Detroit Lions Trade Jerome Harrison, 7th-Round Pick To Eagles For Ronnie Brown

I think for the value, Ronnie Brown was picked up very inexpensively. And he’s a solid vet. I think with our passing game, it could help him more than in Philly.

sounds good to me

Ronnie is no doubt an upgrade to our power game. Even though his blocking isn’t ideal up front. We had showed intrest in him before and with MoMo and Kieland the depth behind best is promising until we can get Leshoure back. Another fantastic move by Mayhew.

headed to the IR? still a rumor at this point.

Seriously though, this is nice but it doesn’t matter unless we traded for some guys who can open up holes.

Trade for him, cut him, and then trade for him again? That makes no sense.

I’ve had the displeasure of watching Ronnie Brown the past three months or so and let me tell you, there is a reason you’re getting him this cheap. He looks like he is running on sand this year, he has zero explosiveness, he goes down on first contact and he makes no one miss. If you’re going to rely on him heavily, you’re in trouble because he isn’t even close to what he once was. He lost his job to Dion Lewis, a rookie who has outperformed him in every way imaginable. Ronnie Brown did nothing well, not running, not catching or blocking.

But thanks for the draft pick and Harrison. Harrison has proven his worth in the Eagles’ scheme and I like draft picks.

Another sparkling move by Mayhew. Brown will be a great compliment to this backfield. I love how this team finds ways to get better.

I’m okay with this, whatevs.

He just didn’t fit on the Eagles. This could be a great trade, remember, he is a former first round pick and he’s a pretty big back. If nothing else, we didn’t lose too much.

I honestly didn’t think they were that serious about getting a running back but they clearly are. Ronnie Brown is not only a better power back than Best, he’s got enough speed to go the distance. They could also put Best and Brown in there at the same time.

It doesn’t work out, we gave up hardly anything for him. It does work out, we gave up hardly anything for him, and he helps our team….its hardly a loss in any ways

Brown had 976 total yards from scrimmage. 5 TDs. He went to Philly and had trouble in their system. Coming to the D, where he has an OC he’s worked with before. We gave away nothing in real value for him. Good trade.

Ronnie Brown might be something,but his fumble/pitch/whatever at the goal line vs the niners was terrible decision. If he’s the power guy, he wasn’t budging sf d.
He was a highpick, but to me, this trade feels very ea maddenesque more than mayhem but I will happily welcome him and hope I am wrong about the 7th rounder

The way I see it. Neither team really gave up anything. It’s just a move.

Brown didn’t look good at all with the Eagles but I have wondered if it was because he didn’t fit good in the system. Also he seems like a back that needs more then 1 or 2 carries a game & he wasn’t going to get that in Philly unless Shady got hurt

At this point I have a hard time seeing him being able to contribute anymore than Harrison would. I honestly would rather bring Aaron Brown back and save the 7th rounder

he doesn’t try to throw the ball as he’s falling to the ground here.

Typical Mayhew in that he got something for very little. Let’s hope Ronnie can do some damage to solidfy this as a full blown Mayhew.

I’d rather have Brown for Harrison and a 7th than have given up Shaun Hill to Oakland for Michael Bush. Just my opinion

Had we aquaried Brown for just a pick we would still have cut Harrison

for Ronnie Brown? Ehh its one of those you just cant tell yet trades.

But he can throw too right? ah ha..

I’m sure he is better than Harrison…and a practice squad guy…Though, keep in mind that WIllie Young was a 6th rounder.

The see him fitting in somewhere. I trust Mayhew.

Ronnie Brown is here for depth, period. Jerome Harrison, for whatever reason, did not work out for our team. Same for Brown. Trade them for each other and hope the “fresher” start works!
 The 7th rd’er is for Brown’s potential? not sure.

Really like Maurice. showed last year he can be a grinder and get those tough yards. We all want jahvid to be the feature back but till he proves himself i like the move to sprinkle in a few backs to get the run game sparked.

I don’t know how to feel about this. Part of me wishes we had just stayed pat and given Harrison more opportunities and kept the seventh rounder, but if Ronnie Brown can revert to half the player he was during his Miami glory days, it’ll look like a steal.

We’re essentially just giving up a seventh-rounder (seeing as how Harrison would’ve had to be cut to make room for Brown anyways), and for that I’m willing to take a gamble on Ronnie Brown. I don’t dislike the move, but I’m not super crazy about it either.

