salary cap hell!
It didn't work when we had Drew and Payton and it's certainly not worth continuing now that they are both gone.
How could you say it didn’t work when we had Sean and Drew? We were literally the league’s winningest team for like a five year stretch and if not for a couple of miracles, had likely won a ring or two.
I think people are too “SB or bust” when it comes to measuring team success. It is EXTREMELY hard to win a championship, because it requires being very good and very lucky. Sure, it is the ultimate goal, but only one team each year gets to enjoy those spoils.
Yes, we went all in to try to win a championship and we didn’t do it, however we definitely dominated the league during that stretch and that counts for something when measuring the success of a fiscal strategy.
Were we really not a success in your eyes in 2018 because an official decided not to throw a flag on the most blatant PI ever? Are we really not a success in 2017 because of the most bizarre miracle TD reception to win a playoff game? Is the ‘09 team more of a success simply because they got a lucky few fumble bounces and won an OT coin toss in a playoff game?
All of those teams were great, one just got very lucky, something many people hate to acknowledge.