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Lot of media (and Rodell) falling in love with the big offseason winners. But, let's step back here and take a real look at things. We did that, offering our own "objective" rankings and they are a bit different than most in that Seattle is not in the top-2 and the Vikes are not quite as high as some may think: http://wp.me/p29VCs-i9
NFC North:
2. Packers
8. Bears
9. Vikings
12. Lions
What I found most amazing is that most focus exclusively on the additions, while not accounting for the subtractions. For instance, Seattle got Avril and Bennett in free agency, therefore they must be better! But, no one talks about the fact that Chris Clemmons is injured and he's better than both. So those two are short-term replacements that probably won't duplicate what they got from Clemmons last year. Therefore, they didn't actually get better. Plus, let's be honest for a second, did any of us really fear Avril? He was a "big" name only because the DE market was weak.
So what do you think? Which are right, which are wrong?
NFC North:
2. Packers
8. Bears
9. Vikings
12. Lions
What I found most amazing is that most focus exclusively on the additions, while not accounting for the subtractions. For instance, Seattle got Avril and Bennett in free agency, therefore they must be better! But, no one talks about the fact that Chris Clemmons is injured and he's better than both. So those two are short-term replacements that probably won't duplicate what they got from Clemmons last year. Therefore, they didn't actually get better. Plus, let's be honest for a second, did any of us really fear Avril? He was a "big" name only because the DE market was weak.
So what do you think? Which are right, which are wrong?