which is another way to say, limited depth. Injuries happen. We can’t afford to WAJ, Kamari, Sting… that’s about it to me.
There's no way to secure the depth required under the current roster cap to handle a rash of injuries at any position. We have to have injury luck or resources committed to future moves and a huge Rolodex of alternative replacements already in the pipeline. But we've already seen what happens when the wrong players are in the mix. ( ie CJGJ who is a great player, but the wrong one for us) Some of the most important behind the scenes moves have already taken place quietly and we won't know what they were unless they are needed. Put me down as a fanboy of the current era with Cal, Hannah, Nick and Demeco.
24 yrs of McNair selling that they are a championship org and haven't even been to a AFCCG.I'm not buying their snakoil anymore. Dont tell me how good you are, go out on the field and prove you're as good as you think you are.
This is just why I think the missing element, and reason I am optimistic, is a dynamic perspective verses a static perspective. There is something to be said for both models. I prefer the dynamic model which anticipates changes like the value of next season's draft picks verses last years draft position. It's why changes I've seen in Free Agents, Trades and Draft choices have me excited and why the evidence of the survey of players which would not make the anticipated 53 player roster or practice squad mean more to me than those reasonably holding onto the SHOW ME FIRST model. You are expressing a static model which is the more accurate way of evaluating how effective a team was without the emotional attachment to your own projections, which is the weakness of the dynamic perspective I lean into. My hope is that these two perspectives/models will unify in the very near future.
