Underhill article: “Saints moves are telling us what they felt the real problem with the team was last season”

I don’t buy into the injuries excuse. It’s cool to say it, as a coping mechanism, but 4 out of the top 10 teams that lost the most points due to injuries, made the playoffs (Lions, Bucs, Steelers, and Texans). The main thing, when deciding if a team is good or not, is the depth chart. If your depth chart is underwhelming, then you are not a good team…….you are just a top heavy team. If you can’t build a competent roster, where guys can fill in, due to injuries, then you are lacking at assembling a roster. Good/great teams overcome obstacles. However, if I were to play the “injuries” game, then I would say we were going to be nothing more than an average team bc that was the ceiling that coach showed was his best. I only go by what facts have presented
Those four teams all got exposed too. The NFC North's three playoff teams went 12-0 against the AFC South and 11-1 against the NFC West which speaks more to how mediocre those divisions were. They're not even going 7-5 against the AFC North or NFC East. Texans couldn't cut it down the stretch. Steelers also struck out against the elite teams but they have Tomlin that helps them grind out 9-10 wins. Bucs...we know why.