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Best Free Agency Ever?

Proudiddy

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...just to think if Gettleman had been with from the start?

Not criticizing, but thoughts like this (i.e. what could have been) depress me :(

I would add that my estimation of how good this free agent period has been will certainly go up if I'm given a reason to make a change to my sig pic.

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Can at least say that I'm impressed with what Gettleman has done so far. It definitely looks like this has the potential to be a great offseason. I have more hope for the future of this team than I've had for some time.

This. The fact that Hurney is gone has given me hope for the future.

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I think I was making this thread with the idea of "what did we not need to fix vs. what we did need to fix." That 1996 class with Beuerlein, Walls, Greene, and Davis, will probably NEVER be matched in terms of quality of player. That's 3 possible hall of famers in one FA class, all in their prime. A class like this is probably impossible to sign in FA these days.

That being said, we have a franchise QB now, so the holes should be easier to fill, yet we still had significant ones all around the roster. I also probably shouldn't have said "cap situation notwithstanding" because that does have a huge bearing on how incredible this FA period has been, all things considered.

Perhaps I was a prisoner of the moment in making this thread. Of course I knew who Beuerlein, Walls, Davis, and Greene were when we signed them back in '96, but I didn't understand how big that was back then because I was like 12 years old.

If we make a run at the Superbowl this year though, this FA class could be considered one of the, if not THE greatest ever, and that's all I'm concerned with.

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