What is your main gripe with the proposed Briggs deal?

[12thMan]

Good thread.

First off, there are a few things that could be perceived to be absolutely right about this trade. For one, Briggs is a good linebacker. I'll get back to that in just a minute. Secondly, he's young and by all accounts, we'll still have a pick later in the first round. No biggie, right?

That being said, I still don't like the trade. I said Briggs was good, but he's not great as some might believe. I think you can plug most good linebackers behind that defensive line of Chicago's along with Urlacher, and come out with a stud linebacker. My thing with Briggs is and this trade, if he's not amazing then we have no business scuttling the sixth pick to the Bears.

Secondly, the cap ramifications will probably tie our hands some with negotiating with some of our 'core' guys. Which leads me to my next point, exactly what is a core Skin these days anyway? I'm sick and tired of hearing Joe Gibbs stand at that damn podium with those three (I'm about to get banned!) dusty Super Bowl trophies, talk about how we value this guy and that guy, and turn right around and pluck the next darling that will supposedly turn this franchise around. I'm not buying it.

We can't continue tell Redskins fans to be patient while at the same time importing high priced talent and creating an atmoshere of high expecations! It just doesn't work that way. This trade or aquisition will have a rippling effect.

Hey, if we draft Rocky McIntosh in the second round last year then we need to live or die with his ass on the outside this year. Plain and simple. It seems to me, we have this conditional committment to the guys we draft.