Four consecutive years

[THE PISTONS]

(10-16-2017, 02:12 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Yep. You, me, Wyche and a few others have been harping on this for years. I knew we were treading water by avoiding FA and relying 100% on the draft, but some didn't want to hear about it. They bought into the Hobspin nonsense about "model model" and how the Bengals were doing things the right way.

This team still has a good core with Andy, Green, Atkins, Dunlap, Burfict and a solid secondary...but the rest of the roster has fallen off a bit...mainly the o-line, which has been criminally neglected. That core is still good enough to make us competitive even with the o-line, but it's obvious we're not going anywhere even if we manage to scrape our way to the playoffs. 

So basically that great core of players will eventually be remembered as good teams that always disappointed in the end. Similar to the core of Carson, Chad, TJ, Rudi, Justin Smith, Simmons, Deltha and Tory James. That core had the same problems. (1) Marvin is synonymous with choking and (2) Mike wouldn't spend to bring them help. In the end, the defense never got the help that Chad and (probably) Carson wanted, the o-line fell apart and that was that. 

Lather, rinse, repeat. Here we are 9 years later in the exact same scenario.

For some reason, most fans blame the players. Which enables the teflon GM to keep being a stubborn idiot.

The telling thing is we've had 5 playoff wins in 50 years and NONE since modern free agency. The Steelers have appeared in 16 AFC Championship games.

The way we do things here is not normal. No other teams shun free agency. No other teams tout compensatory picks like they are gold. Other teams have scouts.

When will the rest of the fans wake up? Instead they come up with conspiracies where the league wants the Steelers and Patriots to win. And talk about bad luck.

Hmmm...seems to me like the teams that invest resources into winning and that are well managed generally win.