The Kyler Gordon story just continues to get more and more bizarre, and it certainly took a wild turn this week thanks to Brad Biggs and Dan Bernstein. And this part of the story is not getting a tremendous amount of attention anywhere else.
In Brad Biggs’ column, “10 thoughts on the week one win,” he mentioned that he called Montel Fleming, who is the man working with Kyler Gordon away from the facility. He said he answered the phone as “Dr. Moe,” and he discussed Gordon’s treatment plan with Biggs.
Dan Bernstein, formerly of The Score and now of 312 Sports, did an entire podcast discussing Fleming further. You can see that video here.
Between both of them working on this situation, a lot of alarm bells have gone off.
We learned from Biggs that Fleming originally reached out to Jaylon Johnson through Instagram in 2021 and that Johnson was the one who suggested Fleming to Gordon. Since working with Johnson, Johnson has missed 21 games in five seasons.
Through a background check, Bernstein learned that Fleming has no medical degrees of any kind; he has several different aliases (as many as 15) and countless addresses, as he has moved all over the country. Any of the websites you find that he claims he is associated with no longer exist or do not mention him on the site. He also has a criminal record, where Bernstein mentioned seven different “criminal entries” in his background profile.
Fleming told Biggs that the Bears are too focused on the muscles and that Gordon’s issue is his alignment due to overcompensating from his injury. Fleming focuses on myofascia, which he states can help give the body a better range of motion.
Fleming also stated that he works with a chiropractor.
Bernstein did mention that he has no idea if the Bears are aware of Fleming, have vetted and approved Fleming, or generally what their stance is on Gordon (and Johnson) working with him.
I am not a medical professional, and I certainly am not going to pretend to be one. I have no idea if Fleming’s techniques and concepts are sound. Admittedly, they might be. So I admit Fleming may be very good at this because I don’t have the knowledge to know one way or the other.
However, I think it’s very fair to question a man with several aliases who consistently moves around the country, has no evidence anywhere that he has any formal medical training or any kind of medical practice, his websites are a dead end, and he only got involved with the Bears players as a random person who reached out to Jaylon Johnson on social media and not through any medical professionals.
That is a lot of red flags.
So we have Gordon, who is disagreeing with the Chicago Bears medical staff (that has been appropriately educated and trained in their respective fields) and taking the advice of a man who certainly shows a lot of signs of potentially being a charlatan.
When you take all this information into account, you certainly have a better understanding of why Ben Johnson and Ryan Poles have said the things they have said about the situation publicly.
This situation continues to be odd, and it certainly just took a turn down an even stranger path.
Stay tuned. It will be interesting to see where this story goes next.
