Rethinking Briggs

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by BeastsoftheNFCeast

By having Briggs, our run defense should be significantly bolstered (he had 160 tackles or some ridiculous number like that last year) so we dont have to worry about DT as much. And the DE class this year is ridiculously deep, so we should definately be able to find someone at the 31 spot.

This is the only statement I disagree with. The Bears' defensive tackles are studs -- something we don't have.

In a way, I can see this trade similar to the Alvin Harper deal. The question was whether the Buccaneers could get the same type for performance from him when there wasn't a Pro Bowl quarterback throwing to him, along with a future Hall of Fame wideout on the other side. We all know what happened to Alvin Harper. He was the perfect compliment in a WR tandem that already had a superstar on the other side. I look at this as Exhibit A in how great players make otherwise average players around them great.

The ONLY way I could find a way to like this deal is if Marcus Washington has suffered a Bo Jackson-type career ending injury and/or his salary is getting too big to justify keeping him, or if Williams is planning to go to a 3-4 alignment. In either case, we still desperately need a defensive tackle and an end.

One more thing, I can see this as thread-worthy, if only because most of the others are anti-Briggs. And you're right ... if I hadn't caught the orginal Briggs thread from the beginning, there's no way I would have read 350+ posts to catch up. Once it gets too big, I think there's a large number of members who don't even bother.