Former Bear Hints at Likely Cause of Josh Bellamy Tre McBride Fight

By now most Chicago Bears fans know about the Josh Bellamy Tre McBride blowup at Halas Hall last Monday. It started in the wide receivers room before spilling into the hallway in ear shot of the media. Bellamy later explained it was purely a football matter between brothers and he had no regrets over what happened despite the results being that McBride was later cut from the team. Most assumed that would be the end of it. However, a former Bears player decided to pour gasoline on the smoldering flames. Harold Jones-Quartey played safety for the team from 2015 through 2016, starting a number of games. After the Bears made several additions to the position this off-season though, he was eventually cut. This didn't stop him from weighing in on what happened between Bellamy and McBride though. He seems to think it has nothing to do with football at all. In fact it's a far more personal matter.

Josh Bellamy Tre McBride incident about who got cut, not who was wrong

In essence Jones-Quartey is saying Bellamy was making advances on McBride's girlfriend. McBride apparently confronted him about it in the receivers room and things escalated from there. Despite being the wronged party in this story, McBride was the one cut because he instigated the confrontation. Everybody knows the Bears have had a zero tolerance policy for these sorts of things under head coach John Fox and Ryan Pace. Of course there is no conclusive proof to this matter. Not unless Jones-Quartey can produce some sort of evidence to back up his story. At the same time this would explain a lot about why McBride blew up like he did. Perhaps Bellamy got on him about the poor game he had in Philadelphia and wasn't about to take criticism from a guy trying to put moves on his girlfriend. Men have blown up over less.