Lions make Goff 2nd highest paid QB in football.

I'm thinking Poles has acquired the talent for the team to be very very good this year.  Poles does need 2025 though to top off the talent.  Corey Wooten was talking about the team making a serious Super Bowl run in 2 or 3 years.  I took that as meaning 2025 or 2026.  I'm thinking along those same lines now.  Regarding the defense, I'm expecting Poles to add an elite D player next draft and probably add at least one other great player too (he has 3 picks in the top 2 rounds).  

Regarding signing a D guy this year, I'm thinking Poles could very well add one more guy.  That's fine.  But my hope is that as the team moves forward now (the team is a LOT better than a couple of years ago talent wise now) that Poles hits the draft as hard as he can for a steady incoming flow of fresh/affordable talent.  As far as signing veterans, my hope is that he first focuses on our own (keeping guys like Caleb Williams and Rome Odunze).  That won't be easy.  Yesterday I posted some rough numbers that would forecast 1/3 of our entire cap money would go to just those 2 guys.  Think about that.  We have other studs on this team, young ascending guys, who will demand top dollar contracts (or near top dollar) too.  We need to be able to sign the best-of-the-best of our own veterans before we worry about overpaying some other team's player that they don't want to sign anymore.  But of course we will need to sign some other vets to fill out the roster... buying talent at full-retail prices.  

Maybe I am naive (and I probably am here) but if Poles, Cunningham and these scouts are good at what they do, then they should be able to bring in talent better than some of these FA guys we covet here who were 3rd round picks or later round picks and are flawed enough now (or old enough now) that their team no longer wants to sign them.  We can and should be able to get those kind of guys who are on rookie contracts with a LOT of tread on the tires.  JMO.