Yeah and Nick wrote an article today that I told him he was debating with himself. It's a good article he just seems to argue for AND against his points
I don't know what changed for Triplett and Underhill, but today is the first time that I've seen them seem to get that building a team is not the simple black and white process that sports talkers and fans think it is.
The video that Taker posted is the first time I've seen them genuinely grapple with the fact that no approach has any guarantees and every approach relies on uncontrollable things falling into place in order to succeed. They hit the nail on the head when they said that "the total rebuild and suck" approach needs as much luck to work as the "being as good as you can until you get lucky" approach does.
Luck is just the uncontrollable variables working out in your favor and to your advantage. No NFL team has complete control over winning and losing. All they can do is do the best they can to create a team and situations that maximizes the chances of things working out in their favor.
That's the one thing the game of football has most in common with life. None of us has complete control over what happens in our lives. The best we can do is put ourselves into the most favorable situations we can, but that doesn't guarantee we will get the results we work at getting and it doesn't mean we are failures when we don't get the results we work towards.