09-08-2017, 04:33 PM
(09-08-2017, 01:25 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Indeed. But the point remains that Super Bowl contenders do improve through free agency.
It's a fallacy to think that contenders only improve through the draft.
Just imagine if we signed a LB that could cover a TE a couple years ago? Or if we upgraded at Center?
Now our roster has declined through losing free agents to the point it doesn't matter.
I get what you are putting down. I also think though you have to look at what or who is a FA. The draft this year was bad for OL. I honestly don't think the FA guys were the answer to what we need or needed. The list of tackles that came out, in my opinion, were pro-bowlers maybe 5 years ago. Take Clady for instance, pro-bowler for a few years but that wasn't the player we would be getting in Clady. Same with Mangold! Not the same player he was 5 years ago. So are we really improving over what we already have? We grabbed Minter in FA, I honestly don't see a huge difference from what we had before, so far. Not saying that is the way it is every year but this year it seemed to me it was.
