You make your own luck. Even since we got lucky on Brees shoulder in 2006 we are consummate gamblers willing to write off injury histories in any player we draft, sign, or extend as bad luck. And then when our many high injury risk players go down they force shifts and gaps in protection that expose our healthier players to additional injury risk.

And in 2021 it was not just injuries that were at fault. We knew that Michael Thomas was our only proven starting WR by a country mile and that no other receiver had the experience to start at WR or was coming out of the draft with enough potential to start. We had a bunch of undrafted role player types and one mid round draft bust who had never been consistent. And we knew that Michael Thomas was not returning phone calls and was coming off a big injury and questioning surgery. We had to let Emmanuel Sanders and could not replace him, not being Mickey Loomis' iphone broke during free agency, but because of what I am saying, that the salary cap was mismanaged and we didn't have the ability to make a move because of it. WR was the weakest part of our team and it was because of the salary cap and our strategy of throwing away mid-round draft picks with claims that we have so much depth we cant use them. And have we addressed experience at WR this free agency? No way Jose. Maybe we will draft one, though we were willing to throw away those draft picks for a sexual predator with a history of tearing both ACLs. But even if we draft a WR, clearly clearly we could use an experienced veteran WR who we know will start the year healthy, and we are no signing one, because the salary cap matters.