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(10-17-2017, 03:45 PM)Synric Wrote: I agree they didn't haven't looked at interior lineman over the last couple offseasons.

See when we take a step back and try to understand what we're all saying...we're not actually that far apart.

I commend you for this dialogue.

Too many times do things on the board get broken into extremes. 'He wants us to sign free agents! That means sign Suh! The Redskins do stuff like that and don't win!!!' or 'The Browns sign free agents and they're bad!'

I think you need a mixture of good drafting and wise free agent moves. Maybe 60/40 if you count retaining your own free agents in the free agent equation.

IF you don't use free agency though, you just can't draft good enough every year to replace the guys you use. Our 5 years of playoffs was largely fueled by an aberration. We had absolutely 2 GREAT DRAFTS in a row with Dalton/Green/Boling and Dunlap/Atkins. That's 2 HOF players and 4 Pro Bowl players in 2 drafts. You aren't going to see that a lot. It's an extreme outlier and most of our drafts since then have been average to below average.