salary cap hell!

St. Geezy said
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.

You have some really strange standards. Of course every season is Super Bowl or bust. You think anybody starts the season thinking "You know, I think I'd be happy if we could get all the way to second in the division this year"? So yes, championships are the bar of success. Almost winning, regardless of the reason, doesn't count. That doesn't mean I didn't think the team was good or that I didn't enjoy watching them play. It means they didn't get it done. It was a failure.

You also conveniently forgot to quote the part of my post that specifically said "Hardly anyone was complaining about going all in while Drew was playing". I was fine with it then because we were trying to get another championship with our HOF QB. The worst thing I said about this team back then is that we should have been drafting his successor during the last few years when the writing was on the wall.

So if you're happy to keep doubling down on a cap and roster strategy that was designed to get the most out of a generational player's career, long after he's retired, then you're going to get some resistance from some of us. Especially when it didn't get results under the best circumstance of the past, much less the far worse circumstances of the present.