Originally posted by kem99:Some things never change....
Everyone agrees that their teams should "build through the draft"...right up until free agency opens up and then if their team does not immediately start signing free agents, they complain about the current young players and the team being cheap.
A team is bad and going nowhere and everyone want to "blow it up", do a complete rebuild and be patient with young players...right up until the first game is a disappointing loss and then all of sudden everyone forgets that its a new coaching staff, new coordinators, new schemes, 14 rookies (I think) that includes their entire draft class and 4 UDFAs, etc.
This is why Shanahan and Lynch were given 6 year contracts...so they could tear it down and build it back up the right way and not have to put band aids on things to get some short term success to try to keep their jobs. The last rebuild I can think of like this was Jimmy Johnson tearing down the Cowboys, releasing or trading most of their veteran players and building through the draft knowing that he was not going to get fired if it went bad initially. In case you're curious, I looked it up, the Cowboys lost 28-0 to the Saints in their first game under Johnson.
I'm not saying this rebuild is going to end up going the same way, but there are going to be days, weeks, etc. like this. Even in Atlanta, it took a year with for Shanahan's offense to take hold despite having Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and a lot better personnel in place on offense than what the 49ers have now.
Relax. It is going to be okay and work out...or, if it does not, that's not something you're really going to know until the end of 2019 season at the earliest. At a minimum, take a deep breath and care more about what they look like the last 4 games of the season than the first 4 games of the season.
Indeed. The 1989 Cowboys are a good comparison. The real test will be to see if the 2020 team will play like the 1992 Cowboys.