Your Sterling Moore & Marcus Harrison Update

I have to give credit to my man Marcus Harrison. After the Pats signed him yesterday, I predicted he wouldn't ever do anything for New England.

Little did I know that he would turn in what has to be the shortest stay in a Patriots uniform (assuming he ever received one) and that's saying something.

Today, New England released Harrison-a defensive tackle-and promoted cornerback Sterling Moore off the practice squad for tomorrow's game vs. the Dallas Cowboys at Gillette Stadium. An undrafted rookie out of SMU, Moore was signed to the practice squad last week and he will likely see time on special teams. He is now one of six cornerbacks on the 53-man roster.

Releasing Harrison probably means that Kyle Love and Albert Haynesworth will both play tomorrow, they are listed as questionable with back injuries. Jerod Mayo (knee) made a surprise appearance at practice yesterday and he's listed as questionable for tomorrow along with BenJarvus Green-Ellis (toe), Leigh Bodden (thumb) and Ras-I Dowling (hip) among others.

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Marcus Harrison Joins The Patriots

So the New England Patriots signed some defensive tackle named Marcus Harrison today. He went to Arkansas and he was a third-round pick of the Chicago Bears in 2008.

The Pats had interest because reportedly defensive lineman Kyle Love hurt his back in practice yesterday. Who knows?

I read that Harrison showed up too fat for training camp twice with the Bears so head coach Lovie Smith and Co. had enough of this tub of goo. Fantastic, hopefully Fat Albert can mentor him here on the finer points of being lazy and useless.

In 37 career games, including just nine starts, Harrison had 43 solo tackles and 12 assists, three sacks and three passes defensed.

To make room for him, cornerback Philip Adams-who was just re-signed yesterday-was released. If this goes how I expect it to, Harrison will be dumped in a week or two and Adams or some other similar no-name bum will take his place. Ah yes, the life at the bottom of an NFL roster.

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