05-08-2018, 04:02 PM
(05-08-2018, 02:43 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: But you could make an argument for us not improving as much as those that ended in the same approximate area as us.
I have to admit that I have not looked at all the gains and losses from all the other teams, but I know that for every team that signed a high quality free agent another team lost one. So it is impossible for every team to improve in free agency. The total losses are equal to the total gains.
Then with the draft we addressed two needs with our first two picks.. "Draft grades" at this point are meaningless. No one knows which players are going to be good and which ones are going to flop, but unless a team had multiple high level picks it is hard to claim that anyone added more talent than we did with 4 in the first 78 selections.
So I don't see how so many teams could have gotten better than us when we did not lose anyone.