Chicago Bears players are taking heat on social media for the team’s most recent loss in Week 5 against the Carolina Panthers. While it’s hard, if not impossible, to defend the hooligans who personally attack players on social media, Bears coach Marc Trestman understands that’s the nature of the business in 2014. He just wants his players to know what happens when they get caught up in defending themselves against what he calls ‘Twitter terrorists’.
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“We talk about it all the time,” Trestman said, per ESPN, “making sure they take a deep breath, making sure they understand they’re representing the team. We talk about it in terms of not being responsive to the Twitter terrorists, so to speak, that are out there, for lack of a better word.”
Trestman’s comments were prompted by Twitter exchanges between defensive end Lamarr Houston and disgruntled Bears fans. Houston told the antsy bunch to ‘eat dirt‘ after taking heat on Twitter.
While Trestman understands the frustrations of his players, he wants to highlight that there are things you can and can’t say on the medium. “I believe in social media and we don’t try to stop our players — this is a generation of players — and we do try to get them to take a deep breath, remind themselves that even though they’re trying to protect their team and their teammates, to do the right thing.”
Frustrations have come to a boil in Bears country where the team fell to 2-3 after losing a heartbreaker to the Panthers in Carolina. The Bears let turnovers kill them once more and it’s up to Trestman to wound a fractured locker room.
“Their heart is in the right place. But again, we’ve got to do the right thing, and we’ll work at that.”
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