Excellent job defending his roster selections during his press conference today!
So, Mike, why'd you choose Briggs for the 53-man?
"He's young, he has talent and going forward we just want to see him continue to develop. . . . He's still raw and we just have to work with it"
Hmm, OK, so why didn't Bear make it?
"When you look at Bear, he's a quality young man. I just think for him it's a matter of getting used to the speed of the NFL. Just getting used to seeing guys who are big and fast and coming at you, and you have to block them."
Hmm, well that sounds like a little bit of a contradiction, but OK. What about Kory Sheets?
"I think certainly he did some nice things, but what we wanted to do and keep focus of is we wanted to have the 53 guys who really gave us the best opportunity to win."
Weelll, wouldn't you agree that keeping a young, talented running back on a team whose strategy is to run the ball over 50% of the time on offense would be more valuable than keeping a 9th LB who probably won't see much playing time?
Here's what I'm seeing early on: young offensive player who shows promise but has rough edges: "needs to take some time and let the game slow down. Come back later" Young defensive player who shows promise but has rough edges: "well, we really like what we've seen and we think we can work with him"
Shit.
I don't mean to overreact here, but this is getting into SSDD territory with Mr Singletary. Offense doesn't exist, screw the offense. We'll keep enough guys to field an offense, but we'll keep 7 defensive linemen 9 linebackers, and 5 safeties, at the expense of a fullback and blocking TE, because who needs a blocking tight end in a run-first offense, anyways? Oh, and screw that young, fast, powerful runner. He can't help us win, but a 9th linebacker sure can!
Argh.
