(02-23-2024, 04:37 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(02-23-2024, 04:30 PM)JagsFanSince95 Wrote: Makes you wonder if teams might go full moneyball on the QB position and try to build stud teams around a rookie QB if things ever tighten up cap wise.. Thinking SF with younger Jimmy G/Purdy. Unless you have the next Mahomes, might not be worth to tie up 30%+ of your cap on 1 player and keep trying to find the next big thing at QB with loads of talent everywhere else.

Dilfer (arguably best defense of all time), Foles and Flacco are the only average to below average QBs to win a SB in the last 30 years. So that’s almost one every 10 years.

You basically need an really good to elite QB to win a SB.

There's more than one way to skin a cat in the NFL. But, that is true. Flacco played above average during that play off run though. Similar to how Eli Manning would somehow start having a magic arm with insane luck in his two Superbowl winning runs. 

The way the NFL is geared towards the offense now. An Elite QB is paramount. Mahomes proved that once again with lackluster talent around him and a good defense alongside him. 

Despite Shanahan's many stabs at the SB, despite Lynch overcoming a bad trade deal for Lance and lucking out with Purdy. They ultimately fell short. Nobody cares if you built a good team. It's whether or not you got it done when it was all on the line. 

Guys like Jim Kelly and Marv Levy are an afterthought now because dynasties like New England and those two runs with teams like Elway and Denver in the 1990's and Coughlin in the 2000's with Eli and the Giants look a lot better in the long run.

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