Return On Investment: Defense

There are four months to the NFL's annual free agency period, 32 teams trying to navigate the process and no single approach for success.

Every year, there are teams that spend heavily on the open market, such as the New York Giants last year, and teams that mostly stay out of it, like San Francisco last year. Some franchises, like Green Bay, are routinely more conservative in free agency; some adopt different strategies from year to year based on circumstance.

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A year ago, the common belief regarding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' approach to free agency was that they would "seek value," which is a way of saying they would be active on the market…