there's part of me that agrees with avoiding the rollercoaster and keeping a team "good" while waiting for the planets to align and all the right pieces fall into place,,, but if the front office isn't willing or capable to make that last step then it's really not a Super Bowl strategy. The right pieces never fall into place when you're hoarding second tier players.
The FO is stuck in their ways. They over-value their own players, over-pay to sign their own guys, avoid spending any real dollars in FA, and sell players returning from injury, rookie contributions, and players they resign as “additions” and reasons to hope in a different outcome each year.
They are freeing up money to extend Dak and that move will be hailed as their big “addition” this offseason and the “biggest piece of the puzzle to figure out”
Then they will hype up Diggs and Overshown’s return from injury as “additions” and they will talk up guys like Hoffman and Waletzko as legit players and reasons they felt they could let Tyon and Biadasz walk away (I am not a huge fan of Biadasz, but I doubt they sign an adequate replacement and bet they go cheap there and count on Hoffman stepping up)
They may add a vet FA LBer like Kendricks— but no one that will really move the needle. They will of course get excited about this year’s draft haul while reminding us all about how Mazi and Schoonmaker and Eric Scott Jr are all destined to contribute in big ways this year.
It is laughable at how predictable it all is at this point.
We are looking at a 9-8 season and likely a new coaching staff in 2025 that they will then hype up as “the answer “ McCarthy never was.