Originally posted by cciowa:
of course this is the right answer.for some reason some forget we have aldon smith ready to take that starting spot. we can find a nice rookie as a pass rusher who can set and learn behind aldon or maybe get lucky and he can contribute right away. replacing rogers is much harder and more expensive than brooks. Plus brooks is not worth 8 million dollars a year. d niner is right, as he usually is
definitely agree that 8 million is more than we can pay for Brooks. and the cost is what will really determine all of this. but just taking that out of the equation for a minute, and looking purely at the effect each player would have on the overall defense, I think a Brooks-Aldon OLB duo is
much better than Aldon-Haralson, and will make up for the drop off from Rogers-Brown to Brown-Culliver.