Quote:Trent Dilfer won a Super Bowl.  Brad Johnson won a Super Bowl.  Eli Manning, who is only maybe a top 15 QB, has won two of them.  Everyone thought Joe Flacco was a stiff until he won one.  And now after last season, everyone thinks he is a stiff again.  I'd much rather have a "mediocre" QB who gets you into the playoffs every year, or into the playoff chase every year, then constantly recycling lousy QBs over and over again in the hopes that one day you'll get lucky. 

 

Look at the top 15 QBs in the league last year in terms of QB rating and tell me how many of them are playing for the team that drafted them in the top 10 of the first round?  The list is short.  There are many ways to find a QB.  There are many ways to find a QB good enough to make you a consistent playoff contender.   

 

Sure there are lots of ways, but you still have to do it.

 

Also it's been more than a decade since Brad Johnson won that Superbowl. I think we can fairly label it a dramatically unusual outlier in an NFL which is continually tilting the field in favor of elite QBs.

 

Also let's not put Dalton on Flacco's level. You can say that Flacco won because he had a great team around him, but he still won. He has never been a 1 and done QB in the playoffs in his career, and that's all Dalton has ever done. It's not like the Bengals don't have a very very strong roster of players around him.

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