BREAKING NEWS: Bears Waive Tank Johnson

SportsWorld · Post #1 » by **SportsWorld** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:11 pm

Just reported on ESPNews.
Not surprising.

SWEVO24 · Post #2 » by **SWEVO24** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:23 pm

Good riddance. He's had his chances. Hurts to lose our second best defensive tackle, especially since our best one is coming off an injury, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

Post #3 » by **Darth Celtic** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:26 pm

yeah, this hurts on the field, but the way he's going, he'll never be on the field anyway. I loved the guy on the field, and our defense will be worse without him, but enough is enough.

Looks like dusty better step up, as I don't want adams starting and getting major mins.

Maybe we pick up a vet guy that gets released during camp.

richard · Post #4 » by **richard** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:38 pm

finally! i was wondering why the bears were keeping him for so long. he was not worth the headaches.

Cliff Levingston · Post #5 » by **Cliff Levingston** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:50 pm

Darth Celtic wrote:Maybe we pick up a vet guy that gets released during camp.

Cliff Levingston hopes so.

Re-signing Ian Scott would've looked pretty good about now. Now we're pretty much down to Harris + Adams + Dvoracek with Idonije able to play passing downs from time to time. Garay is a wildcard.

1 injury could hurt us now.

worthless. · Post #6 » by **worthless.** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:01 pm

Not surprising

Ripcity4life · Post #7 » by **Ripcity4life** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:13 pm

I can understand WHY the Bears released him but i think they pulled the trigger WAY WAY too fast. Why not wait til those Blood tests come in cause they already stood by him going to PRISON. They knew he MIGHT slip but the moment he does they boot him even before the BLood results are in. It's no wonder Briggs wants out of town if they say one thing and then when its tested bail. Angelos is a complete Tool and with a guy like that running things will not be long before the Bears are the Lions.

SportsWorld · Post #8 » by **SportsWorld** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:33 pm

I am beginning to hate Angelo more and more. We have gotten worse since last year not better thanks to his moves. He traded Thomas Jones for basically nothing. He let Tank go too early. He can't get a deal done with Briggs. He just isn't doing anything right except for the draft. Greg Olsen and Garrett Wolfe were 2 great picks.

Good Moves:
Greg Olsen and Garrett Wolfe Picks
Nathan Vasher Extension

Bad Moves:
Trading Jones for nothing
Letting Tank go too early
Letting Benson hold out in his rookie season and doing the same thing with Briggs.

gf2020hotmail · Post #9 » by **gf2020hotmail** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:26 pm

SportsWorld wrote:Bad Moves:
Trading Jones for nothing

I think this does a real disservice to the move Angelo made. TJ was only going to be here for one more year. The Jets had to pay him big money to get him comfortable and happy, otherwise he would have been a rent a player. For an unhappy player, when you look at the move-up and then down, the Bears essentially got Michael Okwo, Corey Graham and probably the 90th pick in the draft next year. With how superb Angelo has been drafting, that's a good haul, especially if Okwo ends up a starter

SportsWorld wrote:Letting Tank go too early

Are you kidding? What possible reason would there be to wait? He's definetly serving the full eight games and he was told that he run out of chances. It's not like he would have trade value of any sort. You lose all type of credibility as an organization if you make a statement like zero tolerance and then fail to back it up.

SportsWorld wrote:Letting Benson hold out in his rookie season and doing the same thing with Briggs.

So are you saying that Angelo should have caved in to Benson? It was only 36 days and he was ready for the season for the most part. Had the Bears given Benson what he wanted, there is virtually no way the bears could have afforded to keep Thomas this past Super Bowl year. Only an idiot caves in when a draft pick is basically demanding a blank check.

SportsWorld · Post #10 » by **SportsWorld** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:33 pm

I think Angelo did let Tank go too early.
He is basically getting waived for going 40 in a 25 which I am sure we have all done more than once.
At least he could have waited until the blood test results come back.
Now I bet Tank will sign with some team in the NFC North (Packers) and they will improve.

WEFFPIM · Post #11 » by **WEFFPIM** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:48 am

Saw this happening about two months ago

NoSkyy · Post #12 » by **NoSkyy** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:21 am

sigh, I will miss Tank Johnson and his crazy name and etc but seriously, out at 3:30 AM, enough is enough and I understand why the team doesn't want to be put in the same category as the Bengals, who have more arrest than I have fingers(close to it at least) or the Titans(who is still waiting on Pacman Jones).

Hopefully Tank cleans his act up and does well in the NFL. I love him as a player.

Hmmmmm, can we pick him off waivers after he served his suspension? I believe in zero tolerance but I also believe in second chances.

Post #13 » by **Darth Celtic** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:24 am

I'm calling it now, he signs with either the lions, vikings, or packers. Count on that.

Post #14 » by **TNBT** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:08 am

I guess you can't argue that Tank hasn't been given a fair shot, so on paper the decision to waive him has merit. On the field, though, we're going to feel this. Harris and Dusty better be ready to go from day 1 or we're going to struggle on the defensive side of the ball.

chibearsfan · Post #15 » by **chibearsfan** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:12 pm

[quote="Cliff Levingston"]-= original quote snipped =-

Cliff Levingston hopes so.

Re-signing Ian Scott would've looked pretty good about now. Now we're pretty much down to Harris + Adams + Dvoracek with Idonije able to play passing downs from time to time. Garay is a wildcard.

1 injury could hurt us now.[/quote]

If thats Tommie, that could create a trickle down effect which could lead to the entire team being affected. I definitely hope we're gonna get a player who's been cut.

TylerB · Post #16 » by **TylerB** » Wed Jul 4, 2007 12:01 am

SportsWorld wrote:I am beginning to hate Angelo more and more. We have gotten worse since last year not better thanks to his moves. He traded Thomas Jones for basically nothing. He let Tank go too early. He can't get a deal done with Briggs. He just isn't doing anything right except for the draft. Greg Olsen and Garrett Wolfe were 2 great picks.

Good Moves:
Greg Olsen and Garrett Wolfe Picks
Nathan Vasher Extension

Bad Moves:
Trading Jones for nothing
Letting Tank go too early
Letting Benson hold out in his rookie season and doing the same thing with Briggs.

Letting Briggs and Benson hold out? Thats just dumb.

He had to let Tank go...too early? A better case can be made that it was too late.

And he didn't trade Jones for nothing, please get a clue.

We traded him for Garrett Wolfe, Kevin Payne and a third round pick in 2008.

Triple_6_Mafia · Post #17 » by **Triple_6_Mafia** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:49 pm

hold outs happen, can't really blame him.

About Tank true, but you've already invested alot on tank, it was stupid too cut him for a speeding ticket after all the other stuff.(Tho it had it's own legs too do that.)

ok, we traded Jones for peanuts, you got a good 3rd Down back/ST player, some guy I've never heard of and a 3 Rounder next year.

Lets get this stragiht, Angelo did NOT get full value for Jones, nor was he going for it he was trading him too make room for Benson, becuase he knew he couldn't resign him too a big contract with Benson still under contract.

Angelo did just get us to a SB apperance, you kind of have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Triple_6_Mafia · Post #18 » by **Triple_6_Mafia** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:27 pm

wow sorry about the triple post..

Triple_6_Mafia · Post #19 » by **Triple_6_Mafia** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:28 pm

wtf..