Meh. I and others questioned the strategy two offseasons ago and were scoffed at, told that NEXT year (this past offseason) we'd be going after top FAs and would spend all the cap money we kept our powder dry to save. Strangely enough, when that didn't happen, a lot of those same voices pulled an ostrich job on what they'd said the year before and claimed, no no, it was actually supposed to be the NEXT next year!
I'll take you at your word that yours wasn't one of those voices, but the hypocrisy was--and is--rife on this board.