THIS. Now, granted, we would have been hard-pressed to improve where we needed to in FA. Outside of Manning, there was no available QB that we should have gone after. The Offensive Tackle market started out thin. We did get ourselves a starting RG (maybe starts at RT). Okay, so we really can't worry about that, as we didn't have much of a chance to do anything there.
WR is a position that we had ample opportunity to address, however. There was a deep, deep crop of FA WRs. We have Fitz and Roberts, a #1 and a #3. People (like Shane) may argue that Roberts is a #2, and the team certainly seems to be slotting him there. The problem is that, if your star #1 is not a stretch-the-field speed deep threat, your #2 really needs to be. And Roberts, while certainly improving his game, is NOT a bona fide deep threat burner. This is where we've completely flubbed this offseason: not using the deep FA WR pool to our advantage.
All that said, we pretty much had to bring Doucet back. Because of our utter failure at upgrading our WR corps when the players to do so were available, we backed ourselves into the corner. So now, we have a #1 WR and pretty much two #3 possession receivers. And hot garbage to fill the rest of the WR slots. Great.
