(08-29-2019, 08:02 PM)Firesky Wrote: This team hasn't had depth since 2007. We had a few high first round picks we hit on recently, a ridiculous stroke of luck in 2016 getting 3 probowl caliber players in a row, and getting top 15 talent OT's for bookends that fell to us in the 2nd round. They used the majority of the salary cap to fill out the rest of the starters but if we're being honest we were still in a rebuild when the stars aligned in 2017 and we had incredible injury luck, even then we didn't have talent in our reserves, we were just fortunate to never have to see how bare the cupboard was back then, and then the injury bug struck and well.. you know the rest

I agree with this assessment. When this team dealt with some injuries last year, we really got a glimpse of how superficial the talent was on this team. We have a pretty decent team of starters, but the drop-off after that is incredible. I think our drafting has been more "lucky" than "skillful". We have had guys fall to us in the draft which helped make our decisions for us. And we threw money at any already proven Free Agent.

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