(10-02-2024, 07:38 PM)cland Wrote:

(10-02-2024, 05:50 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: No there isn't 

That's total garbage 

You don't build around [BLEEP] superstars - LOL -  ridiculous

You build around foundational pieces. Above average players that can anchor positional groups. Hopefully starting in the damn trenches - which is where this team [BLEEP] the proverbial bed. 
It's amazing if you can have at least one superstar on each side of the ball but that isn't how you build a [BLEEP] team. The timing of finding those guys is too finite and undetermined.

Pederson did what you described in the last paragraph here for two years. This year he tried to go more vertical with play action ramped up mare than double last year's rate  + lots of drops from under center and it has bitten him in the [BLEEP] more than it has paid off thus far.

Ahh you're right, the Chiefs keep going to the Superbowl because Mahomes and Kelce are both "above average players."

Outliers make horrible examples when you are trying to defend a narrative that contains failed logic. 

If landing a generational QB that many are already calling the greatest ever were such a "great way to build a team" everyone would be doing it. But it's damn near impossible.

That's why the Jaguars could land the greatest GM on the planet and the greatest coach to work under him or with him this offseason, and the odds of them finding 2 superstars on par with Mahomes and Kelce would still be damn near those of me winning the lottery this week. Especially with the covid kids coming out in the draft next year. 

You want to adopt a strategy of finding two guys like that to begin your team building, you better buckle up for a long [BLEEP] ride, pal. It might take you 20+ years to hit on your cornerstones and get your build off the ground.

Everyone tries every year to draft or acquire players like that. Most of them fail way more often than they succeed. Which is why teams go after building block players with much of their capital and swing for the fences in measured doses trying to hit on their potential superstars.

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