Seymour is a great player. He is also a great player who would have wanted a huge long term contract and who was injured a lot in the past (not a knock, he was injured legitimately and because he got beat on so much).
Sey was not what you call a leader (again, not a knock, his personality was a fierce individualist).
“You can’t just have great coaching and no talent. You’ve got to have both.
This was unwarranted. I'm sure 1st round picks Wilfork and Warren (who is still struggling from injury?) didn't deserve that. throw in a healthy Green, Mike Wright and (whatever happened to Pryor?) and we have good talent at the position.
Obviously, Green and Wright have stepped up before when Sey was injured.
We no longer have Seymour, but neither does anyone else except Oakland.
We have a salary cap, we need to constantly make moves. Mybe we'll need to make moves at LB, DL and the secondaryto change the veteran chemistry, who knows.
In a salary cap world, trading an extremely talented oft injured, expensive player possibly on the downslope (we don't know the future) for a possible top 5 pick is a great move. It would be nice if we could trade a marginal player for a high 1st rounder, but let'slive in the real world.
Scheme, or talent, we have to work around him and the coaching staff needs to step up. We also miss Bru, Vrabel and Rodney, but again, reality. They got old.
Lest we forget the unbiased and non agenda driven football expertise of ron Borges, I give you his reaction to the great pick that was Richard Seymour.
On a day when they could have had impact players David Terrell or Koren Robinson or the second-best tackle in the draft in Kenyatta Walker, they took Georgia defensive tackle Richard Seymour, who had 1 sack last season in the pass-happy SEC and is too tall to play tackle at 6-6 and too slow to play defensive end
