Quote:I didn't suggest anything.  I'm just explaining to you how and why SF and SEA got so good.  You don't suck as a strategy, but if you "build through the draft" that is basically how your team gets really good.  If your are bad for long enough, eventually you get more talented.

 

You build your offense to score points.  You build your defense to be good at more than one thing.  You don't want to get in a situation where you have a glaring weakness. The goal should be to be balanced on both sides of the ball.

 

 

Obviously the goal is to be good at everything.  All teams want to run the ball well and pass the ball well.  All teams want to stop the run and stop the pass.  But how many teams can maintain being good at everything for an extended period of time?  It's not sustainable. You have to compromise something. You have to have some identity.  Otherwise the danger of trying to be good at everything is that you end up not being great at anything. 

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