Well, the optimistic view is all these guys (Golden, Foster, Gay, Harrison, Heyward-Bey) want to be here and took team-first deals to stay.
The pessimistic view could be all of them are replacement-level players that are mostly over 30 that not many other teams have interest in or feel it's worth investing the time to teach them their systems because of lack of talent.
I like the signings. Nothing wrong with them. Good cogs in the machine.
But we all know it's about some of the young guys on defense stepping up and becoming dominant players together for us to really make the leap into an "elite" team. And it will take more consistency with smarter play and smarter coaching on both sides of the ball.
These signings are great for depth and fielding a "good" team that will maintain us as a 10-win team. They allow us to draft best player available (to a point) and not chase "saviors" like so many other teams seem to do. The continuity in our offensive/defensive systems allows these mediocre talents to play up to that ability unlike so many other teams that might have superior talent but coaching/system changes hold them back in a perpetual learning curve.
It's what we do.
