Central division: a split locker room If defense starts pointing fingers at limping offense, Bears' season can collapse

GREEN BAY, Wis.--This is no time for a crisis, no time for astorybook season to be sabotaged by an inept offense, pussy-foot play-calling, erratic quarter-backing and a morale-splitting dragon calleddissension. But suddenly, the Bears are knee-deep in muck, faced withissues that have gutted far better football teams.

It was troubling enough Sunday that the offense continued to spit,sputter, dink and dunk in this defining game against the Green BayPackers, leading to a 17-7 loss that might make the postseasonshorter than it had to be in Chicago. Yet hard as it was to watchfailed opportunities, successive overthrown end-zone lobs, typicalthree-yard dumps in third-and-eight …