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Originally Posted by FringeNC
Thank you. You only call it "rebuilding" when you have a bad record.
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IMO, rebuilding has nothing to do with the record.
It's the process of making your team younger, and hopefully better for the long term in the process.
In theory, if you bring in/draft the right players during a rebuilding process, your team should be good for a significant amount of time. We're talking 5-8 years. A team of 22 year old players
should grow and mature as players along the same timeframe, putting them all in their prime at the same time. Almost by definition, you can't call a rebuild a success or failure for several years. See Green Bay, Tennessee. In our case, incompetent coaching will probably slow that process down considerably.
What Miami has done is not rebuilding. You could call it reloading, I guess. They'll be decent this year, maybe next.
But unless they draft extremely well over the next 3-5 years to replace all the aging veterans they signed in FA this offseason, (at what happen to be very important positions) then they'll be right back in the shithouse with a 4-12 record.
The Jets are the same way. When players like Favre, Faneca and Jenkins retire, or are become ineffective to to age, they'll be in a world of hurt unless they draft extremely well and have replacements on hand for those vets.