[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

The Steelers have had one of the best oline over the past two decades. They know the importance of it and will fix it. They also have a number one pass rusher already. Something we have yet to find despite significant investment. Oh and they consistently kick our ass every year.

The pats try to fix their mistakes. The drafted two TEs then signed two TEs this year. They signed a bunch of FAs and they have some really good players coming back from a covid hiatus. Finally they drafted a QB that fits their system perfectly and could potentially be set at the position again after one year of needing a QB.

The Chiefs lost their two starting tackles, of course they got exposed. No one in the league has depth at tackle. What did they do? They completely overhauled their line. Signed a good right tackle, traded for a new left tackle, drafted the best center in the draft, then at the end of the draft they took a really good mailer of a guard who should have gone much higher. They did a great fucking job.

The Saints need to find a QB now, but they have been consistently good in personnel decisions. You act like they did something wrong and had to let people go, the only reason they had to dump people is because of a global pandemic which no one saw coming. They will rebound next year, and mostly they just pushed money around to make it work because that’s what good teams do.

If there wasn’t a pandemic we would be what? 40-60 million more under? Next year we will be at the top again. The difference is those teams make changes and try to fix their issues. Castonzo hinted at retirement last year and they kinda talked him out of it. They should have been looking right then and there for a replacement. I had a feeling he would be gone after this season and now this is where we are. It’s like we have no sense of urgency. Oh well I guess we could have been better this season, but maybe next year we will. I feel like we wasted an opportunity with Luck’s last year, then again last year with Rivers we were almost good enough to go farther. Could a speed rusher have made a difference? Guess we will never know. We seem to embrace good but not good enough.

At least I hope we might have fixed passrush. I want to see what Paye can do when all he has to do is shoot the gap. But still it’s gonna take time for these rookies to develop.

I think you underestimate the desire of the front office to win the SB. Other than that, you make some good points.