Aug 8th 2008 12:45AM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: Bears, NFC North
Chris Williams was drafted 14th overall by the Bears. They knew there were back issues, and as a matter of fact, many teams were scared off by these back issues. When the Bears took Williams, here’s who was left on the board that could have helped them: Brandon Albert (yes, hurt now … but he wasn’t at the time and his injury happened in practice for KC … the Bears draft him and a whole different set of circumstances enters the equation), Gosder Cherilus, Joe Flacco, Jeff Otah, Sam Baker, Felix Jones, Rashard Mendenhall, Chris Johnson … okay, you get the point.
Low and behold, Williams hasn’t really done much but jog in practice thus far, and he had surgery tonight.
What an abomination. Things surely can’t get worse, can they?
To respond, the Bears could sign former Bears right tackle Fred Miller off the scrap heap, a desperate move, and subsequently return John Tait to the left side.Oh, please God, no. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse football player than the ‘07 version of Fred Miller in my thirty years on this Earth. That’s not hyperbole. He’s that bad. I actually tried to come up with a nickname like “the human penalty” or some creative spin on calling him a sieve or something the like. The problem is that nothing really does justice to how atrocious he is. When one of the worst O-Lines in football can’t use you, something is wrong.Continue Reading
