What do we need personnel wise to be great?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by irish

But thats the problem, the skins will never get a full compliment of picks because the coach and owner love to give them away like Xmas gifts. So they are constantly stuck plugging holes instead of building a strong foundation that will result in continued success. It this "plug the holes" philosophy that has created a franchise that has not sniffed the playoffs in 5 years. The skins were not dealt their hand, they created it all by themselves and now they are having to live with the consequences.

Yeah you're right. I'm with you on this. But I think you're arguing in favor of a general philosophy instead of what should be done this year. We do need to stop trading away picks, but that doesn't help us for 2006. We don't have picks for 2006, so if we're going to stick to the topic of the thread, we've got to get free agents to fill personnel needs this year. And we have to avoid trading our 2007 draft picks in the process.