saintswhodi

It\'s called the benfit of the doubt. I am the biggest critic of the front office, but you obviously have not been listening to me. I said we trade Joe if and only if we were making a move for a replacement, such as trading for Minny\'s #7 and Mike Williams. I never said blindly trade Joe with no back-up plan. Now I know it would never happen, but that\'s what I would do, not the team.

Howard played under the tag last season cause A) Will Smith was a rookie and B) sullivan was in the process of showing us how much of a bust first round picks could be. We know Will Smith is the real deal, thus Howard playing under the franchise tag is no longer acceptable. We have 2 starters at DE already, show me a team in the league that has three STARTERS at one position. I don\'t think there would be many, if any. It\'s not reality in the cap era. I do believe we will see headway on deals for Bentley and Deuce once Howard is traded. I would bet on it. That\'s a good thing no? Do we want to be franchising Deuce next year like Indy and Seattle have had to do? I should think not.



[Edited on 15/3/2005 by saintswhodi]