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@PaulKuharskyNFL is it better to try and get the best players and strike out or not do anything at all??

— Dan Lowe (@DanLowe0) February 11, 2015

Paul Kuharsky: Oh I think it's better to take a swing.

They needed a guard and Andy Levitre was pretty much the consensus for best guard and they went and got him. He's not lived up to his contract, and that makes for a disaster. But I think it's still better to have tried.

The deal is, a team doesn't want to be in position where it HAS to go get the best free agent at a spot. It's a far better formula when you have a better hit rate with draft picks and free agents about to enter their peak (see Chris Hope or David Thornton) than when roster deficiencies create a feeling that you have to make a move.

I'd rather sit back. Once in a while you see a great big-time guy you love, chase and land rather than head toward free agency desperate to catch X and Y.

(The Packers aren't free-agent players at all. But look what they did with Julius Peppers.)

Avoid desperation.

Say you're a consistently terrible wide receiver team and your fan base constantly bemoans your inability to grow a wide receiver. When you go out and sign Yancey Thigpen when he's the best available or David Givens when he appears a high-quality addition and they don't pan out, should you be destroyed for it?

Better to have tried than to presume Isaac Byrd or Courtney Roby or Brandon Jones will suffice. Especially now that a big free-agent contract doesn't handcuff you for a long time if it doesn't pan out.

Still, be it a high draft pick or a costly FA, you have to bat better than the Titans have been hitting. A big part of that is not having so many pressing needs all the time.