BrooksBurner

So what? It doesn't change the Super Bowl results. It's a different league today. It's a passing dominant league and QB values are higher than ever. As a result, any QB with even a small chance of being good is generally going to get picked higher than ever before. That's just how it is. All of these examples that get thrown out there of "Brady was a 6th", "Russel Wilson was a 3rd", doesn't matter. It's a new era propped up by a clear favoritism on how important that QB has become to be recognized, especially as the game has changed.

Why are we picking between two scenarios that are so unlikely to win a Super Bowl? I think it's generally harder to find a top QB, so I don't blame teams for making it a higher priority in the new NFL that has become a high octane passing league. The end goal is Super Bowl. You need a top QB to have a reasonable chance at one. It's kind of that simple IMO, though if you own a team and care more about making the playoffs for revenue, just to get casually bounced in the first round or two year over year, that's fine. Different objective.

I agree that your logic is sound and it sounds good, but not having a top QB doesn’t work out that often regardless of how good the rest of the team is. Sounds good on paper, but works poorly in practice. Like socialism.

3x Mahomes 4x Brady 1x Stafford 1x Peyton Manning 1x Foles By my estimation, that’s 1 out of 10 with a below top 5-10 QB in the league. The 10 years before that: 2x Ben Roethlisberger 2x Eli Manning 1x Russel Wilson 1x Flacco 1x Aaron Rodgers 1x Drew Brees 1x Tom Brady 1x Peyton Manning Only argument that can be made is Flacco was outside the top 10. I’m not even going to look to see if it’s true, and just give it to you. Again 1 out of 10. The odds in the last 20 years of winning a SB without a top 10 QB are 10%…at best. All of a sudden the bust rate on QBs in the draft doesn’t hit as hard.

The playoffs haven’t even started for the Rangers yet. These are warm up games.

What are the odds of winning Super Bowl without a top 10 QB in the league? I think they know the bust odds on drafting QBs, but when SB probabilities are generally dictated by needing a high end QB, it gets GMs to roll the dice at draft time. With that said, I don’t know what the Falcons are doing. Completely unnecessary reach. They just signed Cousins to big money and Penix is already 24 years old. He’s going to sit until his late 20s having not played an NFL game? Just strange. If it were a young 21 year old QB or something that’d be fine.

I'd have been happy with Odunze too for the Giants. I agree I think he's more mature, and also more of a prototypical X receiver. I think Nabers is significantly more electric though. Quicker, more explosive, by a large margin.

Nabers great pick for the GeeeeeeeeeeeeeMEN

Florida is a buzz saw. Nobody is going to stop them.

This team is so exciting and fun to watch. Also, they have pretty good taste in other sports

Florida just caved in TB in OT from the puck drop. Absolute clinic of chances and they end it.

Cuylle’s a low key shit stirrer and I like it

Infuriating

Capitals are just a really shitty fucking team. Still can't believe they made the playoffs out of all the teams that were in the running

That's not even a penalty let alone a major