Even with the NFL's expanded playoff field, not every team can realistically consider itself a title contender. Only a handful of teams are of that caliber, and more than half of the league will still miss the playoffs.
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Former Green Bay Packers general manager Ron Wolf built a Hall of Fame career while believing in a simple premise at the game s most important position: A team should continually invest in quarterbacks.
Mark Brunell, Matt Hasselbeck, Aaron Brooks, Ty Detmer, Kurt Warner and Aaron Rodgers could be found behind Brett Favre at different stages during the quarterback s ironman streak. In fact, Wolf chose seven signal-callers between 1992 and 2000, with Favre in tow.
So, the idea of investing in quarterbacks is in the organization s DNA. How the team goes about its business is another matter altogether.
The Jay Barkers and Kyle Wachholtzs of the world weren t a threat to Favre. Wolf invested middle- or late-round picks in developmental options the team could work with and potentially trade if they showed promise which they did on a handful of occasions.