It's actually the most important way to build a team. Bad drafts killing good/contending teams are undefeated.
I didn't argue that the draft was not important, I did argue that it isn't the only way to build a team.
If you don't agree, take the last several SB champions, make them play with just their own draft picks, see what happens.
If you say bad drafts kill good/contending teams, well yes, that's what is supposed to happen. You get good, your draft position drops, it gets harder to build via the draft. If you can do better than expectation while having bad draft position of course you're at an advantage. The fact we've been good over twenty plus years shows we aren't as bad at team building as some here like to suggest, but that doesn't fit their desire to be snarky so the butt hurt rolls on.
So many times here I read "but he's a 1st rounder!" as if picking late in the round is the same as picking top five...
You mention the impact of bad drafts, what about the impact of successive bad FA acquisitions? For instance, da Jete signing an aging Revis for top dollars knowing he was on the way down, signing LeVeon Bell for massive dollars at the RB position, who had just sat out a season so clearly wasn't going to be a great asset in the locker room? Keeps the team at the bottom of the standings, makes it so other FAs don't want to come or need to be overpaid to play for them.
