Vindicate
2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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I think there's an argument to be made that very early on Bill understood how to manage the cap better than other teams and had a more responsible sustainable approach. But as time went on, other teams like Rams figured out how to just throw money at high talent players and kick the can down the road constantly maybe only needing one big reset year that they would need to struggle with to get back to business. Which just meant later on teams could out talent us and without Brady being a big equalizer, it was unsustainable.
I'm not sure what year it started happening, I want to say the first ludicrous contract I remember was Flacco w/ the Ravens, but it was one of those monster contracts where I was felt like the concept of building a competitive "middle class team" was going to become more and more impossible, as various skill positions end up consuming a lot of that squeeze space to build very quality depth. Now TE's/WR's/QB's/OL all fetch big premiums.
Bill's philosophy started to age with the change towards offense; not from a game planning sense as he is still the best out there - we have continually heard, including with the Eagles this year, that BB gives blueprint for stifling for emerging top offenses.
What felt like it aged was this drafting process (most obviously) and the cap management (I'm less inclined to say that with certainty, but moreso gut vibes.)
Do you guys think that if today's market was applied to teams of the past, we might not see the same offensive lineups as they'd be too costly?