In free agency, every team must make tough choice (1 Viewer)

[Dan in Lafayette]

Adam Schefter / NFL Network

Football’s hot stove league kicks off at 12:01 a.m. Friday morning, when teams can start igniting their fans' hopes and cooking up free-agent contracts.

Yet, before any team reaches for its checkbook and before any team opens its vault, it should study the makeup of football's final four from last season. There are divergent models of how to advance to the Super Bowl.

The New York Giants won the Super Bowl a season after fans demanded more action than general manager Jerry Reese gave them, making former Kansas City linebacker Kavika Mitchell his only free-agent pickup.

The Green Bay Packers leapfrogged the Chicago Bears and most everybody else in the NFC during a year in which their only free-agent signing was former Giants cornerback Frank Walker. Full Story – NFL>comhttp://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story...0d5d806e0f6e&template=with-video&confirm=true