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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenBlood" data-source="post: 447422" data-attributes="member: 1198"><p>Could Wolf have used those new rules so effectively had they not been enacted?  The Packers' problems before Plan B, restricted FA, tagging, etc weren't in drafting talent, it was in KEEPING talent.  All of those changes in the FA system made keeping talented players long enough to accumulate that talent all across the roster far too difficult.  We had draftees insisting on short contracts and draftees taking less money than we were offering after their first or second years to go else where to winning teams.  The rule changes put an end to that to a great extent.  It was very difficult to take a poor team and turn them around under the old FA rules.  And you act as if I said Wolf wasn't a factor at all.  I never said that.  I simply said that I believe the rule changes were the single biggest factor in being able to develop long-term success.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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