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[quote=That Guy]isaac bruce.
adoyele.[/quote]

Bruce was signed before free agency.

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[quote=SkinEmAll]Courtney Brown last year.[/quote]

They didn't offer him a lot of money.

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[quote=JWsleep]We seem better at signing then at re-signing--Pierce and Smoot would be the ones that leap to mind...

But when we really target someone, we are pretty good.[/quote]

They chose to let them go. Looking back it was a good move. Smoot is almost as overrated as Lavar and Pierce isn't that much better than Marshall.

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[quote=Grim21Reaper]Bruce was signed before free agency.[/quote]

he was released and on the open market though and the skins made a serious bid for him.

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[quote=Sociofan]Okay. That sounds right. I was thinking that 13 from a LB sounded awfully good.[/quote]

arrington has gotten 11 (though he was a sub rusher of sorts) and peter boulware (ravens) averaged 10 a year as a LB for his first 7 years (including years with 11.5, 10, and 15 sacks). It's possible.

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[quote=That Guy]he was released and on the open market though and the skins made a serious bid for him.[/quote]

Looks like Detroit was the most interested and Bruce is exactly the type of guy that Washington ignored this year.

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[quote=Grim21Reaper]Looks like Detroit was the most interested and Bruce is exactly the type of guy that Washington ignored this year.[/quote]

they didn't ignore bruce though, i think they might have even thought they had him with larry micheals "big announcement tomorrow" statement on his show (that never actually happened... it was a day or two before FA started).

turns out bruce got tons of money and it was a decent non signing.

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our receiver situation is a ton better now by not signing bruce

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[quote=dmek25]our receiver situation is a ton better now by not signing bruce[/quote]

i agree.

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[quote=Grim21Reaper]They chose to let them go. Looking back it was a good move. Smoot is almost as overrated as Lavar and Pierce isn't that much better than Marshall.[/quote]

Yeah, but can you imagine Pierce, Marshall, and Washington all playing at the same time?

Oh wait...that was 2004.

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[quote=GTripp0012]Yeah, but can you imagine Pierce, Marshall, and Washington all playing at the same time?

Oh wait...that was 2004.[/quote]

They played better together than our core of LB'S last year but keep in mind that opponents had a whole offseason to prepare and find weakness's in GW scheme and not to mention we played far better offenses in 05 than 04. Our D is still a beast no matter what anyone says though. Lets just get a capable ROLB inked or drafted.