re: Does anybody feel this team is gonna be any better?

Good teams routinely retain their own players while adding role players in free agency and building through the draft.

I'm not crazy about the Fleener contract, but I like the player. Hopefully the other free agent signings are modest.

Like others have said it's too early to tell, but you can see that they're trying to be more patient in FA. Before 2011 that's how they operated for the most part. I think Payton wanted that to change in conjunction with the culture change.