Quote:Who is to say that either Houston or Cincinnati is maxed out though? Aren't they still allowed to draft? Can they not add talent to their roster?

 

I get your point that you don't want to be satisfied with simply getting into the Playoffs, but I feel like it is important to note that even a once in a lifetime QB such as Peyton Manning still has a losing postseason record and went one and done his first three times at a Playoff game.

Houston might...because they got their super lucky suck-w/-a-talented-team like the Colts did to get Luck, but you certainly can't count on that. The Bengals are already up against the salary cap, lost impact players like Johnson, have to give AJ Green a massive contract, and will have to give Dalton a 100 mil Cutler/Romo type deal thus losing even more impact players (you know the ones that actually led them to the playoffs, not Dalton himself), or start all over w/ a rookie QB and pray.

 

If you don't have a tip top franchise guy your playoff/SB window is not that long before you have to overhaul the roster. You're going to lose Mario WIlliams, Demeco Ryans, Chris Myers building blocks...that's just how it is. It can be extended a little if you have the Dalton on a rookie cap type, but once it's time for second QB contracts you better have a Peyton/Brees/Rodgers/etc to carry you annually or you're praying for the Eli/Flacco lightning in a bottle scenario...if you have a Dalton/Schaub/Garrard/Sanchez you're just totally screwed.

 

I could keep going, but this is getting long and I've gone over my personal long term philosophies ad nauseum on these forums about it. I understand some people just want to see any kind of winning around here and that's fine for them, but if you don't win SBs (or at least get to them) no one else cares...and I want the Jags to matter. It's great that we can romanticize about the '96 and '99 seasons, but literally no one outside of Jags fans care...and I want everyone else to be forced to care about us. 

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