For decades, NFL teams have built their rosters by investing significant capital in players closest to the ball, and in turn, placing a reduced value on players farther away from it. This ideology matched scheme concepts at the time, where executing a bruising offense was valued over the passing game.
Currently, the NFL is very much a passing league, but only recently have we seen franchises making conscious efforts to move away from old strategies in team construction and evolve into a more modern approach.
Earlier in the week, Chris Spielman appeared on local radio station 97.