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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanindaup" data-source="post: 502743" data-attributes="member: 8875">This type of argument is pointless. If x happened instead of y, then team z would be better. Let me give you an example of how events can have a ripple effect. Suppose for example, the Packers draft Barry Sanders instead of Tony Mandarich. Sanders was a good enough player to make Wayne Fontes a semi successful coach, and the Lions wallowed in mediocrity for years with guys like Scott Mitchell, Andre Ware and Rodney Peete behind center. If the Packers had been reaching the playoffs with Sanders, would the Packer brass had the incentive to dump Tom Braatz and hire Ron Wolf? Would Favre have stayed on Glanville's bench? Who else besides Wolf recognized his talent? And who besides Holmgren could mold him into the greatest quarterback of the late 90's and early 2000's?Things happened as they did, the teams are who they are because of what they have done in the past. Vikings (the real ones) used to believe that the tapestry of your fate has already been woven and the best you could hope for was to unravel a thread now and then. Speaking of threads becoming unravelled...</blockquote>

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