[CBFF] CBFF Blog: Thomas Jones, here's a thought...

[Jim Ferolie]

15? Maybe. But that's the top half of the star linebackers on each team. 
Each team should have a pretty damn good linebacker that gets paid well, 
just like they all need a good CB and an anchor offensive lineman and a 
pass-rushing DE. There are, what, 12 Pro Bowl linebackers each year, so that 
would be about par. Having two of them is undoubtedly a luxury.

What I do know is that Briggs, while he's not perfect, is a special player 
who is a definite playmaker. The knock on him coming out of college, which 
made his draft status drop, was that he was not tough enough, and he has 
definitely shed that.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dwayne" <dwayne at wctc.net>


> Vic,
> Can it be safely said, that having the system he plays in, and playing 
> next
> to Urlacher has made Briggs a pro bowl lb? That Briggs is nothing more 
> than
> a 8 on a scale of 1-10? Briggs is good, but he is not Urlacher good. Could
> it be said that there are maybe 15 other guys in the league that could
> easily put up Biggs's numbers, and in some cases out perform him in our
> system playing along side #54??
>
> Just asking,
> Dwayne