lumm0x

After reading today that Lance Briggs has declared he's played his last snap with the Bears and will hold out the season if Chicago fails to trade his rights, I got to thinking...

By declaring this he has seriously reduced the Bears leverage in any trade since teams know they are between a rock and a hard place. I realize we have Fujita and Shanle at the outside positions, but Briggs is a huge upgrade over Shanle.

And another Bears name is on the tail end of his rookie contract- Nathan Vasher.

My offering is that we trade our 1st round pick, 3rd round pick and Scott Shanle to the Bears for Lance Briggs and Nathan Vasher. We suddenly have a very pleasing LBing corp, a starting CB to play opposite McKenzie and we can use our 2nd round pick on the best TE, DT or CB at the time. Chances are we are not gonna draft a guy as good as Vasher will be out of the gate with the 1st rounder. All we need to do is add a SS in either Kaesviharn or Hamlin and we have a darn solid defense. I don't see a weak point in our defense suddenly.

Thoughts?