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Originally Posted by Fargo Ram Fan
The prize at LB was either Bell or Hartwell. They should have spent all they could on one of these younger bulls who could have anchored the D for years to come.
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Fargo, you are certainly entitled to your opinion and I respect it, but I have to disagree with you on some of these points.
Birthdate
Bell - 7/02/1980
Hartwell - 5/27/1978
Claiborne - 7/26/1978
Only 2 years separates Bell and Claiborne, and Hartwell is actually older than Claiborne.
Stats over the past 4 years
Bell - 47 games, 240 tackles,
18 sacks, 1 int., 6 pass def., 2 FF
Hartwell -
64 games, 337 tackles, 3 sacks, 1 int., 7 pass def.,
4 FF
Claiborne - 56 games,
355 tackles, 12.5 sacks,
4 int., 18 pass def., 3 FF
Avg. annual salary for Coakley and Claiborne combined = $6.6 million
Avg. annual salary for Pierce = $6.5 million
-and Pierce is supposed to be the cheapest of the big 3 (Pierce, Bell, Hartwell)
I'd say we did pretty good.