[Chicago Sun-Times] Mike Brown could find some familiar faces to work with this season, but they won’t be at Halas Hall.
The Kansas City Chiefs are bringing in the veteran safety for a visit today, according to a league source, in a move that would reunite him with first-year head coach Todd Haley, who was the Bears’ receivers coach from 2001 to 2003.
The Bears let Brown’s contract expire, and he has been a free agent for three months. Brown told another source he is motivated to prove he remains a starting-caliber player. His injury history includes a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the season opener at San Diego in 2007.
Brown, 31, played his final game for the Bears on Dec. 22 against Green Bay before he was placed on injured reserve for the fourth time in five seasons. While injuries kept him out of 44 games over the last five seasons, Brown made 15 starts in 2008 and had 101 tackles, the third-highest total in his career and the most since 2002.
Mike Brown is getting up there in age… but he would be a great veteran addition to our defense, mostly due to his intelligence on the field & I think he still has some left in the tank. He was injured for a couple of years, so he wasn’t getting beat up on the field. This would be a very patriot-like move. I am all for it! Mike Brown plays hard!!!
Comment by Mr. Wood — June 3, 2009 @ 4:39 pm
These coaches don’t seam to have a lot of faith in Page and Pollard. Took them forever to sign Page.
Comment by David in VA — June 3, 2009 @ 8:59 pm
Page is actually the one who took his time, because he was an unrestricted free agent he could’ve signed with someone else for more.
But M.Brown could really be an impact guy for us, if you remember in Arizona that defense liked to use 3 safties in passing situations, which caused a lot of INT’s in the playoffs.
On top of that he could help groom some of the younger DB’s that we’ve drafted in the last couple of years. If we can get this guy for cheap, which we should, this would be a great signing for Pioli/Haley and the Chiefs.
Comment by KC111110 — June 5, 2009 @ 9:16 am
Dept is something that we have lacked. This would be great for us. The more, the merrier.
Comment by zyker — June 5, 2009 @ 9:43 pm
Bernard Pollard is my favorite Defensive player and he just keeps getting better every year so hopefully the Coaches do have faith in him and Page as well. I would hate to see Pollard lose the starting job just because of some other player having more experience than Pollard.
Comment by Stich — June 6, 2009 @ 2:49 pm