It’s a great question. Somehow I think one of the reasons we see this is this front offices’ lack of aggressively trying to upgrade their roster like other teams are constantly doing. While Stephen Jones is lecturing us on the challenges of the salary cap, GMs like Les Snead of t(e rams, Brett Veach of the chiefs and Jason Licht of the Bucs are making big moves to upgrade their roster.
That may seem like an odd connection to why we can’t compete as well outside the NFCE. But I think it’s totally connected. The teams wringing their hands over the cap and being passive aren’t winning playoff games. OurFO is way behind the times.
Good post Bob… I agree that the “braintrust” has certainly had a negative effect in the team.
I think the FO culture and personality has definitely affected the climate, culture, and quality of the product on the field.
JJ and SJ are smug and arrogant and assume that their strategies and plans will work, without much thought to contingencies.
Great example is when they decided WR by committee was the right way forward, then coughed up the #1 for Coop mid season. Reactive leadership rather than proactive. They consistently overvalue their players, and refuse to consider adding quality players through FA and are somehow shocked when they continue to get the same results after applying the same strategies lol
This kind of leadership leads to the team always seeming to be a few steps behind the rest of the league… which could certainly be reflective in their W/L record vs those teams.
Add in 10+ years of Garrett preaching and focusing on winning the division, and the fact that the rest of the division has largely been weak sisters for the last decade— and the record discrepancy can start to make a bit more sense
