Boston had that playoff series won in the strike-shortened season, and then the Spurs clearly choked last year. But I suppose many series have that "what if" aspect, so I don't begrudge LBJ his two titles.

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I'm a Cutler hater myself, but that's how I read it too.

I don't think the division between offense and defense is as pronounced today as it was when the '63 defense walked off and told Wade to "Hold 'em" or even when McMahon and the offensive linemen from the Super Bowl team all went out together on Thursdays nights.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Flashback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-I8jQDQ7c

Do you think that if you had said to all those people in that room on that day that LeBron and the Heat were going to eke out two hard fought championships in four seasons, any of them would have said that would be a great success?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

These arguments are not mutually exclusive.

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bizarre thread

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No...we need this guy...he is gona catch 60 Balls this year.

How come with the Dozen dickbags @ the Score covering the team...I've never heard about Bennett being lazy n dogging it in practice n always being the last guy back to the huddle.

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Do you think that success should be defined according to expectations? I believe you, I, and others have argued the opposite when it comes to MLB prospects.

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You DO realize that you effectively just called Dan McNeil, all of the Chicago media & the overwhelming majority of local market NFL teams/Bear fans stupid. It really makes being an NFL fan tiring.

And 312player's pointed question about the lack of prior info about Bennett's "attitudes" is valid. Kiss asses the lot of them, until they agree in lockstep that it's ok to screech about THAT guy

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Hopefully LeBron can one day be as successful as the iconic Derrick Rose.

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In a vacuum, LeBron and his teams have certainly been successful. But I don't think you can ignore situations. In spite of Tall Midget's denials, you and I and everyone else knows that LeBron has been widely regarded as the most talented player basketball has ever seen. And those Heat teams had a collection of talent that was unparalleled in their era, if not great depth and size. That being the case, I don't see how you can think their results were anything but a disappointment.

I would compare them to the mid-80s Bears and their single Super Bowl. Sure, that one year was great, but that team and its overall talent really fell short of what most people believe they should have achieved.

As far as baseball prospects are concerned, I do think expectations matter. If Bryce Harper has the same career as Nate Schierholtz, one guy is going to be a disappointment and the other guy isn't. They really can't be judged the same way.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Knowing what I know about the media, particularly the Chicago sports media, I might speculate on the turn against Bennett. They all loved this guy for his wacky quotes and "interesting" personality. As long as he kept giving them shit to write, they sure weren't going to criticize him. They don't even care if a guy is rude and condescending as long as he is writing their stories for them. See Mike Ditka and Ozzie Guillen. So my guess would be that maybe Bennett just got tired of clowning for these guys and didn't want to talk as much as he previously had. Suddenly all the bad shit makes its way into print. Or did he just start dogging it in practice yesterday?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

By your logic, then, Jimmy Butler can be seen as a more successful basketball player than LeBron. Butler wasn't expected to be an NBA starter when he was drafted, but he's evolved into a pretty good player. By contrast, LeBron promised to win several NBA championships in Miami, but he "only" led the team to two titles. While Butler has exceeded expectations, LeBron has fallen short of them. Now I understand why Rose prefers playing with Butler to the possibility of teaming up with LeBron. Butler is a success, and LeBron is a failure. Thanks for your wisdom, JORR!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So Lil Danny will be just as critical to Bennett's face as it were when he's on with them next time right?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Was he ripping him?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So a Bears player can't defend himself from being muscled around and embarrassed. Mel Tucker has his unit in mid season form already.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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He and Larry were . "You better damn well be practicing hard . If you're half assing it and not making the person across from you better you are doing your team a disservice "

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He is some closet raging alcoholic or having mental issues?

Emery, Cutler and Trestman all said they love him and both Emery and Trestman said they just have to go through the process.

or that he is saving his best for his Sirius show with his brother

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And men have lost their reason.

"Can you imagine being Martellus Bennett's boss?"

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This is starting to look like it is going to be really bad. If his suspension lasts into the weekend I think we may need to worry that this relationship isn't going to last.

Also, I hate Jay Cutler.

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Indefinite suspension from training camp? Does that mean you're sent home to eat ice cream and play XBox by yourself or just confined to your dorm room with just the iPad playbook? Does this result in Bennett being better rested during a part of the season he would rather go without or is this the first step towards figuring out a way to release him, and if the latter how do the Bears maximize his contract value? At this point, given the lack of game checks, this is is only costing Bennett an undisclosed amount (until the NFLPA gets wind).

Which has me wondering the value of WSCR's endless roster of Bears experts. What's the point if none of them can report anything of substance or offer an opinion grounded in any reality? The word "brawl" has me thinking at least two differnt groups of players squaring off or one guy taking on at least two others and momentarily holding his own. Yet the videotape showed me a minor skirmish that wouldn't make a top ten of training camp YouTube fights. All of these "experts" and after the initial breaking of information comes a quick slide of conformity of information. Trestman starts by saying one thing, Emery states another, then they all get on script and the "experts" repeat it as rote. Even the "smarter" guys in the room seem compelled to repeat what they are being told. So if they're holding back, I have to ask more for the "who" than the "why"?

I don't expect the TV guys to get anything because they aren't about delivering substance, and I've come to see the print guys as preferring to choose the press room spread over fearing that a McCaskey is going to threaten their access credentials. I once considered lumping the radio guys in with the latter over the former, only because the medium could support something more than 30 seconds of content until too many got converted to clubhouse bitches. But when a radio station wants to list more experts than positions on either side of the ball it would seem that at least one of them would be willing to step out because they currently don't care about the access and their roster it too deep for the team to care.

The one other thing that comes to mind is that maybe it wasn't so much about the brawl but Bennett giving a less than enlightened response to the coach who wants to grow his football. Its still a game where words don't mean shit if you can't hit or take a hit, and a coach's philosophy on life as football and football as life doesn't mean shit if you don't get enough "Ws" to back it up. Even less than shit when the "Ls" come with a big difference in points on the scoreboard.

Not to put too much stock in this first pre-season game but this will be one more reason to watch, as though there is a training camp holdout going on with a player. Except that this isn't about wanting more paper just a matter of showing a little more hustle and being willing to act like the current coachspeak means something without breaking into an uncontrolled smirk when giving it more than a thought.

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