Hobspins annual lies

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(03-05-2016, 05:33 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: You have one example in the past 20 years where that truly worked and that team is now in cap purgatory.  Hardly anyone gave them a chance?  Say they had lost to New England, and been out in round 2, everyone would have said "what a waste of money they gave all those free agents to try and win while their window was open".

Denver had a MUCH older team, and a QB clearly on his last legs.  That is not the Bengals, and the Bengals are in place to contend for years to come.  

If the Bengals do as I think they will, and sign a couple veterans that are not FAs (i.e- they have been released) like a LB and a WR, or maybe a safety, they will get a tremendous windfall of compensatory draft picks for the 2017 draft.  Those will be able to be traded at that time, and only increases their value.  

No one will want to admit to this because it just hurts too damn much, but if Dalton doesn't injure his thumb, I don't think it is Denver that hoists that trophy.  

The problem is that many teams that hoist the trophy employ just that strategy.  

2015:  Broncos
2014:  Pats (Revis, Browner, LaFell, Blount)
2013:  Seahawks (Mike Bennett, Cliff Avril, Percy Harvin)


You can find key players on most Super Bowl winning teams teams that were brought in that season or in the preceding season that helped the team win it all.  The point has never been to win the FA period and sign a bunch of  Suhs or Haynesworths.  Rather, add talent in a few deficient areas and try to actually win a Super Bowl.