No we're getting somewhere. Nice to actually debate moves instead of hand wring about something we have no control over, but I digress.
One of the things that drives me nuts is when people come in a say stuff like Seymour gonna be replaced by Pryor/Brace and therefore the trade is hidious for the loss we're gonna feel because the drop from player 1 to 2. That is fairly such one demential thinking.
I totally agree that BB saw something he REALLY liked in Pryor/Brace.
It has to do with what BB's intentions are with his D line. We're OBVIOUSLY changing to a 4-3 base, so that means our personnel is now judged on how they project into a 4-3 base (not a 3-4). Personally, I think JG project's better on the end in a 4-3, then he does as Sey's replacement in a 3-4. Notice how I compared JG to JG and not JG to RS. You can't to that, it does not work that way. JG in one system, is not exactly the same (he could be, but I doubt it). Taken the same way RS in a 4-3 project's differently then in a 3-4, as does Wilfork and everyone else in the line.
IMO, RS project's as slightly less important in a 4-3 then 3-4 (when you factor in the rest of our personnel), as does Wilfork. I personally think that JG project's a little better in the 4-3 then he did in the 3-4. So the net loss of one player could get offset by the gains in other ones once you factor in the all the moving parts that make up the DL. That is where the development of Pryor or Brace could factor heavily on the "value" of the other parts as a whole. Lets not forget Burgess in all this either, or Wright for that matter.
In fact, I'm willing to bet BB has some mathematical formula that calculates the loss/gain of all the moving parts he has, and he makes decision's from there. If the rumor that both RS and Big Vince were considered pretty much confirms this in my mind.
And before people jump in with X's and O's about how JG projects here or there, based on x/o, STOP....... (I'm just using him as one example, but you can do it right along the line and even back to the LB's too).
Bottom line, NONE of us know exactly what BB is looking to do, except to say that what he's doing this year is totally different then last year. So the VALUE that we place on individual players MEANS d!ck compared to the value that HE places on them.
What we do know, is that BB decided that RS 09, was not valued as highly as unnamed 1st round player 11 (and beyond).
This may be a gamble, but it's not even remotely close to the 06 situation with Branch (which was thrust upon him and caught him flatfooted). This was calculated and BB was the driver (and Big Al the victim
).
Exit Question: Vrab's was cast aside pretty quickly (seemingly), we all insisted it was financial...... perhaps not entirely . Now that we have had a (slightly) better idea of what might be to come on D, ask yourself how he would have projected into the 4-3 scheme that appears to be setting up....... and compare it to his salary.
