Line of Scrimmage: Hester Situation Another Bad Sign for Bears

When your best offensive hope is a wide receiver with 20 career catches, you've got a problem. When that figure threatens to sit out the season, your problem has become a crisis. Bears all-purpose maven Devin Hester isn't happy with his contract, and the man many were expecting to develop into Chicago's No. 1 receiver this year could instead be relaxing at his Florida home throughout 2008. At least that's the way Hester, who feels he's outperformed the four-year, $2.88 million deal he signed in 2006, tells it. "It's time for me to take a stand," the third-year player - and surprise training camp holdout - told the Chicago Sun-Times on Wednesday. "We're going to stand by our decision to do this, and we feel like this can go down to whenever in the season or the end of the season. No matter what." Most of that posture, of... [read full story]