That’s what happens when your QB takes up a quarter of your salary cap and his receivers keep dropping balls.
That’s what happens when your QB takes up a quarter of your salary cap and his receivers keep dropping balls.
I mostly agree with you but in the last 10 years or so we saw Foles, Peyton Manning (old), Wilson, Flacco, and Eli Manning. The great quarterbacks definitely make life easier, but you can invest heavily in the rest of your team and still win the big one.
To expand a little: Manning is my all time favorite but he did nothing for that team in the second half of the season. Wilson has been a bust on a different team. Flacco is Mr. Mediocre. Eli is top 15? You may disagree with some of my opinions which is totally fine - but mediocrity can win. I’d probably prefer that we trade down again and stack our team with rookie mega talent and then when we inevitably finish poorly again next year if Fields truly is the problem, we can draft a QB then.
I’ll take the third door. I think we should continue to build in the trenches. Linemen, especially offensive linemen, have an incredible ROI and while you are building that out you won’t have to pay any flashy talent and will still finish poorly to get draft picks.