we haven't used this strategy for 17 years. We started doing this a couple years before Brees retired and was sold to us as going all in for Brees. All in for Brees has us at 500 post Brees. Plenty of teams have more wins than us the past 3 seasons.
the strategy was sound and worked. We got very close and the price of losing an all world / all time qb isn't one that can be paid by simply being mad and complaining about it after the fact.
It also kept us at average instead of trash and has NEVER prevented us from signing anyone and everyone we wanted.
It's hard to win in the NFL. It's almost impossible to seamlessly replace Drew Brees or everyone would do it.