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Here's the Reader's Digest version (remember yesterday D. McNeil said he was too busy working to answer questions):
"Rex cannot take this team to the Super Bowl, but most of the city knows his crappiness can stop them from going there," said retired 10-year NFL veteran John Jurkovic, part of the "Mac, Jurko and Harry Show" on Chicago's ESPN Radio 1000. "The defense will take them there, the special teams will take them there, but Rex just needs to go along for the ride and quit being a moron."
Jurkovic, a former NFL defensive lineman, couldn't disagree more. He sees the shaky track record of Bears quarterbacks as part of the problem.
"You've been eating soup and broth and beans for the better part of 20 years and all of a sudden you've got a guy who is skirt steak," Jurkovic said. "People think he is filet mignon when in essence all he is is skirt steak.
"What I'd like is a ribeye, a porterhouse, something like that. I don't need a filet mignon, but I would like something a little better than skirt steak. Just because he's the best we've had in 20 years doesn't make him better than he actually is."
Jurkovic's afternoon sports talk show is a perfect microcosm for the arguments taking over this city. While Jurkovic and fellow host Dan McNeil can't stand Grossman and think he's going to drive the franchise into the ground, the third member of the broadcast, Harry Teinowitz, believes Grossman is more than capable of taking the Bears to the Super Bowl.
Mac, Jurko and Harry estimate they've spent more than half the show arguing about Grossman this season. Especially after the preseason, when Teinowitz bet his two co-hosts $2,000 that Grossman would start all 16 games for the Bears this year. Jurkovic and McNeil still can't believe they lost the bet and made Teinowitz earn his money. Jurkovic paid him with 300 pounds of change, filled to the brim of a water cooler jug, while McNeil paid the bet in wads of singles and fives.
"Say what you will, but Rex has gotten them this far," Teinowitz said. "When they said he wouldn't play every game, I laughed. So now that they say he can't take them to the Super Bowl, I laugh even harder."
"Whatever," Jurkovic says. "He's a mediocre quarterback. That's all he is."
