250 mil over 5 years is 1.25B
If you spread out a 100M loss over 5 years, it’s like an 8% loss of the cap for that mistake, spread out over that span.
Drafting like Gute has over the last 2 years makes up for any type of 10% loss.
Ideally you’re trying to get to the very very top. To win a championship. You can draft well, but then maybe you don’t have the top tier player under contract to really stabilize the young team. Or you can have ideal vets under contract and no wasted money, but you don’t draft well for a few years and you can’t get over the top.
There are a lot of ways to skin a cat, but really, it’s nice to have every advantage because it’s pretty long odds to finish 1 of 32 and that’s the goal.