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MikeT22

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I know man, I had hopes they might have learned from last season, or felt after back to back failures to get past the divisional round that we needed to be more aggressive.

Then they broke the whole "something big" story and I feel suckered, AGAIN.

These clowns don't change.
We will probably sign a 30-something yr old WR in the next couple of weeks. boom
 
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I don't think this is completely correct, as least as far as how the front office looks at it. The Joneses have made it clear that they do not believe you win by paying high prices for outside free agents. They believe the road to the Super Bowl is paved with solid drafting and FA fill-ins. They probably see back-to-back 12-win seasons as confirmation of their philosophy instead of seeing it as the reason the team has been unable to do more than that.
Teams that go to the SB tend to do well drafting, signing FA’s and making trades.

Dallas, not so much
 

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Not defeatist, just realistic. Can't worry about things we can't control.
Well, I consider it realistic, but I understand that some fans still have far more hope that I have these days. Maybe they're younger and can process the disappointment better than I can. I'm just at a I'll-believe-it-when-I-see-it point in my fanship. I can live with being seen as a defeatist if some can't face the reality of it.
 

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Teams that go to the SB tend to do well drafting, signing FA’s and making trades.

Dallas, not so much
The problem with the Joneses is they don't understand the correlation. Back when we were spending heavily in free agency, we were drafting poorly, so we weren't winning despite those big investments and decided they weren't worth it. (Never mind that we also were investing poorly.) So when we finally got focused in on drafting well, we stopped using free agency well to supplement those good picks.
 

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I guess the silver lining is watching the Eagles roster get depleted. Granted, they have multiple 1st round picks to fill the void.
 
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