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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 492563" data-attributes="member: 7277">Rodell -- every team wants to win a SB.  I assure you that there is not a GM out there right now stroking his chin saying, "Hmm, I just don't really want to win a Super Bowl, so I don't think I'm going to get involved in free agency.  I don't want to increase my chances of winning a Super Bowl, I want to decrease them."   And no it does not "seem that way".  It seems that GM's who don't take the knee-jerk, "SIGN SOMEBODY, ANYBODY RIGHT NOW BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE GETS HIM!"  tend to have long, sustained track records of success like Thompson has.   If you were GM, I'm pretty sure we would have emptied the piggy bank for Peppers in 2010, and done anything we could to land Asomugha the next year.  We wouldn't even be discussing free agents right now, we would be talking about how on earth we're going to find a way to afford Rodgers at all.   If you look at recent Super Bowl champions, almost none of them had a prior offseason of significant FA signings.  There is historical evidence that these big name FA signings haven't led to instant titles like people think they will in March.  I don't know what else to tell you.</blockquote>

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