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Originally Posted by Chiefaholic
People say it enough, they'll eventually get it right. I'm a lot more optimistic about this team than most here. They're building through the draft and not overpaying in free agency. People can say "what about last year", but we were freakin PATHETIC at more positions than we were respectable at. They had to make drastic changes last year, now it's time to build on to what they started.
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I'm probably somewhere between you and the others, while I FULLY acknowledge that building your core through the draft is the only way to create and sustain long term success... I honestly felt that this year was the year to add just TWO real pieces, I genuinely think that two solid pieces at FS and WR could've propelled us deep into the playoffs.
As I've said many times over in the past... don't mortgage the future to get those two pieces, they didn't have to be PREMIER guys like Byrd etc. But I remain convinced that some easily doable cap finagling could've gotten those two, second tier pieces without putting us in cap hell for the next 5 years.
Dorsey has pretty much went the exact opposite of where I thought he would... what I took from last year, is that we have a team that's THIS close to making real noise, so lets get a couple bigger pieces to help us go over the top.
But the tack they seem to have taken is... instead of adding in a couple of really strong support beams for the wall, lets just kinda fill in little chinks here and there on the cheap. In short, I wanted two starters and then fill in the cracks with the draft... Dorsey has decided to find two starters AND fill in the cracks through the draft and bargain free agents (and precious few of even these).
I'm by NO means ready to fly any banners, the NINE game swing last year still gives me a chub to think about it, BUT if he wants to double down on his injured second year guys and bargain bin fill ins to make up ground on Denver... then he damn well better be right.
If we get blown out left and right next year (our schedule is brutal), I'll join the usual negative naybobs here with lusty boo's of my own.