Pisa Tinoisamoamade it pretty clear when he talked about joining the Bears afterpractice on Wednesday at Halas Hall--he wanted to get to a winningorganization after the St. Louis Rams cut him loose a month ago. TheRams won just five games over the last two seasons combined, and alongwith his familiarity with the coaching staff of the Bears, he saw it asan opportunity to join a team with realistic playoff aspirations.
"Just the chance to be on a winning team is worth it to me,''Tinoisamoa said. "I've been fortunate to get paid in this league andthat was good, but I still had to go home a loser. I'd give all themoney back if I could win again.
"The opportunity to win again. I miss that so much. I want to getback to that. I feel like I've been putting in so much work for solong, I feel like I deserve a good chance to win and a good chance atthe championship."
Bysigning a one-year deal, Tinoisamoa will have the opportunity to hitthe open market at a much better time, when most depth charts are notset. The contract he received is straight forward--Tinoisamoa was givena $500,000 signing bonus. His base pay will be $1 million. The totalvalue of the contract is $1.5 million.
