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Seems the best teams don't rebuild, they reload. Meaning you don't blow things up from one regime to another. You keep the pieces that are helpful and reload around them. Live and learn I guess...


Another poster stated that two seasons ago, the zeitgeist of the jungle was to blow it all up... Here's my experience in the jungle, and I think it holds for most social settings: when a movement is in progress that has been established as happening no matter the what, the majority will fall in line, whether they have faith in the plan or not... That was the feeling I got when the blow it up movement was occurring.


Another example was the Blake isn't starting this season movement.


One thing to notice about this tendency: certain folks will stick with the zeitgeist far after this process has revealed itself to be flawed

I think an arguement could be made for both approaches. The Seahawks took a similar route to "Blow it up" when Pete Carroll took over and it obviously paid off. The Patriots have been "retooling" for a decade plus now and its obviously paid dividends as well.


Then you have teams like the Jaguars and Raiders who seem to be stuck in rebuild mode. I guess it depends on what talent you have to work with. As you see in the article I linked, the Jags didn't have much.

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