JeffGollin
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(Pardon me for wearing my gritty Vince Lombardi game face this morning):
1. Signing Calais is an important early step this season;
2. But it's only one of many things the team must get right in order to be successful. (Signing the rooks. Developing the rooks. Finding cap room. Turning Skelton and Kolb into big-time QB's. A few "in box"/"out box roster moves. Stuff like that).
3. And even then, some moves will prove to be shrewd and others will turn out to be dumb. (It's the nature of the NFL beast - Injuries occur. You misjudge players. Other teams outcompete you).
4. What you try to do is to maximize your "batting average" so that your ratio of good decisions vs. bad ones is better than your competitors.
5. Steering a clean path through the minefield of daily decisions - to strike a balance between such things as being stragically disciplined vs. being overly cautious or being a spendthrift vs. a tightwad - is not for the faint of heart.
6. In this regard, current Cardinal management hasn't been perfect, but I do believe that they tend to make the soundest percentage plays and are right more often than they are wrong.
7. Percentage-wise, signing Calais was the right thing to do, but it doesn't guarantee a positive outcome; but it does improve the odds more than a little.
1. Signing Calais is an important early step this season;
2. But it's only one of many things the team must get right in order to be successful. (Signing the rooks. Developing the rooks. Finding cap room. Turning Skelton and Kolb into big-time QB's. A few "in box"/"out box roster moves. Stuff like that).
3. And even then, some moves will prove to be shrewd and others will turn out to be dumb. (It's the nature of the NFL beast - Injuries occur. You misjudge players. Other teams outcompete you).
4. What you try to do is to maximize your "batting average" so that your ratio of good decisions vs. bad ones is better than your competitors.
5. Steering a clean path through the minefield of daily decisions - to strike a balance between such things as being stragically disciplined vs. being overly cautious or being a spendthrift vs. a tightwad - is not for the faint of heart.
6. In this regard, current Cardinal management hasn't been perfect, but I do believe that they tend to make the soundest percentage plays and are right more often than they are wrong.
7. Percentage-wise, signing Calais was the right thing to do, but it doesn't guarantee a positive outcome; but it does improve the odds more than a little.
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