OT: 2019 Football Thread: Part III – Danny Dimes and Sammy Spleens Edition

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The perfect exhibit of an NFL team that is perpetually bad is Tampa Bay. They are always bad, and they have multiple high picks. They were the team that was notorious for having so much money to give free agents and suck.

Well, we've been duped by that with the Jets. The Giants might be in that same mold coming up this offseason. They have a boat load of money.

All that means is that they don't have guys on their roster worth keeping around after being drafted. Good teams rarely get a bunch of good free agents because they have to pay their players first and never have the funds to get those guys when they actually hit the market.

Reese fluked into a good year last time we were in this situation. The year after we went 3-13...
 
The perfect exhibit of an NFL team that is perpetually bad is Tampa Bay. They are always bad, and they have multiple high picks. They were the team that was notorious for having so much money to give free agents and suck.

Well, we've been duped by that with the Jets. The Giants might be in that same mold coming up this offseason. They have a boat load of money.

All that means is that they don't have guys on their roster worth keeping around after being drafted. Good teams rarely get a bunch of good free agents because they have to pay their players first and never have the funds to get those guys when they actually hit the market.
These teams don’t have coaches

Tampa Bay at least has Arians now. He’s old, but he’s easily their best coach since Gruden. Giants have had scrubs since Coughlin, and the Jets haven’t had a passable coach since Rex.
 
The perfect exhibit of an NFL team that is perpetually bad is Tampa Bay. They are always bad, and they have multiple high picks. They were the team that was notorious for having so much money to give free agents and suck.

Well, we've been duped by that with the Jets. The Giants might be in that same mold coming up this offseason. They have a boat load of money.

All that means is that they don't have guys on their roster worth keeping around after being drafted. Good teams rarely get a bunch of good free agents because they have to pay their players first and never have the funds to get those guys when they actually hit the market.

The Bucs were a powerhouse during the Sapp/Brooks years (a powerhouse for the NFL anyway, a SB win and making the playoffs most years) and that run only ended like a decade ago.

The closest I've seen to a team I thought might never make the playoffs again were the post Sanders Lions but even they bounced back to respectability, albeit after a decade and half a dozen coaches.

None of this counts the Browns of course, who are the only real hopeless slopfest team now and forever. They seem to be the exception to every rule.
 
The Giants need two guru's to coach each line and it needs to build a solid D. You take care of those two areas and the rest is minor adjustments. The backfield of Jones and Barkley is set and they have decent receivers. The lines at best cancel the opposition but on most plays the lines get man handled as in the Dallas game. Very rarely do they have any push back. I'm not smart enough to know if technique or lack of talent is to blame but I do know the results, the lines suck. You are not going to win any games when you can't control the trenches.
 

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