In the months and weeks leading up to the NFL draft, fans and pundits alike obsess seemingly endlessly over their team’s weaknesses. They go to great lengths to devise costly free agency schemes and spend countless hours constructing elaborate mock draft fantasies about how to address those weaknesses. We collectively obsess over those weaknesses, but we don’t talk about our team’s strengths a lot.
In a closed system like the NFL, and with finite resources at your disposal (cap space or draft resources), should you invest those resources into fixing your weaknesses or building your strengths?