Turf Show Times · Feb 24, 2021
What did the last 5 free agent classes look like and what went wrong?
Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty ImagesHere’s a narrative you may hear a lot of as free agency approaches: “The Bucs signed the best free agent of 2020 and that’s how you win a Super Bowl.”
This one, you’ll hear less: “In 2019, the Jets signed two of the top 10 free agents.”
In fact, the Jets aren’t the only New York team of recent memory to find themselves in a pit of despair less than two years after “winning” free agent. The Giants signed three of the top-10 free agents in 2016 and while that earned them a trip to a wild card loss that season, they’ve averaged 4.5 wins per season in the four years since.
