Report: Kyle Long Out for Season
In more negative Chicago Bears news, Kyle Long is reportedly out for the season.
In the last 24 hours, the Chicago Bears suffered a humiliating defeat to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, got word that their star WR Alshon Jeffery had been suspended 4 games, and a report surfaced that the locker room has given up on QB Jay Cutler.
The news cycle couldn’t be worse, so why not pile on with more bad news from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
More bad news for the #Bears: I’m told the MRI has confirmed that star OL Kyle Long is out for the season. Major loss in leadership & play.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) November 14, 2016
At this point, this is almost good news for Long. He’s been playing injured all season, he has a torn labrum in his shoulder, had previously missed some time after being injured against the Green Bay Packers, and suffered what appeared to be a pretty rough ankle injury against Tampa. If there is any silver-lining with this injury, it’s that Long can miss the rest of a lost season and get healthy for 2017.
The injury is just a long list of bad news for Bears’ fans and the franchise in the past day and it has gotten to the point where when you see this news, you just shrug your shoulders.
This is rapidly beginning to feel like a repeat of the 2014 Bears’ season. The 2017 season can’t come fast enough. The 2016 season is officially lost. It’s gotten so bad you start to wonder why anyone had high hopes for this team at all.
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