One wonders if Matt will follow.

Oh yeah, I’d love to have Suggs too… but how many zillion dollars will he cost?

this team could be scary good next year with all the rest and recuperation time they’ll get.

Rookie Brandon Miller from Georgia

I agree (like most of us here) that Suggs is and would be a huge impact player, wherever he plays. But I also think he might not be a good fit for our defense right now. Unless the 3-4 is in our future. Thank God, Marshall should be out when Mora sets up his own staff, so a lot of that can and will change. What kind of defense did Mora run as HC in Atlanta, and/or when he was DC in SF? The one thing I want to see is a guy that will use the scheme that best fits the talent he has, ala Fritz Shurmer. Something no other DC under MH has really ever done.

Back to the players (and on topic) I doubt Suggs will leave Baltimore. Not sure who else they have as a FA, but they’d be foolish to let him go. Same with Peppers, he’ll get the Franchise Tag before Carolina lets him leave. An interesting situation could be brewing in Tennessee though. If the web sites that I’m reading are correct, both Albert Haynesworth and Kyle Vanden Bosch are set to be on the FA market. I can dream about Haynesworth all I want, it doesn;t change 2 facts, 1. Tenn. will not let him leave, and 2. he doesn’t quite fit the TR mold of chartacter guys with his nasty, face stomping mean streak. But geez he would be just what the Doctor ordered to add some size and attitude to our nice guy defense. That brings me to Vanden Bosch, while not in the same league as Peppers or Suggs, he is a better DE than many think. And probably a more realistic option as far as being attainable and affordable than the high end guys like Suggs and Peppers. Other DE’s i see on the list I am using are Chris Canty (dallas) and Igor Olshansky (SD) neither being a true pass rusher at 300 Lbs, or Bert Berry who at 34 is older than Kearney.

There is only 1 guy at either D-line slot I would chance with our top 5 (ish) pick and even then I’m not sure he would be the best value and that is Brian Orakpo, DE Texas One analist says “Brian plays the game like a junk yard dog chasing an auto parts manager over a fence who was trying to steal auto parts. Brian (Junk Yard) Orakpo…I like it!”

Just some things that have been floating around my mind, because I am worried about our pass rush in 2009. Kearney will be 32 -33 years old, he will also miss most of if not all of training camp, and who knows what we’ll get from him afterwards.. Tapp is still only showing flashes, same with Adkins and Lo-Jack well lets just say he better show me something soon.

On of the so called media draft gurus that I read, thought he might be a product of the USC system, and the extreme talent around him. BUT that’s just one guys opinion. I still think its too soon to write him off. No matter how ho-hum underwhelming his rookie season has been so far.