‘”That’s the challenge every year. The less continuity you have, the bigger the challenge, right? So it’s a challenge to bring guys together that are coming off of different teams in particular with how heavy we went free agency,” McDermott said. “That’s some of the risk of free agency, inherently. That said, we needed to improve our football team from a roster standpoint. So that’s also why you do the research that Brandon and his staff did, Joe Schoen, and so on and so forth, to try and close the gap as much as possible when it comes to knowing the players in free agency. It’s a slippery slope, the process of free agency, but again, we tried to go with our critical factors of what we feel like to close that gap as much as possible.”’