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We have some good young players
We have veterans.
Packers have been the youngest team in the league for a while now. Time to add that veteran or two to put them over the hump and win a Super Bowl.
In 1995/96 the Packers traded for Eugene Robinson and added Santana Dotson. Wolf added the right veterans to make the young team Super Bowl Champs.
The data says that building through the draft is the better way to go. That doesn't mean you can't win a Super Bowl the way the Jets are doing it - you can almost always point to an exception to a rule. But, pretty much all of the most successful teams were built primarily through the draft - the 49ers of the 1980s; the Cowboys of the early 1990s; the Patriots and the Steelers of the past decade.
Injuries suck, but unfortunately, it's not something that can be controlled very much. Maybe next year we get the benefit of fewer injuries.
I believe, even with injuries, we can win against anyone anywhere.Exactly correct, yet we keep hearing people insist that this team NEEDS to make some kind of big splash in free agency in order for us to compete. No, we don't. We don't need to sign outside talent to get us over the hump. I'm sorry, but the guys we had before injuries can do it.
The Patriots, Colts, Steelers and Chargers are all examples of teams that have been top competitors this past decade, and did so without making a ton of moves in free agency. A move here or there, and that's it. Guess what? That's what we do too. And, if healthy, we're a damn good team *right now*.
Well, skip the 1972 Dolphins part and tell me which veterans we should trade/sign from free agency to replace our starters with?
Exactly correct, yet we keep hearing people insist that this team NEEDS to make some kind of big splash in free agency in order for us to compete. No, we don't. We don't need to sign outside talent to get us over the hump. I'm sorry, but the guys we had before injuries can do it.
The Patriots, Colts, Steelers and Chargers are all examples of teams that have been top competitors this past decade, and did so without making a ton of moves in free agency. A move here or there, and that's it. Guess what? That's what we do too. And, if healthy, we're a damn good team *right now*.