Quote:They weren't going to be successful anyway. Didn't matter who there OC was. Some guys just don't have it. Drafting is basically a Lotto scratch off game.

 

If you're talking about failures like Jamarcus Russell & Vince Young, yeah. But guys like Leftwich, David Carr, Kevin Kolb, Ryan Tannehill... those guys want to win, but they need a  good team around them. That starts with having a good vision & being able to teach the skills needed to make that vision a reality. 

 

QBs get to much credit when the team wins, to much blame when the team loses. The OC needs to be able to find a way to win with his talented QB to give that guy time to develop. Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger... those guys weren't elite when they won their first Super Bowls, but since their teams kept winning, they were allowed to develop into damn fine QBs. 

 

The "talented guys" where it doesn't seem to matter who the OC is... guys like Peyton, Rivers, Stafford... those guys are rare. & just like Stafford doesn't have a lot of success in the league & we've seen Rivers go from one of the best to one of the worst, back to a top 10 QB... OC matters. Look at Matt Ryan... That's a talented dude, but his team just can't put it together right now. But since they had success early, he's allowed to "work through it" if he came into the league & the Falcons play like they have the last couple of years, he'd have been replaced by now. 

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