NFL Network: Bears' Briggs, 31st Pick for Skins' 6th Pick?

[wushawn]

i swear dude, our offseasons are like never ending nightmares. everytime i think we are heading in the right direction with our moves, our fo has a flippin brain fart and thinks up this non-sence. if this happens, forget just next season, we are setting back our team like 5 years!!! how r we gonna completly not pay attention to our glaring needs, i mean tiki "today" barber ran like 200 yards and 3 td's the last game we played...RIGHT UP THE GUT!!! what the hell is another outside linebaker gonna do to fix that? i cant take this anymore. i mean this site is for the knowlegeable fan right? WE ALL AGREE THIS IS BAD!!! can we do anything to stop this? theres gotta be something, i cant sit by and watch my team make another bad decision. its almost like having another little sister dude

[SmootSmack]

Ok, so let's step back and look at this trade. I don't have a problem with getting Briggs, and drop from #6 to #31 may not be a total disaster if someone is there at D-Line (I know they have shown interest in Quentin Moses, but #31 may be a little high for him)

But a.) we need more picks and b.) are we committed to Rocky or not?

But does anyone else find it weird that Snyder would even comment at all?

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Ok, so let's step back and look at this trade. I don't have a problem with getting Briggs, and drop from #6 to #31 may not be a total disaster if someone is there at D-Line (I know they have shown interest in Quentin Moses, but #31 may be a little high for him)

But a.) we need more picks and b.) are we committed to Rocky or not?

But does anyone else find it weird that Snyder would even comment at all?

Yes, if he did comment it seems that he wouldn't really be interested.

[Rajmahal33]

Originally Posted by wushawn

can we do anything to stop this? theres gotta be something, i cant sit by and watch my team make another bad decision. its almost like having another little sister dude

haha man that's right on. The FO is like a self-deprecating girl who chases some guy even though she knows he is gonna screw her

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

We definately need more picks, it appears that we are not comitted to Rocky at all, and this whole thing is strange and incredibly aggravating.

[bigSkinsfan61]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

We definately need more picks, it appears that we are not comitted to Rocky at all, and this whole thing is strange and incredibly aggravating.

Yea what he said....I really wanna believe this is all a bad dream. Maybe all of us will wake up and realize that this rumor never started. kinda like in that bullsh&t tv series, from that bullsh&t hick town ,Big D!!! . Jr never got shot. Elvis is still alive , and hanging out with jimi hendrix , janis joplin, jim morrison, ray charles, Please ...Won't somebody tell me this isn't true....Its just gotta be a really Bad dream

[Luxorreb]

Still don't believe it...

[wilsowilso]

Not worried at all. This is a bad trade. We might have overpaid recentley with regards to draft picks, but this is just silly. Snyder does not make these calls anymore. Everybody in the organization has been told to act crazy and no one has a clue what we are doing.

[TenandSix:Unacceptable]

Linebacker? Please. Remember when we had the best LB corp in the world with LaVar, Trotter and Armstead? Linebackers can be had. Why not just wait a year if you really want Briggs anyway? Isn't he signed to a one year contract? If JG pulls the trigger on this deal he has truly lost it.

[TenandSix:Unacceptable]

Hey WilsoWilso,

What's up bro?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

SC,

It's not just the trade values that people are concerned with (and I think that there are reasons to be concerned), it is also the fact that the D-line is our biggest area of need, but Briggs doesn't play DE or DT.

On a related note, I think people are concerned that a great DT/DE is worth more than a great OLB to any defense. Granted, Briggs is a proven OLB whereas draft prospects are not, but Briggs might look a little better in Chi-town than he would in D.C. given the talent he is surrounded by in Chicago. So, scheme issues aside, how good will Briggs be (or appear) on a team with less talented company? Who knows.

I think people are also concerned about Briggs' contract demands. Briggs is likely seeking more than $15M in guaranteed money on a deal averaging about $6-$7M per year. Vernon Davis, last year's 6th overall pick, got a 5 year $23M deal, so we're probably looking at a 5 year deal worth no more $30M this year for a DT/DE (who, in FA, are a lot pricier than DTs/DEs).

Finally, I think people are miffed because they expected us to trade down from the 6th pick to acquire a 2nd or 3rd rounder. By trading for Briggs, we obviously lose out on such a swap (assuming it would have been available).

[djnemo65]

Briggs is a great player, but I think the reason that people are reacting as negatively as they are is that this deal represents another attempt to shortcut the draft process by bringing in guys who were groomed in other people's systems. It appeared that we finally had learned our lesson and were committed to maximizing both this and future drafts, and then we here that, once again, we are interested in bringing in the next big name. If we are going to drop that far down in draft position it should not be to add another probowler to maybe our deepest position, but to pick up later round picks who can provide the depth that we so sorely lack.

I can't help but think there is something very fishy here, and I will be shocked if this actually happens. But if it does, well, here we go again.

[Big C]

we still have a first round pick though if it happens, so instead of getting just 1 player at 6 we get a pro bowler who is in his prime and a low first round pick. i think a lot of people are reacting poorly because they are excited about the draft and want to see us have a high pick, or have their hearts set on trading down. this trade wouldnt be as bad as its made out to be. there are tons of good DE's in this draft, and from what ive heard from sirius nfl radio good prospects at DE can be had later on in the 1st round and even the 2nd round. they even said the DE prospects are all very similar throughout the top part

[offiss]

I hope it goes through as reported so I can once again say I was right!

The very fact that this trade has so much as an once of truth to it just shows how utterly stupid Gibbs and co. truely are. They have learned absolutly nothing from the AA signing last off season, we are not talking about Lawerence Taylor or Sean Merriman here, [who we could have drafted if we had half a brain] we are talking about a good LB in a system that is designed to accent his production, Lovey is very good at this as we discovered with AA, and here we are on the verge of doing it again, the funny thing is if the player we just had to have last draft Rocky, [no relation to Stallone] had been drafted by the Bears we would probably be talking about possible rookie of the year honors for him on defense.

Just the fact that there is a rumor like this out there makes us look like what we are, the laughing stock of the NFL. Gibbs on the other hand needs to see a Psychiatrist, because he is off the wall crazy to make any kind of deal for a LB that will cost us what little draft picks we have, let alone one that will cost us our #6 pick.

This rumor just can't be true, there is no way that they could be that stupid!

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by offiss

I hope it goes through as reported so I can once again say I was right!

Even when you're wrong you still find some way to say you're right. I hope the trade doesn't go through. Not so I can say "Hey Grim21Reaper and I are right, the team is making smart decisions this offseason," but because it's the best move for the team in my opinion. I guess being right or wrong doesn't seem to matter as much to some of us as it does to others