07-28-2021, 05:27 PM
(07-28-2021, 03:49 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I think he just believes it was better/easier to build a competitive team prior to the implementation of free agency.
He believes you should live and die by the players you draft.
It's actually kind of funny given how small the scouting department is and how few really good players they've gotten from the draft in recent years.
Possible, but it wasn't one of the reasons he gave. His first thought is that he felt it was better for the fans if guys played for one team their entire careers. The other big point was that he dislikes the way player salaries are extremely top heavy now with a small handful of players eating up the majority of each team's spending and that player pay was a lot more evenly divided pre FA.