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Bearsโ€™ Lamarr Houston says Aaron Rodgersโ€™ championship belt gets on his nerves

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Bears linebacker Lamarr Houston is spicing up the offseason with a little trash talk aimed at Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Asked about Rodgers on ESPN today, Houston acknowledged heโ€™s a good player but said he doesnโ€™t like him as a person and especially doesnโ€™t like his attitude, exemplified by his trademark celebration of pretending to put a championship belt around his waist.

โ€œHeโ€™s a little arrogant for me. Heโ€™s a little too arrogant,โ€ Houston said. โ€œHeโ€™s a cheesehead. Iโ€™m a Bear. Heโ€™s a cheesehead. But I have a lot of respect for his game, I will say that. Heโ€™s a great quarterback. As a player, I have a lot of respect for him but the whole championship belt thing kind of gets on my nerves.โ€

Houston might not be the best one to talk about the way other players celebrate, considering that he once suffered a season-ending knee injury while celebrating a sack late in the fourth quarter of a blowout loss. But Houston has taken shots at Rodgers before, most notably after the Bears beat the Packers on Thanksgiving, when Houston sacked Rodgers during the game and said afterward, โ€œI really donโ€™t like that guy.โ€

I believe the Bear loss on Thanksgiving was the game the wheels finally came off Clements wagon. GB averaged 6.3 yards / carry in that game. Ran for 177 yards. All on just 28 running plays. 28. 28 effing runs. And 4 of those were AR scrambles. So it's actually only 24 runs. 24. 24!

Now maybe Eddies physical condition played a part in that. But Starks only had 7 carries. And he was averaging 5.6 yards per carry. Eddie averaged 6.2. That game was probably the bottom of the barrel for AR and the passing game as well in 2015. Man did they look lost.  

But that game is a really good example of the coaching staff ****ing their their own team out of what should have been a fairly easy win by ditching the running game trying to force feed something that was clearly broken. Not MM's best moment. 

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Things are getting a little testy at Chicago Bears Training Camp with repeated fights.... Jay Cutler called his team "dumb". He may have a point... - Radio Joe

Jay Cutler calls the Bears 'a dumb team' after repeated training camp fights

The Bears are dumb. Not because of their coaching staff or their collective football IQ. They're dumb because of their tendency to fight during training camp.

That's not coming from me. That's coming from the Bears' own quarterback, Jay Cutler.

"Now we're getting to the point where we're just kind of being a dumb team," Cutler said, per CBS Chicago. "So we've got to find that fine line of when we're being tough and when we're being dumb. I think we're right there on that edge, so now we kind have to start dialing it back and getting ready for games."

According to CBS Chicago, offensive lineman Ted Larsen has been involved in four fights this offseason. At Solider Field during Bears Family Fest on Saturday, the offense and defense were involved in an ugly altercation that looked like this, as CBS Chicago's Chris Emma reported:

Bears offensive lineman Ted Larsen grabbed linebacker Lamin Barrow and threw him down. Dozens of players in navy or white jerseys jumped into the scrums. Kyle Long even sprinted from the opposite side of the field to dive into the pile.

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