I've had five years to make my opinion of Brown. I think that's a fair amount of time to determine if he sucks or not. I mean, he's played maybe a full four quarters this pre-season and racked up 3 false starts, 2 holdings penalties and given up 2 sacks. That's REALLY awful for four quarters worth of football.
and you list Dwight Freeney as an ELITE pass rusher, but he hasn't been elite for since 2010, his play noticeably dropping off in the last two seasons.
is he the better then what we had last year at the position? sure. but that's like saying a singe piece of poop is better then non-stop diaherrea. bottom line, they both stink.
Last season Freeney had 5 sacks and 10 tackles in 14 games. Not exactly top of the league.