Three free-agent acquisitions were key to the Packers’ Super Bowl win in the ’90s: Reggie, Sean Jones and Desmond Howard. If Vic were writing at the time of those acquisitions, what do you think he would have written about them? Has the evolution of the salary cap from then to now changed your view on free agents, even expensive ones like Reggie?
He would’ve written the Packers’ immediate grasp of the impact of free agency, coupled with the Eagles’ lack of understanding of the initial process, helped the Packers win a Super Bowl. Let’s not pretend the Packers’ other free-agent additions were the difference-makers.