Don’t Rush the Process

I think key to us winning a Super Bowl is just to stay the course for better or worse. Teams that make big, splashy moves tend to do good for a season or two and then fizzle out, or never get off the ground. There are simply too many positions to fill to get veteran talent for everything. Super Bowl teams also tend to have head coach and coordinator longevity. There was some study that showed successful teams try to keep a stable coaching room and team environment. Teams are incentivized by revenue and attention to make big moves and win-now moves, but that leads to problems down the road with lack of draft capital, high payroll and lack of team chemistry. Much as we hate it now, we just have to tough it out. Eagles won after having an epic choke year where they looked uninspiring as heck at the end of the year. That team could be us, the leap often happens when we least expect it. Patriots stayed the course more or less and won a Super Bowl after a decade and formed a dynasty. The one caveat is you need a foundational block at QB. I believe CJ is our best shot at that block, and if we can't get a better block (which is not available right now), we have to live and die with this path. No point in getting panicked, just hope Caserio actually starts regressing to the mean on OLine, keep CJ, and replace our old defense with new draft picks (which we have been hitting on). There'll be a season where our injury luck is good and we finally have most of the pieces to make a push. I'm also a Rockets fan, we got a few cracks with Harden and this year we're finally getting another bite at the biscuit after the slumps of rebuild town and the pains of the first return to playoffs. You just never know, but I do know that trying to buy a whole superteam rarely works, and even when it does, most of the good pieces were already there and the supporting cast was built through shrewd drafting and getting max value out of low-trade-value players.