Interesting stuff here from Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer regarding the Ray McDonald situation. It gives us a little more insight into the Chicago Bears immediate release of McDonald. Turns out that McDonald was signed to the Bears this winter with a sort of caveat that he was already on double secret probation.
There was to be zero tolerance regarding any malfeasance, and Ray McDonald entered into his Bears contract aware that he had two strikes already against him.
With the sword of Damacles already hanging above him from the start, Ray McDonald knew that if he acted like Ray McDonald usually does he would be jettisoned instantaneously. Of course, the fact that Chicago even signed him in the first place is troubling enough in itself, and speaks volumes about all the toxicity still within the organization, but that’s another story for another time.
As Glazer points out, Bears brass made this swift and decisive maneuver while still out of town for the Memorial Day weekend holiday. They weren’t going to wait until they got back into the office to complete the transaction; it had to be done while on vacation.
Like Wilford Brimley used to say in oatmeal commercials “it’s the right thing to do.”
But then again the fact that a morally repugnant human being such as this was even here in the first place does some damage to GM Ryan Pace’s reputation.
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