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I feel like the newest hot button topic with Bears fans is Plaxico Burress. To a degree I understand. I also don’t understand.

Here is what I do understand: this is a Chicago Bears team without a legitimate, veteran, wide receiver presence. It is a Bears team that had no consistent receiver last year, and didn’t find a veteran for that role for this upcoming season. Devin Hester is the closest thing to a number one receiver, and that is one heck of a scary thought. Could Hester be that guy, maybe. Is he for sure that guy, no one can convince me that he is that guy for sure. He certainly wasn’t that solid, game in, game out, number one last year. So, to say the least, we at bare minimum have serious question marks at that position going into this season.

Here is what I don’t understand. Why in the world would Plaxico be the guy Chicago “has to have”. Is Plax good, oh yeah, he’s more than good, he is top 10 in the league good. Is he consistent, yep. Will he play more than six games this upcoming season, I have my doubts.

Roger Goodell is not going to look lightly upon Burress’s not so recent actions. The first thing to figure out is if he will actually be a free man come this fall. I think there are some serious doubts about whether that will even be the case. After all of that is solved, then he will have to deal with Commissioner Goodell in his own personal hall of justice. Neither one of those issues should be taken lightly.

If all of those things happen to come out in Burress’s favor-which I can tell you right now, they will not-then he will be a hot commodity on the free agent market. Let’s just say he doesn’t go to jail, and he has to serve a 5 game suspension. I think that is a completely reasonable, conservative guestimation. It would still be my contention that the Bears should want nothing to do with the guy.

Why, you may ask? Because even if he doesn’t go to jail, he will at least be on probation. There is no way that that guy will be able to handle not getting into trouble during a lengthy probationary period. The guy doesn’t have it in him. He has proven over and over to be…well..let’s just say, not the sharpest tool in the shed. He violated multiple Giants team rules, had more than one traffic incident that was simply puzzling, and after shooting himself he dragged his teammate into the offense by convincing him to lie under oath about the brilliant self inflicted wound incident.

I would say the three most successful teams of the past 5 years are the Colts, Patriots, and Steelers. Two teams of which would never put up with this kind of garbage, and one that let him walk away from them, only to win 2 Superbowls without him.

I think the precedent this would set would be Bengalesque, if you will. Do I need to say more than that? So, after weighing what Chicago would get, with what they would have to put up with, I think the answer is clear. No Plax, we don’t want you. Go ruin somebody else’s chances…how about Dallas maybe? They could use a new Pacman.

-Bearsaddict
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