Berrian's Departure May Have Been A Blessing For Briggs

by Adam T on Jul 28, 2008 11:14 AM CDT Comment 7 comments

This one has been making the rounds this morning, but in case some of you haven't seen it, there is a report talking about some free agent signings this off season.

Based off of a Jerry Angelo interview the Bears had resigned to a potentail situation of either Bernard Berrian or Lance Briggs. They were not giving up on either, but had Berrian signed the reported 5-year approximately 30 million dollar contract, they were not sure they'd be able to sign Lance Briggs.

''It would have been Berrian or Briggs,'' Angelo said. ''We made a decision. We tried to do Bernard; didn't work. It's not to say we couldn't have done Lance, but it made it easier.''

How you feel about this goes to your philosophy on football. Some would look at this as bad thing, we have a bad offense and we let our most dangerous threat get away. Others would see this from the stand point of be great on one side of the football and you will always be in the hunt.

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Be dominant on one side of the ball: defense

And you always have a chance.

And in the Bears case… if they can regain that top defense form, and force turnovers again, the turnovers + Devin Hester will give our pathetic offense good field position.

I'm not going to even bother trying to update this sig everyday anymore... that's what the standings column on ESPN is for.
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by SackMan on Jul 28, 2008 11:54 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Berrian really didn't give the team a choice

It’s harmful for the team to have lost their one true deep threat at receiver, but he wasn’t worth what MN was offering him. Receivers are easier to replace than most other positions, and you need a good QB in the first place to take advantage of the real burners.

by Waylon on Jul 28, 2008 12:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

This worked out well.

Briggs is a monster at OLB. I think you have receivers coming up who can match and excel Berrian. I am intriqued by Hester, and I think he will be special in this position as well as returns.Losing Berrian (who wanted too much) to keep Briggs works out well for the Bears. Your defense is the best in the NFL with everyone healthy. Keeping Briggs, imo, is important in keeping it so dominant. Now, just a little more offense…

by coltsfanawalt on Jul 28, 2008 12:43 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

If it was either/or for the same price, I'd let the LB go...

...just because they’ve been drafting his replacement for two years now. But if it was either/or w/ a $10 mil. difference (although it wasn’t, technically, either/or), then yeah, go w/ the cheaper player.

by tyger1147 on Jul 28, 2008 3:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

They made the right move

But does this tie back to the Bears are cheap thing? Because if its true that the team is 13th in salary cap couldn’t we have wrangled out the money to afford both or maybe it would have been too much on future caps? Either way I am not going to complain about keeping one of the better OLBs in the league. Good WRs can be found anywhere.

Bold Prediction: Orton will be the starter in week 1.

by GallopingGhost on Jul 28, 2008 4:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

When will the Bears find one?

hahahahahahahahaha

by tyger1147 on Jul 28, 2008 5:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

gotta think future too

for instance, I think the Vikings will be screwed in a couple of years when they will need to start re-signing guys because they have overspent a lot recently. But then again, maybe you don’t have to think future because the cap might be non existent in 2 years….a scenario i would dread because the Bears (even if they do historically have a cheap side) are pretty good at managing their cap.

by Ando on Jul 28, 2008 11:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs