*my opinion* Monte McNair and staff's current thinking at trade deadline was as follows:
Monte is placing a value on his players and other teams players for that matter, of which he utilizes many criterion- salary, term, impact, need, cap etc.. As to the trade deadline, he is valuing his offerings against other teams offerings -based on his valuations. He then tries to improve the team incrementally. If he doesn't get additional value, in his view, he doesn't make a deal.
Because I could not think of another name, we simply could refer to this strategy as "The Farhan."
Let me weigh, if I may share his thinking on how weighed this strategy against the other more obvious, historically more successful, but slow, expensive and more painful strategy. As a result, this strategy, or a GM that advocates for this strategy, is never allowed to begin, and if started, preempted before maturation, and/or otherwise killed by ownership.
As a result, we have the McNair and staff current "Hybrid approach. " And this is how he got the job. But now you know. *my opinion*