salary cap hell!

dtc said
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.

💯

This is what people don’t understand or appreciate. Everyone these days measures success with a SB or bust mindset. To them, if you’re not absolutely dominating, you’re a failure.

Teams that are near .500 are basically the teams that didn’t have luck go their way. Teams that were a couple of lucky breaks like a controversial officiating call, or a ball bounce, or a FG miss from winning a division and being in the playoffs.

9-8 isn’t the end of the world. And don’t give me the crap about the schedule. Some of the Ls we took were to some really legitimate teams in hindsight.

If one freak thing like the examples above doesn’t happen, we are 10-7 division champs coming off a playoff season, and there are FAR fewer doom and gloom threads out there like this one.