Lynch never turned into the badass OBD made him out to be. As a result we gave him away for a song. Same story with Jason Peters.
That said, the decade of fail was not all bad. I maintain that our defenses were better then than they are now. Jabari Greer, Kyle Williams, Aaron Schobel, Jerry Hughes, Stefon Gilmore and Lorenzo Alexander were great football players. Looking back it seems like we were a farm team for the big markets