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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Kinda.
The Paradox of Skill.
As more and more front offices get better and better at player evaluation (and they undeniably have), the line between success and failure gets closer and closer.
And at that point, a lot of it comes down to blind, stupid luck.
You can have the best front office in football but if there are 15 front offices that are all pretty good as well and they're all similarly situated in terms of draft capital (or in our case, situated BETTER), then saying "hey, why don't we just be the best at EVERYTHING" is pretty unrealistic unless you just keep getting dealt 21.
There are enough other good front offices in the league right now that the possibility of us just having great players at every position and not having to find ways to simply make due at a handful of them is...well it's zero. That's not gonna happen. In fact, the rules are set up to prevent it from happening - the league doesn't want it to.
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That argument sounds oddly familiar.
I remember the first game (Jags, maybe?) we played with Wally as HC in 2013. Prime Hali, DJ, EB, Houston, Flowers, and Poe played well in that game (all of those guys were Pro Bowlers that year, by the way). That wasn't the best defense we've ever had, but it was pretty damn good. That level of talent acquisition is no longer feasible? I'd hate to think that's true.
I was expecting someone to counter with the #1 defense idea will never work ... and I know it's highly unlikely. On the other hand, I'd rather shoot for the moon and hit a cloud than waddle around in a puddle of mediocrity while attempting to convince myself that it's the Amirandes swimming pool.
We can do better and we shall. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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