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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
See, this is whole line of reasoning dovetails with the 'draft a QB, any QB, and if he sucks draft another' line of thinking that simply drives me crazy.
I can understand pining for great QB play in light of the HORRIBLE QB play we've endured but just as 'not as bad =! good' is apt, so too is 'the only alternative to horrible is spectacular' inapt.
We don't need a QB who throws 50x a game for 400+ yards every time out. We need one who doesn't make mistakes and makes clutch plays when needed. As much as the league has favored the passing game, and franchise QBs dominate the SB champ ranks, they're still not pass, pass, pass and ignore the rest of the team rosters. All the franchise QBs have gone through their game manager eras. Those like Eli, Ben, even going back to Elway have traits of stinking for 3/4 then turning it on in the crunch. Others like Aikman game managed throughout. All won with their defenses playing at their peak.
This is a knock on singlemindedness more than anything else.
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Green Bay hasn't had a 100-yard rusher in 43 games. New England has averaged almost 40 passes per game over the last few years. So has New Orleans.
This isn't 1995 and building a team like they built around Aikman isn't possible.
The game absolutely IS pass, pass, pass. And on the flip side, it's sack, sack, sack.
You need a QB and pass rushers. Hit on both at the same time and you're a Super Bowl champion.