Christopher Patriot

I look forward to seeing Brace, evolve into a force god knows it be great to see a combo of Brace, Pryor, Richard, Deaderick, Weston start to take strides in becoming solid defensive lineman. Which may not bode well for Ty Warrens future depending on the results. To those posters who say what Warren the poor guy is injured I have 2 words Richard Seymour.

mgteich

For me, playing one dominating game against one of three worst teams in football is not enough to anoint Brace as the starter. For me, he needs to show more to start in place of Warren and Wright. However, the real convincing is on the Practice field. We will see who starts against Cinci. I suspect that we will see Warren and Wright.

Finally, this is a great debate to be having. We have lost Seymour and Ty Warren and seem to be solid at DE.

convertedpatsfan

While I always thought it was way too early to call Brace a bust, I never thought he'd be our day 1 starter at DE. Considering he got into camp late due to injury or conditioning, was a bit behind everyone else, plus coming off a lackluster first season, I was hoping he'd eventually work his way into the DL rotation.

The last few weeks have exceeded all of my expectations and I'm really glad to hear it's not a serious injury. He looks like he'll be a definite contributor this season, and we'll need him after Ty went down.

signbabybrady

I was at the game on thursday and focused on him for a drive and he definitely seemed to be winning his individual battles, made a tackle or two on the drive. And at one point it seemed like a run was heading right at him and he seemed ready to stuff it and it cutback the other way unfortuanately it was successful play but Brace seemed almost beastly on the play.

Now I might not go as far as you are going as to how good he could be but you may have a better eye than me.

I would like to take this moment to toot my own horn and point out that when I first saw him in TC last year the thing that struck me was that he looked more like Big Sey than Big Vince (length and long arms compared to sout fire plug) and I thought maybe he is a 3-4 DE more than a NT.

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mgteich

I said solid.

I didn't say that we had the best 3-4 DL as we had in the past.

The defensive line is no longer the major strength of the defense, but it is also not the huge weakness it could have been with Ty Warren being injured.

RayClay

+1. Trust your eyes, he's doing a job out there.

The relentless lies and bull for a month led me to believe he was barely ambulatory.

Believe what you see.

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TheComeback

So wait, it's okay jump on Brace and call him a bust, but you bring out the Jump to Conclusions map when people say he'll be good? Or are you making fun of the people who said he would suck?

Deus Irae

Neither Wright nor Warren can hold up against the run. Brace couldn't get on the field last year and now, after an exhibition game in which he was about the only player who showed up, he's supposed to be the solution to both end positions?

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patsfan-1982

i agree he is no starter yet but if he can play he will give some dept to a weak D line that will need as many bodys as they can get