12-23-2021, 06:23 AM
(12-22-2021, 09:16 PM)jason Wrote: Fair enough... But you also don't hit on many FA signings when you only get a coupla over the hill, and bargain bin free agents to work with. No objective observer can claim that Marvin ever got this much help in free agency.
This is one of the reasons as to why it's impossible to judge them apples to apples. Aside from Waynes, they have done really well in FA as of late. During the Lewis regime you'd see guys like Bobby Williams or Reggie Nelson come in from another team and you'd say to yourself, "Wow! This guy was a hit!" ...BUT they would always have to come at a bargain. Going out and paying straight up #1 NT money for a guy like Reader, or going out and signing someone like Hendrickson(who was fresh off of a double digit sack season) just wasn't happening. More often than not they'd have half of their own big ticket guys leave due to being "overpaid."
Lewis made the playoffs a healthy amount of the time and he did so(primarily) with a second round QB. He also had a lot of time to implement/tweak his system. ZT has a team where a lot of the guys who help to carry the load are super high draft picks...guys who wouldn't have been available had the team not done so poorly. It's impossible to pick ZT over Lewis until there's more evidence JMHO. That's about as fair of a thing as you can say as a fan: "Where is the evidence?"
