BradyBranch39

You can't judge the trade based on the stupid contract they gave him way after the trade.

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WhiZa

Not having Solder now would be worse than what we would have gained from any of those players.

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Patsrock

Well he was on the 2007 teams FYI

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patsfaninpa

Laughable. JJ Watt and Von Miller might have helped us win it all last year. Matt Light gets more money thrown his way and returns. We could have gotten our T this spring.

ThatllMoveTheChains!!!

Matt Light reveals decade-long battle with Crohn's - ESPN Boston I highly doubt they could've gotten Light to come back for reasonable money if at all.

VJCPatriot

Can't change history but JJ Watt is the best defensive end in football right now. I think he would have made a big impact on our defense and he could have possibly made an impact on us winning it all in 2011. I mean if Watt batts down a Manning pass or forces him to get rid of the ball a split second too early in that game could have easily spelled the difference in the match.

I don't regret ending up with Solder but I feel that Watt is far and away more of an impact playmaker if we are going to revise history.

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PatsDeb

AGreed. From what I have seen of Oakland it's their atrocious offense that has been the problem, not Seymour or their defense.

BSR

With Scar doing his thing, I think we could have found a viable replacement if it meant picking up one of those guys. You can't coach the level of talent in those defensive players.

BradyFTW!

I hated the trade at the time, because I thought that, with Seymour, we could have won another title in '09 (and/or in '10 if we'd found a way to tag/keep Seymour). People seem to have already forgotten how good he was, but he was pretty much impossible to run on and also generated a credible pass rush at the same time. Once-in-a-generation type talent at his best, and he was still pretty close to his prime.

Over time, I've softened my stance. I still think that there's a >25% chance that this trade cost the Pats a fourth Lombardi, especially when the Ravens knocked us out at home in '09 by attacking where Seymour should have been (and remember, this was a year that a fairly unimposing Jets team went to the AFCCG). That said, if the economic reality was that it was literally impossible to keep both Seymour and Wilfork, then letting Seymour go was the right call. Wilfork's brought his game to a whole new level over the last couple of seasons, and Seymour isn't quite so valuable in the defense that the Pats run these days.

On the Oakland side, I don't see what they're complaining about. Seymour has been a leader and an impact player for them, and they would have whiffed on the pick anyway.

BradyFTW!

You'd rather have Solder than JJ Watt? Seriously?