The old front office never quite lost the capability to surprise us. Thomas Dimitroff would reach into his bag of tricks and rummage around for a guard pick in the top 15, pull off at least a slightly unexpected trade up, or sign a free agent I simply would not have thought the team would have prioritized. In between those curveballs, though, we had a pretty good feel for the way the team would attack its needs with veteran running backs, rotational defensive linemen, and stopgap guard signings and trades.
The arrival of a new front office means a lot of things, many of them hopefully positive, but it also means uncertainty.