(12-30-2019, 09:31 AM)Upper Wrote:

(12-30-2019, 08:25 AM)lastonealive Wrote: I'd rather just have a great oline / D and contend that way. Usually the QB gets the credit anyway so will be called a franchise QB. See Flacco, Alex Smith etc

Rivers is the clear top QB that for some reason or another just hasn't worked out, kind of like Romo. Doesn't mean he hasn't been excellent and we wouldn't have been infinitely better with him. Big Ben literally hasn't had a losing season in his entire career. Luck started his career with three straight 11 win seasons with one of the least talented teams in the league and also never had a losing season.

Have fun rebuilding every few years with your style. Teams that don't have one of those types of QBs do not sustain success. It's too hard to keep an entire team stocked when players get old, hurt, expensive, etc.

Having the QB is huge, but I will say the stats on Luck are a bit misleading. He came into the league at a time when the Jags and titans were swooning, he got four easy stat padding games each season in those games. If it weren't for the chiefs absolutely [BLEEP] the bed against him in the playoffs he wouldn't even have a signature win in his career.

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