Bears try to take heat off Marion Barber

When New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez called a timeout that eventually gave New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady enough time to engineer a touchdown drive at the end of the first half of the Patriots’ 37-16 victory last month, Jets coach Rex Ryan called Sanchez’s timeout ‘‘the stupidest play in football history.’’ There’s no telling what Ryan would have called an even more egregious misjudgment by running back Marion Barber in the Bears’ 13-10 overtime loss Sunday to the Denver Broncos. With the Bears leading 10-7, Barber went out of bounds on a five-yard run late in regulation, an …