New England's picks are usually after ours and they're better than us. Same goes for Denver who won it all this season. Denver and New England both use FA. Aqib Talib, DeMarcus Ware, TJ Ward, Peyton Manning, Emmanuel Sanders, Owen Daniels, Vernon Davis
Originally Posted by: uffda udfa
NO NO NO! Revis was signed by Belicheck because he busted on Ras I dowling, Tavon wilson, T. Wheatley and Butler Picks and Mccourty couldn't cut it at CB. Denver signed Ware because they lost Dumerville on Elway's fax SNAFU, had to get a new secondary because Webster[picked 2 rounds ahead of Hyde], Bolden [picked 30 slots ahead of House] Carter, Cox and Thompson all busted out and Moore could not be retained and they picked QB Osweiler 5 pics ahead of Hayward because a 1st rounder was stupidly thrown away on Tebow.
The Revis signing killed NE this year and If Belicheck doesn't cheat in both Indy and Balt. games, then 2014 Revis signing would have gone for naught and the vocal minority would be singing praises of the replacement flavor of the month, Ozzie Newsome. BTW, how's Ozzie doing since he tried to "go for it?" And of course, Denver just sucks. The offense was incapable of scoring on its own; Denver can only win if the opponent gets stupid. The D is good, but
nothing like Lewis Ravens, Ryan Bears, Lambert's Steelers, Nitschke's Packers or even 2013 Seattle. They got lucky to get a bye; they got lucky when Dalton and Rothlesberger went down; they got lucky Belichek got aggressive stupid. If Dilfer was QBing Carolina, Denver loses 3-0, they might still be playing into 126 OTs; but mistakeless sucky Dilfer doesn't lose that game for Carolina. Or Peyton winning was a WWF script. Elway's aggressiveness had nothing to do with winning SB; but it will destroy them for the next few years. He's just the flavor of the year.
Every GM is D @ D. Every GM works to avoid Free agency. No GM would ever sign a FA if enough of his picks and UDFAs worked out. The master and most disciplined is the TT/MM combo. If GB doesn't win one of the other 31 undisciplined GMs will; and they will be the flavor of the year. Ted Thompson is sitting at a 32-man hold'em table w/ aces; he's a 4-1 or 5-1 favorite against anyone GM; but against the entire field he is an underdog.
Don't forget, our drafts in 2010-13 were hurt because 3 other GM's had knowledge of the full and/or parts of TT's draft board. Randall and Rollins were not stolen by McKenzie and Dorsey, because Randell was in JC and Rollins was playing b-ball when they were on the the staff. If they had the talent evaluating skill of TT, Dorsey trades down a few spots and picks Randall; McKenzie trades up to get him.