Pittsburgh Steelers release veteran starting inside linebacker Larry Foote - ESPN
We need this guy. Now.
He's a top flight ILB. DJ/Foote/Thomas/Vrabel is a shockingly good LB corps for this season and beyond.
Pittsburgh Steelers release veteran starting inside linebacker Larry Foote - ESPN
We need this guy. Now.
He's a top flight ILB. DJ/Foote/Thomas/Vrabel is a shockingly good LB corps for this season and beyond.
We have Vrabel, Thomas and Johnson as starters. Monty and Mario are probally backups. The LB we picked up in FA earlier are special teams player. We need another from somewhere.
Foote is a good hardworking football player. Sounds like a Pioli guy to me, although Pioli might be looking for that attack LB we will probally still need. IN ANY CASE BECAUSE OF THE AGE OF SOME OF OUR AQUISITIONS, WE STILL NEED LBers. I do not see any UDFA that will help.
Foote would definately be an upgrade over whoever else we have that would start if he wasnt here.
And about Pioli spending money.. we have tons of cap room left, and he would be a great addition.
It goes back to the old saying
"something is worth whatever its purchaser will pay for it"
and the KC chiefs as a purchaser have enough to pay for Foote, whatever he is worth~
Undrafted rookie Free agents are easier to teach and easier to set on the right track? You are telling me that a 28 year old starting ILB coming from the best defense in the league who just won the Super Bowl is a guy who is not worth having on the Chiefs? He has nothing that he can bring to this team? Zach Thomas is a one year guy. Foote can be a guy to solidify the inside and while he may not be a standout at his position, he is consistent and a solid starter. Pioli is not Herm/Carl. While Pioli will grow players in our system, he is not going to let the team lose to grow players. He is going to make sure we have a competitive team to put out there every week. Foote is not a backup. He started every game last season and for the past 5 seasons. He would be the perfect guy to mix with Zach Thomas and whoever to train the LBs to eventually take Zach and his positions. The only reason they are going with Timmons is because Timmons is better in pass coverage on third down and he's a first round pick. That is the main thing. It's time for Timmons to sink or swim. But the point is that they had Foote there so they could slowly grow Timmons into the position. Pioli wants smart players with a winning attitude. What better guy than Larry Foote, the previous starting ILB from the Steelers.
The last Steeler LB we brought in was less than impressive.
Kendrell Bell
He could provide some depth if he was available for the right price.
Foote Wants To Play For The Lions
Posted by Mike Florio on April 28, 2009, 2:54 p.m.
Perhaps far bigger than the news that former Steelers linebacker Larry Foote wants to play for the Detroit Lions is that anyone wants to play for the Detroit Lions.
But, indeed, Foote wants to continue his career in the state he calls “home,” with the team everyone calls “really, really sucky.”
“Detroit is always No. 1,” Foote told the Detroit News. “I mean, my agent is talking to them about me coming home, and we’ll go from there. But no question about it, that’s my first choice.”
Foote also revealed that he had been pushing the team to cut him, and that at one point he thought he’d be traded.
“I’ve been forcing [this] the whole offseason,” Foote said. “I’ve been asking for it all offseason, asking for a trade, and I guess they finally did something. I wish they’d have done it a little earlier. Technically, I’m a free man now, but a lot of the money [in free agency] has been spent. . . .
“I don’t know what the Steelers were doing in the whole process. They kept saying they were trying to get a trade. I know they were in talks with the Lions. But I don’t know how it’s gonna work. My agent [Ken Kremer] said the Lions tried to get me, but I still don’t know how bad they want me.”
On one hand, it’s arguably a tad douchey for the Steelers to squat on Foote through the first two months of free agency and then cut him three days after picking a total of, um, zero linebackers in the draft. On the other hand, Foote’s agent could have avoided the situation by simply shifting $1 million of Foote’s $2.885 million base salary into a roster bonus due on the first day of the 2009 league year.
If the Lions aren’t interested in bringing to the franchise a guy who got two Super Bowl rings without buying either of them on eBay, then maybe the Cardinals will be inclined to consider Foote, given his connection to former Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt.
Sign Travis LaBoy
thats my thoughts
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