… is that I’m taking this as a sign that the coaches don’t have a lot of confidence in Keilland Williams. We brought him in to be our short-yardage back, and making a trade at the deadline like this for another big back makes me think that they’re not impressed with what they’ve seen from K-Will.

I just hope he can be old Ronnie Brown…and not more recent Ronnie Brown.

im not sure how to take this trade, something tells me Jahvid isnt all the way right in the head … No puns intended and when i watched that game … go back to one of last plays he carried and you heard the crunch and saw his slow reactions to getting up. He clearly looked the part of a concussion.

Detroit knows for a playoff game it needs to establish running … the RB is one of the easiest to assimilate into the NFL …. im not sold on Brown as much as some … now the question becomes was he used wrongly in the run game or is Detroit Grasping right now hoping to produce more to help balance the game out .

Now we have a different rb that wont have a hole to run through…..

as we have Mo and Kwill and had Harrison who ran good in preseason. But I’ll take a wait and see to this one. Wonder why we didn’t pick up A Brown who knew our team and ran some some runs for us . But we didn’t give much for him so if he doesn’t work out we just trade him down the line. Would like to see us look at some Olinemen at some point.

We get Ronnie Brown, who gets a fresh start and a completely different team to work with. They get Jerome Harrison, who wasn’t really doing anything for us, other than maybe special teams. The 7th round pick doesn’t concern me. We’ll use Brown in any way we can; special teams, 3DRB, FB, etc. What people don’t understand sometimes is that nearly every person we’ve acquired over the past few years we’ve utilized. I’m more than confident that Brown can help us out where we eventually place him.

He knows what he is getting and how to use him, plus, even if he is a one year rental, he cant be any worse than Aaron “I can’t pass protect” Brown.

Vet, that can maybe teach our young guys how to run in some situations. I view this a chance to teach Leshoure possibly. We need to remember we still have Leshoure, this is a small part of the future plan for our starting running back.

This offense has not been very good at the point of attack. We have shown that we do not play smash mouth football. We have this soft approach to running the ball with traps and draws and delays that seem to have difficulty developing. We need to do a little more off tackle north-south stuff, maybe some power sweeps, or tri-back sets to cause linebacker confusion and run play action out of that. The shotgun hand-off has been very disappointing so far. I like the addition of Ronnie Brown, but he will strruggle if we dont change our running attack scheme up a bit with some different sets, looks and plays.

Brown was a good back, maybe he can be again.

gone out and got a CB. Samuel was available from the Eagles. Should have snagged both him and Brown.

This is an upgrade to the back field and if best gets hurt again we need depth to make the playoffs. I think Scott L had plan to put Best and Mikel in the backfield together now those play can be used as the 49ers saw alot of our plays coming. That 7th is 2013 which means if he was a player he won’t make an impact at the soonest 2014. Keep Winning now baby!!!!

I like this trade, Harrison (though a local boy) hasn’t really done much for the Lions, and a 7th round pick to the Eagles for someone (granted in the past) has been a proven asset, and has worked with Linehan before in the past, I can only see this as a positive move. Yes the O-Line isn’t the greatest in the world, but with Ronnie Brown now, we have a potential power back to throw up the middle (Best doing it wasn’t the smartest thing imho, which probably led to the concussion) and we can use Best once he’s healthy as an outside threat/pass recieving threat. Also, Ronnie Brown is a lot better blocker than what Harrison was. And theres always the chance for a little ‘trickery’ with the Wildcat (I don’t think it’ll actually happen, but you never know, We’d all probably ROFL if Brown did throw a TD to Megatron (admit it, it would be kinda funny)

Ronnie is only a couple years older than Harrison and has shown more talent. We did have to give up a draft pick but it was a 7th rounder anyways. There will be plenty of UDFA’s to grab some bodies / possible talent so I’m really liking this trade. Don’t know to much about Ronnie Brown’s game these days but it should exceed Harrison’s. With as much as we run anyone NOT named Best I agree that this RB shuffling is pretty silly. I’ve been wanting more Keiland, now I want more Keiland / Brown. Our offensive weapons are insane, but I think its time to start using them a little better.

hope it’s not another rudi johnson thing. i could only guess that ronnie brown has more upside than him.
a 7th is pretty worthless and harrison was expendable. sounds good.