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Originally Posted by #56fanatic
I have sat here and thought should I respond or shouldn't I. the dumber side of me outweighted the reason side, so here goes :
1) I for one have been a strong supporter of the proposed deal. We get a lower 1st round pick, which the FO has said they wanted to do. I believe we could get a quality DT at the bottom of the draft.
2) We get a 26 year old probowl LB. I for one think, outside of Marcus, our LB play was horrible last year.
I have and always will be one of the fans who can't stand the way the FO runs this team. As far as overpaying for marginal talent, or unproven talent. But, when it comes to Briggs he is far from marginal. 26, one of the best as his position, a playmaker, arriving his prime, high motor, plays with a chip on his shoulder. I just feel last year we didn't have that swagger that we had to two previous years. Adding Briggs may get some of that back.
Now, bad side -
1) Rocky will be on the bench. We would have wasted 2 draft picks on him if we sign Briggs.
2) money. Briggs will get BIG money
3) chemistry. We will have to get rid of some players that are good locker room, role player type guys that contribute.
I will be fine with what ever they decide or what ever way this works out. I just feel from a football stand point he is a major upgrade. I think the FO feels Rocky may not be the guy if they are looking at this deal. How they can come to that conclusion so soon, I have no idea. but there has to be something there.
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I think it's purely debatable whether Birggs is actually a major upgrade or not. First off, you can't just isolate his past performance in a vacuum. He was one player on one of the top two or three defenses in the NFL.
Secondly, he has to learn a new system here, and how many times do we have to see a guy excel in one place only to flop somewhere else. Until Briggs comes here and absolutely shows out on the field, I will not be convinced that he's any significant upgrade. I'm done with all of these paper upgrades.