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

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if they weren't part of the plan, then they shouldn't have gotten the deals in the first place.

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this falls under the whole hindsight is 20/20. I don't think anyone would argue that Junior was part of the future of this team until he had an epic meltdown of an offseason. There have been many posts, articles, comments from players that basically confirm that once Junior got his money, he completely changed. Not sure how you fault the front office for that.

In regards to Jimmy, I agree that it did not make sense to make this move 1 year after you gave him a big deal. The only rationale around it was SP decided he wanted to focus more on the run as most of our wins last year came when we ran the ball successfully. This philosophical change happened a year after the big contract. If Junior doesn't have his meltdown of an offseason; I don't think that trade hurts that much.

They also tried to trade Stills to Seattle (rumors only, but confirmed in Miami deal) for Unger; but had to part w/ Jimmy to get the Center they wanted. Plus, this may go into the Sproles category where the front office & coaches realized we were too predictable when Jimmy was in the game. It seamed we were throwing every time he was on the field.