02-25-2017, 05:40 PM
(02-24-2017, 03:02 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Correlation vs causation. It's not that free agency causes teams to lose. Teams that typically lose, typically have fewer players worthy of retaining - and hence more money to splurge in free agency. Using FA to fix a bad team overnight rarely - if ever - works, so it's likely that these types of teams continue to lose. This does not mean that FA should be avoided like the plague, or that a few calculated and intelligent FA moves can't help a good team get over the top.
This article is about teams that "win free agency". I've yet to see anyone asking the Bengals to do that. Pretty much every championship team over the last 25 years has benefitted greatly from a FA acquisition or a trade. This is undeniable really. It's not about "winning free agency", it's about dumping dead weight and making a smart move to get a solid player or two that greatly benefit the team. Think of the Patriots renting Revis for a championship run. Or renting a Martellus Bennett as a great insurance policy for their oft-injured star TE. These are just a couple of the hundreds of examples of successful pickups through the years.
Thank you for not being brainwashed like some ppl on here. They blindly rationalize everything the organization does.
We haven't won a playoff game in nearly 20 years. Can ppl get it through their head that that is NOT what winning ANYTHING looks like. The reason we're so STATISTICSLLY efficient in free agency is because we NEVER take any risks at all and only sign past prime mediocre bums. So let's say we put a free agent's caliber on a 1 to 5 point scale, and then the guy's performance on the field throughout his new contract to a 1 to 5 point scale. A lot of teams sign 4 and 5 point free agents but only get 3 point field production. That's considered a FA bust. The Bengals avoid this by only signing 1 and 2 point caliber free agents. So basically if that guy does anything consistent at all it's statisticslly a good signing. Only problem is we'll NEVER EVER catch lightning in a bottle in FA because the guys we sign literally don't have the talent capable to give us great on field production.
