Expressed in the trendy, 140-character-or-less form of communication preferred by the Bears and Bengals last week:
@Ochocinco -- You should've told Ced to keep his mouth shut. Child, please. Everybody knows the Bears' D plays better angry.
Back to the Tweet-free zone, if the Bears' defense responds as expected Sunday to Cedric Benson casting aspersions on his former employer, he will have done what he rarely did in Chicago. That is, contribute to a Bears victory.
The stat sheet showing Benson as the NFL's third-leading rusher convinced many he had changed since he left Halas Hall. Then Benson opened his mouth.
It revealed only the uniform is different. The man inside sounded familiarly lame.
Benson whined about the Bears organization spreading...
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