SHARPER COULD STAY IN THE DIVISION

Safety Darren Sharper spent eight years with the Packers, and then four with the Vikings.

If the pattern holds, he'll spend two with the Bears and then one with the Lions.

Step three could be coming.  Though it widely has been presumed that Sharper will sign with the Saints, Sean Jensen of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports that the Bears are "seriously" interested in Sharper.

On the surface, the fact that the Bears use the same Tampa Two defense that the Vikings employ makes the fit more obvious.  But in recent comments to Jensen, Sharper suggested that it's not his ideal defense.

“Looking back, I was upset I didn’t get as many chances as I would have liked,” he said.  “But I had to take a backseat, to help us out as a defense.  Sometimes, you have to do things for the betterment of the team, and that’s exactly what I did.”

He said that the Tampa Two requires safeties to be "protectors," and he considers himself more of a "playmaker."