Cut Burnett, sign Weddle

Making room to resign Mosley....dang!

Do you think we’d have a spot for Weddle? He’s safety only, and I think Davis and Edmunds are staying put. If he could play dime LB then yes, but I think our ship has sailed with him as we’re a year or two too late.

We’d have to mess with edmunds in order to play weddle and that’s not appealing to me at this point. I’d like to keep edmunds in a stable spot for a while.

 

Rather sign earl thomas than weddle.

 

im all for thomas too but we wont go for him

 

Yeah. Earl Thomas is just what this team needs. Thomas and AB can flip a coin to see who is going to practice that day. After the coin flip they will both say **** it and skip practice anyway. I want no part of any player who may potentially cause a problem here.

 

you're not wrong lol

 

No No No..
If you think Burnett is bad.. you haven't watched Weddle..
Slower than Molasses..
Would much rather have Mosley if they let him go..

Why not look into Landon Collins or Adrian Amos..both are young but have played in the league for longer than 2 years..

 

He won a sb as the best player on that defense and last yr before he got hurt he was balling out. Stop it..

 

Even my brother, who's the biggest Charger homer there is, was glad to be rid of Weddle. I believe his words were, most overrated, overpaid safety in the league. Words to that affect.

 

Not sure about Weddle. Can’t be too much tread left on tires. Plus we drafted 100 safeties last couple of years. Corner is another story.

 

I guess Baltimore agrees with him. He was not that great here. Rather, he was nowhere near as good as he thought he was.

 

Clearly a comment made by a person that is completely clueless as to what Thomas' situation was or what he meant to his teammates to call him selfish. Last i checked he reported and played from game 1 until his leg got broken. Understandable now that he desired to get a deal done. Theres no indication whatsoever that he was a cancer in his locker room, had any off field incidents, or was anything less than a leader. If you find anything contrary to what i said feel free to point it out. Ill wait...

Oh yeah, before you reply back think Rod Woodson in his last year here and his relationship with management. Was Rod Woodson being a cancer?? Was Rod Woodson being selfish?? Like i said, Ill wait on both counts...

 

hind-sight 20/20 we should have made every effort to sign him 2 years ago.

I don't know if I could do it today unless it was as the dime backer in a support role on the cheap.

 

We will probably re-sign behre.

 

Not quite true, but I'm going off what my brother told me. For instance, I really like all the SB winning, HOF players the Chargers got rid of. You know, the Lance Alworths, Fred Deans, Louie Kelchers, Drew Brees', LaDanian Tomlisons…………..

 

After seeing a lot of tape, I'm not a big fan of having a safety as the "dime linebacker. That was what was done when they didn't have the personnel at ILB for a nickel package.

Polamalu changed it up. Didn't know where he was going to be, and therefore was able to sneak up and make plays in the box.

Safeties aren't as skilled as reading the play from the LB position and attacking gaps like linebackers are.

So not against the dime linebacker in totality, but being obvious in what we are doing was exploited by the teams simply running right at the safety.

Think this is why Burnett is running for the hills.

 

He did play out his contract though and he wasnt complaining about his current contract...he was concerned about not having an extension...why???

If he suffers a career ending injury he loses out on the money he could have made if the Seahawks would have traded him to a team that was willing to extend his career beyond several years. When teams start jacking around with these players future earnings they dont like that. Name one player who hasnt had the same reaction?? I dont understand what you guys dont get about that.

The Seahawks could have done him a solid. Hey, we cant come to terms on a contract agreement and, in all reality, we dont want to sign you beyond this year unless its a franchise tag, but we'll trade you at the very least so you can go somewhere else and play out the rest of your career and get the security you need. Instead the Seahawks, even though they had second round offers, chose not to trade him and we know what happened third or fourth game in. So yeah, he was in his feelings a little bit when he suffered the broken leg.

Im not saying Seahawks didnt have the right to do what they did...business is business, but dont try and make Thomas out to be the exception when he is actually the norm.

 

Didn't he blow off practices and meetings? I was under the impression that the situation was getting worse right up to the point when he was injured.

 

To be honest the inside linebackers the Steelers have aren't good at reading plays and attacking gaps either.