(09-10-2024, 08:16 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(09-10-2024, 06:04 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Because a 3rd year RB just had a good game? Lol.  Purdy has showed me you don't have to draft a QB early to have success there.  He's done it since day 1, it didn't take year 3.

Because good teams can plug in a guy to replace the best player in the League at the position and still get the same great results. If you plugged in the backup for Purdy the results would not be as good and you know this. It also helps a QB like Purdy to go to a team that's already successful as well, the 49rs haven't been anywhere near the dumpster fire the Jags were when Lawrence got here. Purdy would've been out of the League by now if he had come here instead of Lawrence. Purdy and Tom Brady are generational outliers in where they were drafted compared to their success, literally 22 years between the two with no one else like them in between. That's why your ignorance of statistics mars your analysis, you focus on outliers as if they are common when the evidence of history shows they are extremely rare.

To sum, running backs don't make bad teams good and good teams can pretty much use any running back. Good QBs can make bad teams competitive but bad QBs often ruin good teams. That's why QBs are worth the investment and running backs are not. Thus endeth the lesson.

A lot of folks casually gloss over the fact that a lot of Tom Brady's early success was also married to a great defensive unit and great defensive mind being coached by Belichick. Plus some luck with the tuck rule, and, some pretty shady practices of cheating with spy gate. 

But, you go back to the early 2000's and late 2000's. I don't think Belichick ever had a defensive squad lower than rank five or eight at the minimum when they made those Superbowl run's. They also ran Corey Dillion into the dirt one season after he left the Bengals for his chance at a ring. 

At any rate, RB's should be drafted early when your team is built like a brick [BLEEP] house and you have no use for any other upgrade on the roster. This team has not had that luxury for decades, and, hopefully in the near future they figure this part of the equation out.

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