re: So our past few offseasons have just been absolutely terrible

Signing Graham and Galette only to trade/release them the next year were really the two huge frick ups. Just a lot of wasted dead money. The other bad mistake as a group has been bad drafting. The draft is kind of a crap shoot though, so that at least can be somewhat understandable.

Grubbs, Sproles, Lofton, whoever are aging vets who are better to get rid of now rather than later when they become truly bad. Sproles probably has more left in him than those other two. The deficiencies of the other two were really starting to already show. With a little luck Anthony has potential to already be an upgrade to Lofton in year 1.

Byrd seems like he was maybe used incorrectly early last year. Maybe part of that was Vacarro playing poorly. I don't know. Then the injury happened. That was just bad luck. We'll see this year if spending that much money on him ends up being a frick up in hindsight.