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Originally Posted by Laz
I'm not a Pioli basher, i try to be realistic but his reluctance to spend money in free agency scares the shit out of me.
imo you need BOTH the draft and FA to get good and stay good. After we get a good team then Pioli can sit back and draft his ass off but until then we need to try every avenue. imo.
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I think it's a fair question to ask whether that apparent reluctance is Pioli or whether that's Hunt's direction.
Although they have I think spent a bit more than people realize. They just have a tendency to sign internally rather than sign outside free agents. And as I seem to say every year about this time, I think that's at least in part because free agency is not now what it was in the 90s or even the early part of the last decade. Teams are a bit less likely to let players go now. Generally (not always of course) a player on the market means there's some kind of issue, be it health or age or attitude.