{"id":10803,"date":"2014-08-05T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10803"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:46:50","slug":"bears-suspend-martellus-bennett-following-scuffle-with-kyle-fuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/05\/bears-suspend-martellus-bennett-following-scuffle-with-kyle-fuller\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears suspend Martellus Bennett following scuffle with Kyle Fuller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/martellusbennett.jpg\" alt=\"martellusbennett\" width=\"594\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6820\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/martellusbennett.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/martellusbennett-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/11\/martellusbennett-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nChicago Bears general manager Phil Emery announced on Tuesday that the team has suspended tight end Martellus Bennett indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. <\/p>\n<p>Bennett was involved in a scuffle with rookie Kyle Fuller on Tuesday. Moments later, receiver Brandon Marshall had some words for Bennett. They were broken up by running back Matt Forte and defensive end Lamarr Houston. At that point Monday&#8217;s practice was ended.<\/p>\n<p><script height=\"433px\" width=\"603px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=4441ed2a84e74b66b60ce980f20deb84&#038;ec=hvNW9mbzruGKb0v-HmCVsJ3XykxJgy-k\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Under CBA rules, disciple for conduct detrimental to the team calls for a maximum fine of one-week salary and\/or a four-week unpaid suspension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery single play I\u2019m scratching and fighting for everything. Same way I play every single day. I play hard. I go hard every single day. I\u2019m probably one of the most violent people on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s practice. Practice is practice. I know I sound like Allen Iverson right now, but at the end of the day it\u2019s practice. In practice, (stuff) happens. You learn from it, that\u2019s why you practice. You learn from things that happen in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery announced on Tuesday that the team has suspended tight end Martellus Bennett indefinitely for conduct detrimental to the team. Bennett was involved in a scuffle with rookie Kyle Fuller on Tuesday. Moments later, receiver Brandon Marshall had some words for Bennett. They were broken up by running back Matt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[36,426,143,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-chicago-bears","tag-front","tag-martellus-bennett","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10804,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10803\/revisions\/10804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}