(670 The Score) It's with the utmost solemnity that I can report this: We’ve got Bears-Rams beef. Already! Hell yes.
At first, the "biggest NFL season ever" routine felt forced, but now I get it. There you were, reading about how White Sox slugger Yermín Mercedes is ruining the sanctity of The Great Game, not expecting Bears news to crowd your Tuesday morning. But Bears news doesn’t work like that. Bears news shows up whenever it wants. And the Bears news Tuesday morning came in the form of Instagram Beef, which, honestly, rules. If it can’t be Justin Fields B-roll and it can’t be whatever Jay Cutler’s schtick has turned into at this point, then it might as well be beef on the 'gram. These are the mental reps that Bears coach Matt Nagy stressed so often last week. When the Bears and Rams meet in their season opener on Sept. 12, Chicago receiver Darnell Mooney is going to have to show a Year 2 understanding of how to subtweet Los Angeles star cornerback Jalen Ramsey, because apparently the All-Pro Ramsey has some sort of issue with Mooney.
Nothing consistently lives up to expectations quite like the white-font-on-black-background Instagram story. (My one cent: If Bears fans are guilty of over-valuing one of their young guys, it’s definitely not Mooney.) I've been sitting here for the better part of two hours, constantly refreshing Mooney’s Instagram and finding myself increasingly angry at him for “living his life” and “not immediately addressing a beef that really was manifested by strangers on the bird app.”
OTAs aren’t for another couple weeks and what? We’re supposed to just wait until then for more Bears news? On whose authority? Luckily for us, the Bears’ wide receiver room has more than one guy who knows a thing or two about Posts. Is Ramsey mad that Mooney kinda cooked him on Sunday Night Football last year? Is he calling *Allen Robinson* a No. 2 receiver? That would be an especially rewarding plot twist, IMO. I'm being honest when I say that I hope this turns into a huge thing that lasts most of the summer – maybe even until like, the second or third week of July.
Cam Ellis is a writer for 670 The Score and Audacy Sports. Follow him on Twitter @KingsleyEllis.