As to the reply……They still did not release Brown or Ogunleye in favor of Anderson. That is factually inaccurate. Whether the staff then endorsed Anderson is irrelevent (and what coach in the right mind wouldn’t endorse a player that they intend on sharing starting duties. If you want to know what they really thought, you look at their actions, which were to create a starting committee and try to take Izzy’s pash rush and mix it with Anderson’s strength against the rush. Were they really confident in Anderson as a lone starter, they wouldn’t be running a “DE by committee option”, would they?) as is the fact that Anderson took Brown’s (not Ogunleye’s, that was taken by Peppers) spot. Additionally, they didn’t cut, release or let Ogunleye go. They just didn’t offer him a new contract when he hit FA.

Funny enough, Anderson was released by the Bears, and promptly picked up by the Houston Texans, the same team that signed Ogunleye. Anderson now sits 2nd on the depth chart behind Antoine Smith at LDE while Ogunleye sits third on the depth chart behind Mario Williams and Jesse Nading at LDE. Link that pops. So these “starters” are sitting second and third on someone else’s depth chart.. Additionally, Anderson is sitting higher on that depth chart than Ogunleye. Apparently the Bears weren’t the only team that thought Anderson was better than Ogunleye.