The Bears will (probably) be Fine without Alex Brown

…. all over again ? Well lets first reference Mule Trains post from another thread ….

Idonije is a DE He’s been both a DT and a DE in his career. His numbers last year as a DT were outstanding. His move to Left DE fits perfectly with the kind of player he is: big (6’7", ~290 lbs) and a great rusher (for a DT). This is a perfect match for a DE opposite Peppers. Alex Brown has always been a Right DE. At 6’3" , 260 lbs, he is not ideal for the LDE position. Even though he has always been a high character, high motor, all around good RDE, I do not think that will apply to LDE. Izzy is the better pick for that position.

On obvious passing downs, Mark Anderson will play some LDE and Izzy will move over and rush from the DT position next to Tommie. MA will probably see 3rd down duties and spell Peppers for a series or 2 a game at RDE. Between Izzy, Peppers, and Mark Anderson you will see (out of roughly 1,000 defensive snaps) Peppers get about 750-800 (he had 806 last year), Izzy get about 6-700, 500 at DE and the rest at DT, and MA to get about 5-600 snaps (521 last year). That leaves a couple hundred between Melton/Gilbert

As you can see the players we still have can play as well , if not better , than Brown .

To further the point T-Train brings us the stats to support that Izzy and Anderson will provide the same numbers as AB , if not better numbers ……….

based on profootballfocus.com’s rating system. As far as stats, well……..over the past 2 years……..

AB 1675 snaps 12 Sacks 22 Hurries 45 pressures

Izzy 814 snaps 6 sacks 10 hurries 25 Pressures

MA 1012 snaps 4.5 Sacks 9 Hurries 29 Pressures

Here’s what that means…….

Sacks AB: 1 per every 140 snaps. Izzy 1/136 snaps MA 1/225

Hurries AB: 1/76 Izzy: 1/81 MA: 1/112

Pressures AB 1/37 Izzy 1/32 MA 1/35

Now, totaling sacks, hurries and pressures, to get a QB harassment ratio AB 1/21 Izzy 1/20 MA 1/24

So Izzy harasses the QB (and sacks the QB) more often per snap. Now, he has a large sample to work with, so it’s not like taking 20 snaps and comparing them to 1700.

This provides some solid stats that say while AB was a good player and person for us that Mark Anderson and Izzy could actually provide better numbers than Brown or at the very least the same stats .

The next point here is that Alex Brown was not worth 10.5 million dollars over the next two seasons . Hes a solid player and sorry to say it but soild ain’t worth that much . He got what he was worth from the Saints …… which was half of what he made as a Bear . As for the notion that we’ve cut him for nothing if the money doesn’t go for another player is just ludacris . We cut him to save 10.5 million that will not count aginest next years cap . The uncapped year provided a perfect opportunity to get rid of large player salaries that didn’t match the production level and thats what we did . AB made to much money for average production , as did Nathan Vasher . So really this was a good business move as well as a good player personnel move . And let me state this again , I loved Alex Brown as a player for us . He was a great team type guy for us for many years and in my mind will always be a Bear . But his play didn’t match his pay period .

Sorry for the long winded post but it all needed to be here as solid evidence .