Sometimes the deal you don’t make is the BEST DEAL…. LOL @ Giants

[*FreeFua*]

There always seemed to be a excuse for Burns and the lack of sacks

At this point there isn’t an excuse left. We’ve seen him in a 4-3. We’ve seen him in a 3-4. We’ve seen him partnered up with a better pure pass rusher (Reddick). We’ve now seen him on a NY team with a very solid front 4. 

Burns is who he is. Would be the greatest touch football edge rusher in history if there was such a league but there’s not. He makes the odd splash and outside of that he’s a bit of a liability. 

The most annoying part of passing on the Rams trade is that they ended up with a guy in Jared Verse who is a better version of Brian Burns with a pick that should’ve been ours

[Gapanthersfan]

1 hour ago, TheBigKat said:

We don’t know what transpired there. That wasn’t Dan’s final call to make

This. 

 

[WhoKnows]

51 minutes ago, *FreeFua* said:

There always seemed to be a excuse for Burns and the lack of sacks

At this point there isn’t an excuse left. We’ve seen him in a 4-3. We’ve seen him in a 3-4. We’ve seen him partnered up with a better pure pass rusher (Reddick). We’ve now seen him on a NY team with a very solid front 4. 

Burns is who he is. Would be the greatest touch football edge rusher in history if there was such a league but there’s not. He makes the odd splash and outside of that he’s a bit of a liability. 

The most annoying part of passing on the Rams trade is that they ended up with a guy in Jared Verse who is a better version of Brian Burns with a pick that should’ve been ours

Still boggles my mind that people couldn’t see how good that deal was. We laid out all the picks and cap savings and still some people said they’d rather have Burns. SMH.

Burns

or

Hunt + Lewis for the same cost/cap, Avila (G Rams took, probably don't sign Lewis), Verse (DE Rams took) and of course their 2025 1st (tankathon has Shavon Revel Jr CB).

Still amazes me how much people overrate our players. Franchise changing trade we declined to get a complimentary RB for Chuba.

[OneBadCat]

Burns is just too light and doesn’t have the muscle and aggression. He likes the agility aspect of pass rushing but can’t take getting punched in the face and taken head on.

Peppers faced some similar criticism at times. But he blocked FGs, consistently got sacks, could play spy, LB, and get interceptions. 

[falconlynx]

I wanted to keep Burns. I was definitely wrong. Many of y’all were right on. 

[strato]

45 minutes ago, falconlynx said:

I wanted to keep Burns. I was definitely wrong. Many of y’all were right on. 

It wasn't that he sucked it was more that he sucked for that kind of money. 

[csx]

4 hours ago, WhoKnows said:

Kudos to Morgan? I’d give him kudos if he didn’t agree with Fitterer to not trade him to the Rams. He made lemonade from the lemon, but we were offered filet mignon.

You don't know what they did or did not agree on.

[ClawOn]

4 hours ago, TheBigKat said:

We don’t know what transpired there. That wasn’t Dan’s final call to make

Better than 50/50 Dan said to take it.  Pure speculation of course. 

[kungfoodude]

8 hours ago, strato said:

It wasn't that he sucked it was more that he sucked for that kind of money. 

He is genuinely much closer to being a $10 mil pass rusher than a $30 mil pass rusher.

[Khyber53]

Everyone fell in love with Brian Burns that first time he got a sack for us and dropped into the Spider-man pose, myself included.

Then as the seasons went by, almost all of us realized that Brian was understrength and could be handled if you could get a square hit on him right off the mark, or could re-direct him around the QB. He was fast and bendy but that was about it. 

Truthfully, he would have been an excellent situational pass rusher but he really didn't have the oomph to be an Edge1 or full-time Edge2. 

But that Spider-man pose... that made him a lot of fans, including the GMs office at NYG.

Good luck to him, but we shoulda sent him to the Rams a year earlier.

[hepcat]

14 hours ago, uncfan888 said:

Nah the best deal would have been getting a haul of picks from the rams

Still can’t believe Fitterer didn’t accept that trade. What a moron. 

[strato]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

He is genuinely much closer to being a $10 mil pass rusher than a $30 mil pass rusher.

Because one dimensional. 

edit: that Spiderman, he was talking that poo when we picked him I thought it was bullshit then. But I gave comic books up with puberty, basically.

Edited November 26, 2024 by strato

[electro's horse]

Lmao the giants let Saquan Barkley walk and put the whole thing on hbo 

[kungfoodude]

16 minutes ago, strato said:

Because one dimensional. 

edit: that Spiderman, he was talking that poo when we picked him I thought it was bullshit then. But I gave comic books up with puberty, basically.

Yeah and although he is still a top 15 pass rusher, he just isn't going to ever be a truly elite guy.