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Steelers. Patriots. Colts. All better in my opinion. And I'm a Packer homer.
Those are all AFC teams. I'm asking about the best NFC team.
Ah. So you did. My bad. Hard to argue with your point then.
This is a poll about NFC teams only.
1967-68(1st 2 SB wins) was not the free agent era. Cowboys or Forty Niners would get my vote.
The free agency era started in the mid 1990s, with the Cowboys title teams in the early 1990s being the last team built before the free agency era. The Packers went to 3 super bowls in the free agency era, 1996, 1997 and 2010. The Cowboys and 49ers have never been there in the free agency era.
Two Super Bowls in the 90's
The Cowboys have never been to the Super Bowl in the free agency era. They were the last team constructed "the old way" before free agency became a reality. Free agency tore them apart. So really we begin the free agency era with the Packers-Patriots super bowl in 1996.
So wait who has the AFC East had?
Chad Henne and JP Losman. C'mon, try to keep up.
I definitely think they stand out with distinction as having done the best in the NFC in the free agency era.
Its not convenience, I put it there because the Cowboys weren't built via free agency.
It is rather convenient because Free Agency did, in fact, start in '93.... with a bang... when Reggie White signed with Green Bay. But you chose, instead, to use the arbitrary year of 1996 as the start of the "Free Agency Era," because Reggie White could not deliver a Super Bowl Trophy in his first three years as a Packer(?) Also completely ignoring the fact that in '95, the Cowboys also signed a prominent Free Agent by the name of Deion Sanders, who played a similar role for the Cowboys as White did with the Packers. But the Cowboys are not a "FA era team" because they drafted their franchise QB and the Packers traded for theirs(?) If anything, the 95 Cowboys are a better example of a "FA era team," because they paid top dollar to steal a specific playmaker from a rival team, and the won the Super Bowl in the same year.
Pickett was highly rated at his position.But who cares?Pickett and Woodson were huge pieces of this defense. And Peprah also played a big role this season filling in.
You say this like it is a bad thing. Maybe the lesson here is that high priced free agents are a mirage and Thompson avoids them. His pickup of Tramon Williams was pretty solid no? Charles Woodson was a sniper move by Thompson that changed the course of the franchise. And just in case you missed the game yesterday, this guy was a pretty nice free agency pickup.
He has done a great job with undrafted free agents.Tramon, Shields, Matshay, Zombo...You say this like it is a bad thing. Maybe the lesson here is that high priced free agents are a mirage and Thompson avoids them. His pickup of Tramon Williams was pretty solid no? Charles Woodson was a sniper move by Thompson that changed the course of the franchise. And just in case you missed the game yesterday, this guy was a pretty nice free agency pickup.
But didn't you hear? He doesn't even look at free agents. He actually hates them according to his detractors.He has done a great job with undrafted free agents.Tramon, Shields, Matshay, Zombo...You say this like it is a bad thing. Maybe the lesson here is that high priced free agents are a mirage and Thompson avoids them. His pickup of Tramon Williams was pretty solid no? Charles Woodson was a sniper move by Thompson that changed the course of the franchise. And just in case you missed the game yesterday, this guy was a pretty nice free agency pickup.
Your posts continually get worse. Thompson's detractors don't say he hates free agents. First, the ones that sho listed were undrafted free agents. No one has ever said he hates signing undrafted free agents. He has done a great job in that area. It is well known that Thompson prefers to build his team through the draft and he is very cautious how he goes about signing high profile free agents. He has hit some home runs with his approach and it has worked. Has he missed a few, sure he has, but overall what he does works.But didn't you hear? He doesn't even look at free agents. He actually hates them according to his detractors.He has done a great job with undrafted free agents.Tramon, Shields, Matshay, Zombo...You say this like it is a bad thing. Maybe the lesson here is that high priced free agents are a mirage and Thompson avoids them. His pickup of Tramon Williams was pretty solid no? Charles Woodson was a sniper move by Thompson that changed the course of the franchise. And just in case you missed the game yesterday, this guy was a pretty nice free agency pickup.
He has done a great job with undrafted free agents.Tramon, Shields, Matshay, Zombo...You say this like it is a bad thing. Maybe the lesson here is that high priced free agents are a mirage and Thompson avoids them. His pickup of Tramon Williams was pretty solid no? Charles Woodson was a sniper move by Thompson that changed the course of the franchise. And just in case you missed the game yesterday, this guy was a pretty nice free agency pickup.
No they havent, as a matter of fact I think they missed the playoffs the year after their most recent Superbowl victories. as recently as just last yearNagle2998 said:
Who did he miss on?Your posts continually get worse. Thompson's detractors don't say he hates free agents. First, the ones that sho listed were undrafted free agents. No one has ever said he hates signing undrafted free agents. He has done a great job in that area. It is well known that Thompson prefers to build his team through the draft and he is very cautious how he goes about signing high profile free agents. He has hit some home runs with his approach and it has worked. Has he missed a few, sure he has, but overall what he does works.But didn't you hear? He doesn't even look at free agents. He actually hates them according to his detractors.He has done a great job with undrafted free agents.Tramon, Shields, Matshay, Zombo...You say this like it is a bad thing. Maybe the lesson here is that high priced free agents are a mirage and Thompson avoids them. His pickup of Tramon Williams was pretty solid no? Charles Woodson was a sniper move by Thompson that changed the course of the franchise. And just in case you missed the game yesterday, this guy was a pretty nice free agency pickup.
If you don't know then you don't follow the Packers. It's ok to say TT has missed on a few draft picks and free agents. It happens to the best of them and it isn't knocking TT at all. He has proven that he has done a great job.
And let's not forget that Deion Sanders was a FA who helped the 49ers win in 1994. The title of this poll should probably be "Best NFC team since the AFC started dominating the super bowl".
It doesn't make sense to start the free agency the year free agency was implemented because it would take a few years for the new system to strip the best teams of all their talent. There's a transition period. The Cowboys and 49ers were built the old way, so its better to start in 1996 imo.
Except that a free agent signing was an integral part of the superbowl champs in 1994 and 1995 (Sanders). It could be argued that neither SF or Dallas wouldhave won their championships in 1994 and 1995 had it not been for the signing of Deion Sanders.It just seems convenient that you chose an arbritrary year which just so happens to most support your argument.It doesn't make sense to start the free agency the year free agency was implemented because it would take a few years for the new system to strip the best teams of all their talent. There's a transition period. The Cowboys and 49ers were built the old way, so its better to start in 1996 imo.
Parity?
Yeah...Android/swype got me on that one.
This is the correct answer. Favre did great things for us, and now it's Rogers turntimschochet said:
