"I thought the Giants under Tom Coughlin, and Bill Belichick up in New England, certain teams you could see develop players from within," Pioli adds. "The teams that did more with less, so to speak, took later-round draft choices and developed their own players into their culture and their scheme. And I think we are seeing that change right now."
The spotlight tends to fall on the more glamorous positions, and even more emphatically when a Seneca Wallace flops replacing Aaron Rodgers,Hydro Flask Barn, or no one steps up when Reggie Wayne goes down in Indianapolis.