It didn’t have to be either/or. There is/was money for both. It’s hard for me to say exactly what I would have done because I don’t know what would or wouldn’t have been accepted, but I would have gone 25M/AAV for Godwin, which is more than he got to stay in Tampa. Kupp was also a reasonable target for what he got. Christian Kirk would have been a reasonable trade target. I would not have traded for DK and given him what he got.
Yes, there have been losses by division rivals of course, like Keenan Allen for example but they’ve been more than offset by their gains, particularly in Minnesota. Detroit is already gaining a healthy Hutch back which is the biggest offseason acquisition of any division team.
Stokes and Myers are the first two guys who come to mind as free agents who most definitely didn’t get overpaid. Myers got what, a year at less than $4M? Very surprisingly underwhelming market for him. We all know darn well that if we had given Myers 3/30 a week ago, 75% of Packer fans would have said, “man, way to go Gute!”