@Herschel posted:Always ascending, never peaking isn’t exactly the recipe for winning it all. Always ascending is code for “we drafted slightly less shitty players to replace our previous shitty draft picks who weren’t worth a second contract.”
Even given the difference in the sports given the salary cap in baseball, the Packers are a lot like the Brewers. Both have put a premium on being competitive every year without ever selling out to win in a single year.
The Packers drafted their future QB (Love) using a 1st and a 4th round pick, a RB to replace their RBs that might leave the next year (Dillon - Jones/Williams), and used their 3rd rounder on a bust (DeGuara) in 2020 when they were one win away from the Super Bowl. They are better now with Love than they would have been with a castoff journeyman (Fields, Russell Wilson, Mariota, Winston) for 2 years, but Tee Higgins or Michael Pittman (who would have probably been their choices and they stayed put at 30th overall might have put them over the top in 2020 or 2021.
The incentives for Gute and MLF are the same for most other coaches. A team that will probably win between 7 and 11 games every year gives you job security. A team that may win 13 or 14 for 1-2 years and then bottoms out with 4-6 wins for 2-3 years after that generally gets you fired in Year 5.