Grier started trading picks for stars hoping to win big before Tua got paid. While it was exciting at the time, I think this is where the build went sideways. We would’ve had more high picks and would’ve been able to resign our own guys. Instead, we are paying big money to skill position guys with not much talent on the interior.
Exactly this.
There’s no shortcuts to winning at a sustainable level and having future success. You have to keep homegrown talent and hit on picks in the draft, which unfortunately Chris Grier has been abysmal.