THE GOOD: Brandon Marshall (2012-2014) – Y’all have to understand, I grew up in a time when a Chicago Bears wide receiver might as well have not been a thing. The team reception leader was always a running back with less than fifty catches, and Ron Morris would start all year, get 30 catches for 400 yards, and you’d look at it and go, “there is nothing at all wrong with what just happened.” And even after a hundred years and various failed attempts to modernize the Bears, it was still “where receivers go to die,” as once eloquently stated by Muhsin Muhammad. (Moose became one of the most universally hated ex-Bears in history for that, but honestly, I don’t hear a lie.) So even with living memory of Marcus Robinson and Marty Booker, what Brandon Marshall did in 2012 and 2013 was amazing. He was unstoppable, like pre-Raiders Randy Moss or pre-name change Chad Johnson. So much so, in fact, that after three seasons (including 2014, which was the Marc Trestman Implodes the Team year, when no one was any good) he was already in the Bears’ all-time top 10 for receptions and touchdowns, and was about 100 yards shy of hitting the top 10 in yards. For all the idiot Bears fans’ bitching about him being a “locker room cancer,” (NFL Fan Code for “black dude who gives interviews about stuff other than Playing Hard, Praising God, and ‘Rise and Grind’ Nonsense”) Harlon Hill and Johnny Morris are probably the only argument against him being the beast Bears receiver of all time. (Hill famously being a guy who eventually partied his way out of the league, which I’m pretty sure would get Locker Room Cancer status applied to him, had he not been a blond guy with a crew cut. Gonna touch on this so much more the next time receivers come up) But yeah, Marshall was easily the best Bear WR of my lifetime, and I’m legit worried that we shall never see his like again. Continue reading 1990-2017 ALL-TIME TEAM: WIDE RECEIVER X