In every free agency cycle, there are those transactions that move the needle in a big-story sense, and there are those transactions that make the most difference in a purely football sense.
As we all know over time, those two kinds of deals don’t always match. For every big-ticket free-agent signing that the teams and (possibly fired) executives pull off to their eternal regret, there are more of the kind that make bad teams good, good teams great, and great teams of championship caliber.
These are the signings of underrated players constructed by those franchises that do things the right way, by paying just as much attention to the bottom third
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