We make minor alterations to the roster while maintaining the bottom line of few impact players and overpaid as a whole. I wouldn't call it rebuilding as much as Jeff Ireland's caliber, like the moron in the next cubicle.
Today the Patriots and Jets signed former premium picks who had fallen out of favor with their organization. That's the right idea, the one Ireland stumbled upon last season with Reggie Bush, despite assertions here and elsewhere that Bush didn't have special skills and was little more than Lorenzo Booker.
I knew it was a fluke, and that we'd go back to signing gems like Artis Hicks and Richard Marshall. Those are the types who you want to rationalize as decent, far better than they are. Grab info off the internet and spin it more positively than it deserves. Then the season starts and guess what, they turn out to be Artis Hicks and Richard Marshall, obscure and expendable for good reason.
I post on plenty of golf sites. There's a derisive term called PGA Tour Poser. You know the type, the ones who believe all the hype toward latest and greatest clubs and spend $500 on a white driver. They throw grass in the air, take painful number of practice swings, and have their glove folded neatly in their back right pocket. Then they step to the tee and offer a remarkable arsenal of skulls, slices, tops, and idiot marks.
That's Jeff Ireland as a general manager. He's allowed to put on a suit and grab his briefcase every day and play general manager, shanking every decision. Among 32 teams you'll have some of those and it's simply our turn, no different than the trainer who wins the Derby one year then spends the next decade entering plodders who have no business in the starting gate.
BTW, people bet on those plodders. The win pool is never zero. That's like Jeff Ireland's apologists.