You need to question though when you have possibly the best QB of all time, have we done enough to try and win it all..sure this "value bargain shopping" has worked to get us to the AFC- championship game along with some luck. but we HAVE NOT won a superbowl in 9years. nearly a decade having one of the top QB's of all time. something needs to change with the way the team does business
if we dont go cheap on Deion Branch..maybe we win a superbowl in 2006
Disagree.
The Krafts run the team with one, often-stated, strategic objective going into every season: be competitive to win the division and get into the playoffs. They don't talk about SB's, unlike Snyder and Wrecks.
I am convinced that they run it with that objective because they understand that they are playing in a League with a winner take all, "one loss and you're done" playoff format where luck, official's calls and "breaks" often determine the winner. They plan to be as good as they can be every season while always keeping the big picture in view; they don't waste too much energy on worrying about what might look good one year with one or another player.
If an official doesn't review a call on the Tuck play, they don't even get to play to go to SB XXXVI.
Who knows what happens in XXXVIII if that K doesn't go OB and they don't get the ball on the 40 with time winding down? "Mo" was definitely heading in the wrong direction at that point.
If a guy who never plays another down in the NFL doesn't make a one in a million catch with Rodney on his back, they have TB's fourth ring and go 19--0.
If Welker doesn't drop a tough but catch-able ball (or, if you think that's unfair to Wes, if an inconsistent and erratic Eli Manning doesn't make one perfect sideline pass in that same game from deep in his own territory) they have his fifth ring.
They understand that anything can happen once you get into the Playoffs and they don't try to please us fans by making every move that we think they "should" make.
On the Branch point...who else might they not have signed if they had resigned him?