Average Gain from Big FA Spending Sprees? 0 Wins

[rmoneyg35]

You build through the draft and spend a little bit in free agency to fix the holes that couldn't be filled by the draft.

[Pox 08]

I read it.

 

Was Ed Reed considered a top FA in any area?  Wasn't he broken and used up by the time the Texans picked him up,  also coming off of a big injury (I'm not googling it yet,  just off the top of my head)

 

Smart teams are smart teams.   Sometimes they pick up highly targeted FAs not for a possible increase in reg season wins,  since it's already assumed they will win enough to get into the postseason,    they pick up highly targeted FAs so they can possibly get further in the playoffs than they did the previous years.

 

Teams like the Bucs believe they can just throw a bunch of money at free agents and they will somehow win games.   The fact that,  the Bucs are on their third HC since even Cam was drafted...should tell everyone what they need to know about them.     They rarely pick the right players for them...whether the FAs are bottom tier or top tier.        Mix that with their inability to draft like G-man.....and you have one of the worst teams in the NFL over the last few years.         Same thing with the Raiders.

 

 

 

 

 

[Germy Ego]

Oh look, the Patriots had signed Derrille Revis for 12 million per year and went 12-4 (and won a Lombardi) just like the year before.

See?

No difference!111!1!11!!1!!

 

apparently you don't understand what "on average" means

[Mr. Scot]

Suck we still.

Tommy Jone?

[rodeo]

apparently you don't understand what "on average" means

 

In other words it an "average" in this case means absolutely nothing. The shitty teams who sign FAs suck, the good teams who sign them are good.

 

Some people would like us to be a good team who signs free agents.

[jayflip]

There are two groups on here right now:

Group A: I want FA's signed and we should just restructure contracts (pushing cap hit into the future) to clear barely enough room to sign someone. Even though this continues to leave us in cap hell going forward.

Group B: We are trying to get out of the cap hell that Hurney created so that we can make the right FA moves in the future and to be able to sign our upcoming FA's in the future. We are in year 3 of a 3 year process and everyone should just hold course. We may not maximize this season, but we will be set up correctly going forward.

Group A needs to understand that the Group B methodology is EXACTLY what the Panthers are doing and should stop posting 10 threads a day bitching and whining about how the FO does not care about winning and is cheap. They believe in winning.....consistently winning and are putting the team in a position to do this.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think there are two kinds of people in this world, and those who are smart enough to know better.

I'm kidding.

I fully agree with your assessment.

[dos poptarts]

I wish the writer could have listed the top-5 FAs per year, since that was the basis for his wins calculations.

 

[My Goodness My Guinness]

Patriots - Browner, Revis, Amendola, Blount

Seahawks - Avril, Bennett, Harvin, Lynch

Ravens - Boldin, Jones, McKinney, Pollard

SB winning teams seem to spend on free agency.

Were they not already winning games before they signed free agents?

[fjblair]

The teams that do this tend to be the ones that are poorly run, so probably no surprise.

 

Danny boy Snyder and the Redskins wrote the book.

[GoobyPls]

Were they not already winning games before they signed free agents?

Pats yes, Ravens yes, Seahawks no

Those FA signings put them over the top

[GoobyPls]

Drafting Wilson Wagner Sherman Thomas Chancellor

Had nothing to do with that... Lol

 

I never said that, but people here seem to think that building through the draft is the only way.

[ooglechi]

I never said that, but people here seem to think that building through the draft is the only way.

That's not true at all. The people that you are thinking of are just smart enough to realize that we don't have money to spend on big name FAs right now.

[GoobyPls]

That's not true at all. The people that you are thinking of are just smart enough to realize that we don't have money to spend on big name FAs right now.

We had enough money to sign Shorts, we also have enough to sign Crabtree. And since next year we have a ton of cap space we can always backload a contract, which would barely even smidge next years cap.

[thefuzz]

We had enough money to sign Shorts, we also have enough to sign Crabtree. And since next year we have a ton of cap space we can always backload a contract, which would barely even smidge next years cap.

 

Who says we won't sign Crab?