Offseasons in the Fox Era

[Mr. Scot]

Taking a look at the history and results purely from a numbers standpoint...

2002:

3 UFAs signed, 4 lost

9 draft picks, 5 make the squad

1 trade (Al Wallace)

7-9 record, no playoffs

2003:

5 UFAs signed, 2 lost

8 draft picks, 6 make the squad

0 trades

11-5 season, Super Bowl appearance

2004:

3 UFAs signed, 6 lost

7 draft picks, all make the squad

2 trades (Todd Fordham and Javier Collins)

7-9 record, no playoffs

2005:

5 UFAs signed, 2 lost

10 draft picks, 7 make the squad

2 trades (Jason Baker, Rod Gardner)

11-5 record, NFC Championship appearance

2006:

6 UFAs signed, 7 lost

8 draft picks, all make the squad

0 trades

8-8 record, no playoffs

2007:

1 UFA signed (Deke Cooper, Carr was cut and picked up), 3 lost

8 draft picks, all make the squad

1 trade (Chris Harris)

7-9 record, no playoffs

2008:

8 UFAs signed, 4 lost

9 draft picks, 8 make the squad

2 trades (Josh McCown, Kris Jenkins traded for picks)

12-4 season, lost first playoff game

2009:

0 UFAs signed (all vet pickups were cuts), 5 lost

7 draft picks, all make the squad

3 trades (JJ Jansen, Louis Leonard, Tank Tyler)

8-8 record, no playoffs

Info Sources:

Free Agent History

Draft History

Trade History

Worth noting that in the Fox era, only one time has the team traded a player solely for picks, that being the Kris Jenkins trade. It's mostly player for player or picks for a player.

I started this off as a comparison of this offseason with the 2002 and 2003 offseasons when Fox was just starting to build the team, but for now all I've been able to look at was raw numbers. The team's history pages don't have easy tracking for players picked up (or lost) from cuts, waivers, etc. I'll have to look for another source on that.

I'll have to go deeper on it later.

[Urrymonster]

The number of trades surprises me, I had forgotten about a lot of them. Common sense suggests another trade will be made, be it in or out, so anyone worried about the current status of the roster needs to be patient

[pantherfan81]

Wow nice breakdown. I had forgotten how many UFA we signed in '08, that's crazy. This year will be lowest amount of picks we've had in the Fox era. Barring any trades of course.

[PantherProfessor]

nice work, interesting to see that the season's that we lose more UFA than sign, we dont have a playoff appearance....

[Crixtala]

So, every season we signed more UFA's than we lose, we have a winning record...?

EDIT: Damn... beat me by a minute. Gotta stop letting work emails get in the way of my Huddle productivity.