No Interest In Tank Johnson
Filed under: Bears, Chicago, NFL Free Agency
Shortly after Tank Johnson was released by the Chicago Bears, he said this:
“I will move on to look at another opportunity with another NFL team and make the most of the opportunity when it comes.”
Well, training camps are open around the NFL, and the opportunity hasn’t come. Johnson is an unrestricted free agent, free to sign with any team in the league, and he hasn’t. The logical inference from that is that there’s not a single NFL team that wants to put up with him.
If the Bears’ decision to cut Johnson really were as wrongheaded as the team’s critics say it was, one of the 31 other teams would have signed him. That none of them has shows that he wasn’t fired for speeding; he was fired because his lack of respect for coaches and refusal to follow team and league rules makes him more trouble than he’s worth.
Johnson has been suspended eight games by the NFL, but he can’t begin serving that eight-game suspension until he’s on a roster. There’s a good chance that he’ll never be on a roster and never play another down in the NFL.