Chicago Bears Cutting S Chris Harris Makes No Sense
You'll have to forgive me, as I seem to be having trouble tonight. It's been about 36 hours since the Chicago Bears released safety Chris Harris and I just can't wrap my brain around it.
The Bears have issues on defense for sure- particularly at the safety position. However I'm hard pressed to believe the secondary is upgraded without Harris.
Don't forget folks, that we've been down this road before. Harris was the starting safety on the 2006 Bears team that went to the Super Bowl. He was also traded to the Carolina Panthers in the offseason, only to be traded back to the Bears in April of 2010.
So in a Bears secondary that consists of no true #2 cornerback, the oft out of position Brandon Meriweather, the underwhelming Craig Steltz, the inconsistent Major Wright, and the young Chris Conte- General Manager Jerry Angelo decided that releasing Harris now makes the Bears more consistent.
The Bears have issues on defense for sure- particularly at the safety position. However I'm hard pressed to believe the secondary is upgraded without Harris.
Don't forget folks, that we've been down this road before. Harris was the starting safety on the 2006 Bears team that went to the Super Bowl. He was also traded to the Carolina Panthers in the offseason, only to be traded back to the Bears in April of 2010.
So in a Bears secondary that consists of no true #2 cornerback, the oft out of position Brandon Meriweather, the underwhelming Craig Steltz, the inconsistent Major Wright, and the young Chris Conte- General Manager Jerry Angelo decided that releasing Harris now makes the Bears more consistent.
And the stage is set for the move to bite the Bears in the kiester now that the Detroit Lions have claimed him off waivers. That's right kids, he now goes to a team with an emerging defense that will face a Bears offense who can't protect its interception prone quarterback once more this year.
You want to kick my dog while you're here?
This is just another in a long line of needless roster adjustments by Jerry, Lovie, and the other band of idiots in Halas Hall. Don't forget they still have to extend RB Matt Forte- yes, they HAVE to- and deal with LB Lance Briggs wanting a new deal because the big money on his previous deal he signed is over.
Add this to the quarterback finally having enough of Mike Martz's offensive conspiracy to get him called and you have one of the crazier locker rooms in recent memory.
Oy vey.
Maybe Harris wasn't a Hall of Famer. Maybe saying he was the best safety on this roster really isn't that much of a compliment. But the facts are what they are: a suspect secondary just lost its second best player (only to CB Charles Tillman) not to injury or suspension- but to the front office's sheer inability to judge talent.
Last one out, turn out the lights.
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