately reflect the feelings of our company’s owners and management when we see the on-field play of the Vikings and Colts,” the memo says. “At best, the emotion could be described as ‘mild discomfiture’.”

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Bears running back Matt Forte spent three hours alone on a practice field Friday, imagining he was taking hand-offs and reading blocks from teammates who weren't really there.