Sure, but those are the chances you take. It usually works. But with Covid and the outsized IR list we've had over the last couple of years, it was the worst it could get for the strategy Loomis uses. Yet, we're getting closer to the other side of it and will be back to business as usual probably in the next year or two. Just feel like some just aren't willing to wait and let Loomis do his thing.
And all teams make decisions about how much depth they want. NBA teams do this every season. They have to make decisions on how deep into the bench they go with their rotations, not only in the regular season, but also in the playoffs when the rotation usually shortened quite a bit.
NFL teams will decide how much money goes to their core players and how much to the rest.