Originally Posted by
Cugel
I'd agree, except that we are now witnessing Brady about to win another damn SB. So, don't tell us that it doesn't take an elite QB when the preceding SBs will have been won by Brady, Brady, Manning, Brady, Russell Wilson, Joe Flacco (exception), Eli Manning, Aaron Rogers, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisbeger (2).
Even Flacco had a career year the year they won. It's just damn hard to win SBs without an elite QB. Yes, Denver won with defense in 2015, but they still had Manning for his leadership. Besides that kind of thing normally only happens once every 10 years - and never to the same team twice.
Brady is not an argument for the necessity of having an elite QB to win the SB. He is simply what
many consider as the greatest QB to play the game. Yes, he was necessary for the Patriots since
they don't have the best team without him. But, again, that's Brady.
IMO, Wilson, Flacco, and even Roethlisberger are very good QBs who are not on the elite level.
Of the present QBs, that club is limited to Brady, Brees, and Rodgers. And Brees has a defense,
and it was questionable whether Green Bay was a playoff team, even with a healthy Rodgers.
And where are Wilson and Flacco now, during this playoff time? And now Roethlisberger will watch
the rest of the postseason from his couch, having lost to Blake Bortles & Co. (and their defense).
The fact is, if Denver drafts a QB with their 1st, they will be rolling the dice. The examples of
first-round busts I provided are just two of many. Elway knew the prescription for a Super Bowl
in 2015 because all he had for QBs were Osweiler and an aged, broken down Manning. The
defense took over and rolled through the playoffs and the SB. Building such a team is more likely
than drafting an elite QB, IMO.
Last edited by topscribe; 01-14-2018 at 04:54 PM.
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