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Originally Posted by Saul Good
Our roster reminds me of the Royals roster this year. We don't have much in the way of star players, but the depth and versatility has been amazing. Injuries seem to be a bigger factor in the league every year. Maybe the new trend is going to be building teams that can survive a war of attrition.
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That's not a new trend - it's what Ron Wolf did in GB for years.
Horizontal roster building; depth across the team. It's essentially exactly the opposite of the stars/scrubs approach from Pioli.
I still can't understand how people forgot so quickly why those teams cratered. I mean, the obvious is Cassel but the supporting cast on those squads was just so friggen abysmal. The NFL is all about exploiting matchups and in any given game there were 3 mismatches on either side of the ball for the Chiefs because Pioli simply couldn't firm up the depth on this roster.
And unlike Pioli, Dorsey has shown a willingness and an ability to go kick over every rock trying to find a contributor. He uses every single spot on this roster to great effect, as opposed to Pioli that only seemed to give a shit about the top 25 or so and let the remaining half of the roster atrophy to the point that most of the guys we cut never played another NFL game.
Dorsey's not doing anything new here - he's doing what he learned under Wolf with the Packers and its absolutely the right way to go about doing things.