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Originally Posted by BWillie
I'm a Carl fan because he really built some good teams, but that was his weakness. He didn't believe in drafting a QB.
Key to success especially in the NFL now, draft a new QB every two years until you find, the one. The worst thing you can do is resign a QB that isn't good enough. Just move on. Like Rosen. Teams knew he wasn't good enough. Quit trying. Go for another one and repeat.
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Mariota is the best recent example. Winston will likely be the next test case.
Darnold may/may not be far behind and then Josh Allen after that.
Some quarterbacks spend entire careers being just good enough to get paid and get guys fired.
Though I will toss a half-hearted, tepid defense of Carl his way. Trent Green WAS good enough to win a championship. Carl just let the team atrophy around him. For as much shit as Robinson gets (almost certainly deservedly) - look at that defensive roster and tell me just what kind of chicken salad any DC could've made from that pile of shit.
Hicks, Browning, Sims, Holliday, Maslowski, Barber, Fujita, Warfield, McCleon, Wesley and Woods. Those were your starters and there wasn't any buried talent on the bench either.
Take the single best years of those guys careers and put them all in the 2003 season and that defense would've still been a pile of shit, with Greg Robinson at the controls or Bill Belichick.
Carl finally found a brief window where he had a truly championship caliber QB at the helm...at the same time he let his defense fall apart around him. As bad as last year's defense was, it was still significantly more talented than that lot.