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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 458330" data-attributes="member: 4300">I agree with Wood Chipper: Asking for the biggest mistake leads to negativity (not that there’s anything wrong with that). The part of this post with which I agree is the call for foresight instead of hindsight. Ted Thompson and his staff have to make decisions in real time and the best criticism of those decisions happen in real time too (before their outcome is obvious). The other thing I’d like to see is when posters advocate for UFA acquisitions they reconcile the costs of those acquisitions with the roster. For example, Landry signed for $3.5M this season and Hillis for $2.8M. How would that impact extending Jennings or others they may be looking at extending even though their deals aren’t up after this season? I’m still nervous about the depth on the OL. My guess is the acquisition of Reggie Wells signals that Lang is the backup LT until Sherrod gets healthy. Wells played LG last Thursday and IMO he’s more an OG or at most RT at this point in his career. I would have preferred they signed the best veteran (true) LT available so if Newhouse gets hurt only one position is affected instead of two. But they obviously made the cost/benefit determination Wells was the best available option. It’s not great fodder for this thread but I just don’t know enough to disagree with that; for example what was the cost of acquiring others, how would they likely affect the locker room, how close is Sherrod to coming back, and what are their expectations of his play at LT at this point?  I did like Thompson’s draft in that he was aggressive in adding defenders for Capers. And while he was aggressive in trading up twice he wasn’t foolish in doing so; he “won” those trades in terms of value given vs. value received.  BTW, Ryan Pickett counts as another significant UFA acquisition by Thompson. IMO acquiring Woodson and Pickett in one off season eclipses what Thompson has done in that regard this off season by a significant margin. </blockquote>

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