The owner likes shooting his mouth off about what other teams do, particularly the last SB winner and the NFC rep this year. He doesn't like the risk.
What say you? You Risky Rick or Safe Sam?
Would you take an all-in year if it meant losing seasons for the following 2-3 years? And no assurance your all-in risk even pays off in the season.
Ya see, that's his problem, being irrelevant so he doesn't get so many interviews and face time. That's all it is, it isn't about the downside of the risk because they will still buy tickets, he won't lose anything monetarily by going all-in.
It is an interesting situation if an owner does say go for it as Kronke did in LA and Lurie has in PHL because they're won the bet. Now, how long it takes LA to recover to contention status remains to be seen. And we have yet to see the 2023 PHL roster.
How bad do you want that 6th ring? Willing to have a couple of back-to-back 6 or 7 win seasons to go for it? It's one thing to win it all but are you prepared to lose it, not make the SB and then suffer for a couple of seasons?
The thing people forget with this type of bellyaching and putting together an assembly line Super Bowl team, if only you put in the money and risk away being competitive next year.
Is that true, Across the board? After the Cowboys won their trifecta of Super Bowls in the 1990s, I remember them having an identity crisis.
They had to rebuild instead of constantly retooling, restaffing and regrouping. Then they went for the big risk players, who, if they taught you anything, it's that any star player is still really only as good as his teammates.
I say the same thing when it comes to government. No matter the system, any system is only as good as the people running it. The historically more successful teams don't do what the Rams did or the Eagles did.
Those teams merely won a Super Bowl in the past five years. But let's not forget the Eagles still haven't played the game yet, and I'm told that's why they actually hold these contests instead of predicting them.
And predicting the outcome of next season based on some recency-biased formula from last season, based off of the Rams and the Eagles, doesn't seem like the most sure-fire way to win a championship anyway. I mean, there are, theoretically, other ways to do it.
Think about cultures like the Jain, where they have Ahimsa as a prime tenet of their belief system. They take it to extremes to insects to the point of even helping the insects by allowing them to feed off of themselves. But, the goal is not to harm.
Signing the wrong free agent to bolster your team in the now, even if it sacrifices the youth and potential of the team you can make going forward, is what we did in the past that never worked out.
It's a blueprint, people will say.
A blueprint for what?
The moves the Eagles made and the moves that the Rams made were not even the same moves. They were moves that were made that were specific to that team's needs at the time.
Do you really think a free agent from last year would have put us over the top this year?
Who? And how can you prove it? Because the Eagles did it in 2018 and the Rams last year?
Personally, I don't think it would have. I believe it's more about the team you build and how that team works as extensions of each other as a team. I'll take a group who does that well any day over some rent a cop deal with the proverbial big fish NFL free agent. Maher would have still missed those kicks, injuries still happen, and we still lost 3 days of preparation, compared to the 9ers after having to travel to their house, after also traveling to the 8-9 Bucs home playoff game.
The part nobody seems to get here is that being competitive and failing at it, is part of the road to winning. I think we'd all regret going back to the days of the early 2000s.
There's a saying in life: you win some, you lose some. Same goes for the NFL, for every single team under the sun. I like the path we're on, but I also see it as unique to our team. We've got some key components to win a Super Bowl. We had a legitimate chance to get there, with the team we had.
But things happen. Like, you get 3 full days less to prepare for the game when you count it was an away game and travel time. That's a deal for a game that counts as a win or loss, no matter how many points you win by.
Our kicker, who I still think should be investigated, had a bout of amnesia during our two most crucial games forgetting all about the fact that he was a professional kicker. Pollard gets hurt when there's still plenty of time left, and Peters is out, which I think would have made Dak more comfortable.
We can blame Dak, but in reality,
