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Last week, Jay Glazer of FOX suggested that as many as ten Bears players tried to hurt former Chicago running back Cedric Benson during practice.
Former Bears offensive lineman Ruben Brown took issue with that notion on Sunday.
“That sounds like a lot of mumbo-jumbo,” Brown told WMVP-AM radio, via the Chicago Tribune. “Nobody does that anymore. We all respect each other’s right to earn money. I mean, we’re all trying to make it, and that makes no sense.
“You’re saying Mike Brown, Brian Urlacher, Lance Briggs, outstanding stand-up people in the community and on the team, leaders of our team, wanted to go out and hurt another teammate?
“Come on, that’s far-fetched. I was on the team. I saw when Cedric got hurt. Cedric got hurt on his own accord. Why would Brian Urlacher care to intentionally hurt our starting running back that’s going to keep us from making the playoffs?” (UPDATE: Actually, the back of that sentence is correct . . . Benson was the team’s starting running back in 207, and he kept them from making the playoffs.)
June 16th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Im grateful! Im not a bears fan.
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June 16th, 2008 at 12:16 am
HAHAHHAAHAHA
“Why would Brian Urlacher care to intentionally hurt our stating running back that’s going to keep us from making the playoffs?” ”
because he’s your starting running back that’s going to keep you from making the playoffs..
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June 16th, 2008 at 12:55 am
“”Why would Brian Urlacher care to intentionally hurt our stating running back that’s going to keep us from making the playoffs?””
Oh ya like Cedric Benson was the magic key to everyone having to breakout their dancing shoes to do the Super Bowl Shuffle in Chi-town.
The Bears lost their best chance at the big one when they traded away Jones in 07.
You come off a Superbowl trip, by trading your best RB and drafting a guy who ended up sitting out the year with an injury. In the world of instanst gratification, thi sis not exactly seen as a smart move. Myabe thyey will be able to bounce back from the 7-9 season that placed them in the basement of the NFC North, I don’t see how they could be any worse since they just got rid of this turd.
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June 16th, 2008 at 1:06 am
I don’t understand this part: “Why would Brian Urlacher care to intentionally hurt our stating running back that’s going to keep us from making the playoffs?”
I’m not certain if Brown knows how to speak correctly, or if he is using sarcasm to hint that indeed Urlacher did try to hurt Benson. Should there be a semicolon between “back” and “that’s”? What the hell?
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June 16th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Lance Briggs?!?
“Outstanding stand-up [person] in the community and on the team”?!?
By “stand-up”, I’m assuming he means crash car, stand up, walk away, and wait for police to find you.
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June 16th, 2008 at 2:27 am
My main man Jay Glazer has broken story after story for years. There were reports of this over a year ago. And now it comes out and Ruben Brown an O-lineman denies it? Advantage: Glazer. I know Brown might not want to believe it but they just didn’t like Benson, and now it seems for good reason.
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June 16th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Mumbo-jumbo? Were hogwash, bullfeathers and mularkey already taken? If so, I woulda gone with gobbledygook.
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June 16th, 2008 at 7:37 am
I think the last line says it all -
Why would Brian Urlacher (or any of the Bears) care to intentionally hurt our stating running back that’s going to keep us from making the playoffs?”
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June 16th, 2008 at 8:52 am
While we don’t know the whole story, making sense of what we do know makes it hard to swallow that a group of grown Millionaires would set out to potentially end the career and jepordize the health of a teamate based on decisions beyond his control.
We hear these guys saying over and over again when it’s time to get paid that this is a business. Well, Jones’ time being up in Chicago was a business dicision - I’d like to think the players understood that.
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June 16th, 2008 at 9:27 am
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Im glad your not a Bears fan either.now gow buy a jersey for the last team that won a superbowl.
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June 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Ahhh, 207 was a good year. Back before the forward pass was legal if I recall. The running back was the most important aspect of the offense. I think Brett Farve was in his rookie season with the Waukesh Packers as the “Guy whom the ball is given to first”. They tore through the league with 8 points in going 2-0. The season was stricken from the books however due to the infamous “Goat-Milk Scandal” in which numerous players were seen drinking the banned substance.
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June 16th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Ron Mexico, you surprisingly make a lot of sense. Five Valtrexs for you.
I suppose Cedric’s personality was such that it didn’t disarm his teammates about the situation. Maybe Cedric did display a kind of “arrogance” - but I’m thinking Cedric’s cockiness was a defense mechanism for the resentment he encountered (and for {understandably}feeling like the victim). Maybe *both* sides (Cedric and his teammates) could have dealt with the situation better - but I’m more disappointed in these veterans who took the “low road” with Cedric - resorting to immature, vengeful behavior with someone who was a relative pawn in the business/football mechanizations of the Bears’ front office.
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