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Every NFL team enters the offseason with plans.
Those plans may be brilliant, foolish, patient, premature, meticulous or misguided. Ideally, there is one master plan, but sometimes a team has two or three plans, with the owner, general manager and coach paddling the canoe in different directions. Even the best-laid plans are often revised or thrown out the window the moment the Patriots call with a trade offer or the rookie GM discovers just how much it costs to sign a fullback.
But no matter how different each plan may be in the details, all NFL offseason strategies fall into seven basic categories.