(02-11-2020, 05:32 PM)D-Money Wrote:

(02-10-2020, 09:40 PM)Rico Wrote: And refresh my memory, how many Super Bowls have we won since we picked up that boatload of free agents in Coughlin's first year?  And how is our cap looking now?

And thank you for bringing up Watkins and Matthieu.  Two minor acquistions....i.e. Small final pieces to a larger puzzle.  They were hardly major FA pickups.

Were we not 1 game away from the super bowl? and should have won that game for sure if the coaches didn't blatantly give away the game. Majority of Sacksonville were free agents aside from Jack,Tel, Yan and Ramsey, 4 players. There was no issue with the cap it was just bad management . Now that we damn near let everyone go somewhere else, look at where we are now. We had the money and used it right on free agents and then got sucked into blowing money on a franchise qb, when we already had a winning formula/roster

Good grief...and we had to let them go because we signed so many free agents.  You can't pay everybody.  You sign pieces.  You do not build through FA.  None of the good teams build through free agency.  If you try to build a team through free agency it'll work maybe for a year (sound familiar?)...and if you don't win that year you just [BLEEP] yourself.

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(02-11-2020, 05:42 PM)D-Money Wrote:

(02-10-2020, 09:40 PM)Rico Wrote: And refresh my memory, how many Super Bowls have we won since we picked up that boatload of free agents in Coughlin's first year?  And how is our cap looking now?

And thank you for bringing up Watkins and Matthieu.  Two minor acquistions....i.e. Small final pieces to a larger puzzle.  They were hardly major FA pickups.

Also, how good have we been since we let most of those players go else where and started chasing this franchise qb dream that all of the fans and media claim ever team needs

Who was the qb for 85 bears or 72 Dolphins, even the Ravens winning with Flacco. We had the right focus with Defense now .. we are trash still looking for a franchise qb, hopefully we keep Minshew and focus on getting our D back to where it needs to be.

This is so irrelevant.  You're talking about 35 and 48 years ago.  Completely different era with playing style and especially free agency.

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