[Fritz88]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

The Brown cut does surprise me.

Brown played a good game against GB. Really, he struggled a bit against NO but played well against SF, Pitt and GB.

He's never going to be a starter but as a backup and/or Nickel CB, he's a fine player.

That said, I think Cooper has easily Browns potential, but I certainly don't understand Parker over him.

The CB depth on this team just terrifies me. No, Brown wasn't amazing, but for this season he's going to be a better cover CB than Parker for certain and likely better than Cooper as well (who appears to be very similar to Sanders Commings in terms of strengths/weaknesses and skill).

Even if you don't see Brown as a guy that brought something to the STs unit (though you'd be wrong), I'm not sure how you can see this Parker cat and think "man - it's a good thing we have him instead of Brown - we're clearly better for it".

I love the Moses pickup and really liked Johnson coming out of the draft. Howard has some ability and I wonder if he can't be a situational 3-tech for us. He was supposed to be a plus pass-rusher coming out of school - maybe a new scheme will be a better fit.

I was a little disappointed to see Diles go; I thought he earned a job. Long-term this is probably better for the org, but I always like seeing a long-shot work his way onto the squad and every time I watched Diles, he was making things happen. He did everything he could do to make the team, it just wasn't enough.

I am baffled too. He's great in ST.