Agree and understand the collective venting but, to your point, we judge Ozzie with the benefit of hindsight. Something he simply does not have when building the team and also in the context of the draft itself. He can take calculated risks as to whom will still be on the board or not, but I'm sure that strategy fails as often, if not more often than, it succeeds. No one wins every year. It just doesn't happen in the salary cap era. Even teams like the Pats and Colts of the mid-2000s are bolstered by terrible divisions. We play in one of the most competitive divisions in football, to say "If Ozzie would just make the right choices (read: the choices I think he should make), we would never have a losing season" is off base bordering on ludicrous. Tell me, do you really think if we keep Q and go all-in on offense last offseason, we make the playoffs? Even with our additions, the defense was middling last year. Take back those additions and you have a bottom of the barrel defense and MAYBE a top 10-15 offense (and that's being extremely generous). When was the last time an upper-middle of the pack offense and no defense won a championship? Rarely, if ever. We're just not going to win by going all-in on offense. Not gonna happen, not with this cast. But we've proven that with a turnover forcing defense and middle of the road offense we can get to the dance, heat up, and take home the prize. That's the team our management is building.
