The second draft we have in my list is the one that followed our most recent Super Bowl win. It also had the ignominy of happening during the still-all-to-recent NFL lockout of that offseason. We sure got lucky that it didn’t boil over into the season; if it had we wouldn’t have seen that awesome 15-1 regular season they produced. But those are thoughts for another day; let’s get back to the point.
When you just won a Super Bowl, the biggest issues usually wind up being keeping all those players who are set to enter free agency; as soon as they get a ring their ambitions — and subsequently their price tag — rise.