it's at 12.5 on DK and I'm guessing all the others will move up too.
A scrub QB doesn’t GET you to the conference championship game…much less a SB. And for a merely good one to get you there? Then you need a generational defense for a one-off. And that hasn’t happened for quite awhile. We’re talking about building a team and no Purdy isn’t elite…yet. Neither was Brady when the Pats won their first. Belichick took that job after failing in Cleveland because Kosar was pretty much done and he never found a QB to win for him. In Foxboro, he had Drew Bledsoe already established so he was able to take flyers on a guy like Brady. That peace of mind allows you to build and develop a suitable core and when you identify your guy, you maintain and adjust that surrounding cast. Won six SB with Brady. Who ELSE from that “built” team collected all five other rings? And funny you mention Peyton in his last hurrah with a generational defense that carried him to his second ring. A couple of years after setting records, he’s hurt and Brock Osweiler is getting it done week to week, but they NEED a win against the Raiders and their starter isn’t getting it done. In comes Peyton and he does JUST ENOUGH to get them into the playoffs and to the SB. We know what happened AFTER they got there but why did that team that only lost Peyton implode in every year afterwards…never to return? Already BUILT…just needed to get a QB. Easy enough? And I think we glimpsed how vital a QB who could do the job was needed when Purdy went out…total 180 in game result.
Why didn’t Osweiler and subsequent QBs “look great” after Peyton was gone? Everything else was there! And the argument has never been that elite QBs can make SCRUB TEAMS SB contenders…that’s dishonest. But you when you HAVE a contender, you don’t win when it counts if your QB is outclassed by the other team’s guy. You can have the best OL and defense but if your QB doesn’t at least keep pace…it’s all for naught.
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Yes…one offs! And Flacco counts as an established QB. First rounder who made the plays. Had to for them to beat Peyton and Denver and beat a prime Kaepernick and San Francisco. Try to do the Dilfer model nowadays with the litany of elite duelists out there. Why not cite Brian Griese and the undefeated Dolphins if we’re throwing modern science out the window?
