Xenos Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Colts are doing it right compare to their days with Grigson: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/18/free-agency-spending-cowboys-kyler-murray-tyreek-hill Quote Most good teams didn’t spend. And here’s proof, using Spotrac’s offseason spending tracker for 2019 as our guide: • Five of the six lightest-spending teams made the playoffs last year, and two of the three lightest spenders played in the Super Bowl. Ten of the 12 playoffs teams from last year are in the bottom 14 in spending thus far. And two of the four in that cluster that didn’t make the playoffs (Atlanta, Carolina) have been in the Super Bowl and made the playoffs multiple times over the last four years. • That leaves two of the 18 heaviest spenders that made the playoffs. One was eighth (Philly), the other was 12th (Baltimore). • It’s not unusual that it’d skew this way—good teams don’t spend because they’ve already paid a lot of their own guys and likely don’t feel as desperate. But a quick look at the recent past shows that this year the divide between the habits of the haves and have-nots was much more pronounced. So how do you explain it? Well, that part’s simple too. “It’s just a bad class,” said one NFC exec. “This class was always ‘buyer beware.’ Even the guys who got franchised, not that they’re one-year wonders, but players like Frank Clark, Dee Ford—it’s more just that you wouldn’t be sure if you would want to go invest significantly in them.” And maybe that’s why Bill Belichick was in Barbados while the rest of us were getting all hysterical back here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Lee Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 27 minutes ago, SBLIII said: The mistake the Colts made was not establish the run. It was pretty obvious that drop back passing with the Chiefs sitting on an early lead wasn't going to work against the Chiefs pass rush. You can't expect it when running is not big part of offense during regular seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game3525 Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 On 3/23/2019 at 11:08 AM, Xenos said: Colts are doing it right compare to their days with Grigson: https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/18/free-agency-spending-cowboys-kyler-murray-tyreek-hill Yup. The big mistake Grigson made after the 2012 season was signing a bunch of mediocre free agents to big money. Ballard is doing this right by being more conservative when it comes to free agency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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