like that time he drafted Eddie Lacy?
The problem with that is every year a lot of those guys are prove themselves to be done in the league. and Brooks was available under kind of unique circumstances this year. but regardless, as happy I was we did sign him, he's missed most of this season too. Sure we could sign 4 Brooks types players, but how many years see's 4 Brooks type players that are available and then all 4 will sign with the same team knowing at least 1 or 2 of them are going to just sign a year contract and retire because they're done or sign a one year because they're coming off injury and want to light up the league and cash in again. some of those guys aren't going to want to go split time with 3 other vets at one position. They want to showcase and shine and cash in. Remember, he needs more OLB's, OT's, DB's, and RB's too. Where do the roster spots come from?
You have to invest in your players you think are worth it. Look at how many people are made at not investing at Hawyard and Hyde in the past 2 years? Don't invest in Matthews, who at the time was one of the entire league's premier pass rushers? I don't even need to imagine what it would sound like in here. Should we not have invested in Rodgers because we can get a lot of journeymen back ups and not have a drop off in QB production that was never very high to begin with? Let Sam Shields walk? don't pay Nick Collins?
Injuries do suck. The Saints are finally relevant again after throwing large amounts of cash at a safety one year and then having to trade their best offensive player away to create room because he was hurt all the time and failed. Woodson worked out for us because he stayed fairly healthy. These things happen and sometimes it has nothing to do with talent evaluation. Or you draft a guy like Franklin and his career is ended after a couple games.
Every year it's a new team we need to be like. the Broncos, anybody want to change places with them? The seahawks, that's who we need to be. Sure they might beat us now, but we beat them at full strength and if you take their QB out and go at it head to head, i'm fairly confident we come out on top. Everyone said we needed to emulate them and they've always been known as a running team, even signed a RB away from us to get better and look where they are? The Jags and Rams? you know why they were aggressive? because they've pretty much resided in the basement for 10 years with brief little stints of maybe being something better than garbage and still they haven't won ****. The Rams are looking good, that's certain. There's still a lot of football left to be played.
I think Ted is always trying to balance playmakers with rotational guys we can afford to build a competitive team with and always trying to find guys to make us better. Of course it doesn't always work out, but all these "options" i see being tossed out as "answers" are only answers if they work. Which of course if we never lost all pros to injuries, or have talented guys quit, or have a HOF QB toss an INT in the endzone in games to get us to the superbowl, we wouldn't need options, we'd be too busy winning.
