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Originally Posted by Chaka
Haha - funny. Of course adding better players usually improves a team. My point is this: most of the free agents people here were pining for have underperformed, so adding them may not have helped at all. Imagine if we had signed Norwall - how would that have played out for us? Would we have drafted Nelson? How would Norwall's underperformance (if we assume he'd perform similar to how he performed in JAX) have affected our offensive line performance, and by extension, our entire offensive production? Yes, we'd have less cap space available, but would we have been better off?
Theorizing about adding "good' players is tempting, but ultimately foolhardy because there's no way to know how it would have played out, how the player's involvement would have affected the overall team performance, player development, and team chemistry.
I'm just saying that I'm happy with how things have turned out. If the team was 1-10 at this point and the draft picks had flamed out, then I guess I'd be ok with this type of criticism. But given what's happened this year, and the dramatic change in team perception, I'll disagree with it.
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We shouldn't have signed Ebron since he underperformed with the Lions... oh wait!
Seriously you dont really know how someone will perform where. But to stand pat when he could have made the team better is unacceptable. It's his job to make the team better sooner not later... he has done some good things dont get me wrong. But there is a short window in the NFL.... Dont wait if you have the resources to do it now!