05-01-2019, 01:49 PM
I am not going to defend our free agency activity this year, butI still want to point out a flaw in the logic a lot of people use.
Many fans act like every team in the league upgrades in free agency, but that just is not true. Every good free agent added by a team is a loss to another team. Too many fans just look at additions and ignore losses. A team can sign a couple of expensive free agents, but if they also lose a couple they are not improving their roster.
When you look at free agency across the entire league it is a zero net sum gain. For every addition there is a subtraction. So you can not ignore our signings of Brown and Dennard. Preventing a loss of talent is important and counts as a free agent move.
Many fans act like every team in the league upgrades in free agency, but that just is not true. Every good free agent added by a team is a loss to another team. Too many fans just look at additions and ignore losses. A team can sign a couple of expensive free agents, but if they also lose a couple they are not improving their roster.
When you look at free agency across the entire league it is a zero net sum gain. For every addition there is a subtraction. So you can not ignore our signings of Brown and Dennard. Preventing a loss of talent is important and counts as a free agent move.
