07-29-2018, 12:20 AM
(07-28-2018, 08:36 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I hear ya, it's just that the Eagles won the SB with a 2nd year QB we didn't know about, a backup QB who was a one year wonder and almost out of the league, and a HC who had only been a HC for a year prior. That's a whole lot of "Gee, we just don't have enough info on these guys to make a decision" at two key positions in the organization. The Rams made a significant splash with a similar approach, as well. Now you have other teams looking to follow the leader and mimic that successful template.
Football is like the stock market. Anyone can look at a booming brand and say "Gee, that looks like a good investment" but the key to really cashing in is to be able to see what a brand is doing BEFORE it hits it big and invest on the calculated risk that you are getting in on the ground floor before it goes up up and away.
So we also have Marvin Lewis saying things like "Who saw the Eagles winning the SB?" which is a hoot coming from an organization that has kept him employed for a generation or so. The Eagles saw the Eagles winning the SB, Marvin. They saw Carson Wentz when the Browns didn't, they saw Doug Pederson as a HC from the Reid tree, they saw Nick Foles as a legit QB when the Rams and Chiefs were sure he was done, and so on.
Again, if we are too dead-set on putting the unknowns at the bottom of the list we may as well be ranking the 2015 QBs instead of the 2018 ones. Come on, we aren't betting our lives on these guys...take a fake risk!
Foles is just more proof that you shouldn't list a guy around top 10 based on a 5-6 games. Even after that SB run, no one is going to say Foles is a top QB...because we've seen enough to know better. Experts were already "fooled once" on Foles back in 2013, so they learned their lesson on him...but they still get caught up in hyping the latest flavors of the month.
I guess I can see why, honestly. It's good for business. Fans like hearing about new talent. Jimmy Garapolololol is/was a great story. His first TD pass as a niner was scarily similar to Joe Montana to Dwight Clark. I guess I'm not so much bashing writers for doing what they do. I'm just saying I don't get caught up in hype immediately.
(07-28-2018, 03:12 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Rookies go unranked because there's a difference between limited play and no play. For instance Mahomes is the QB with the least experience on the list and he's listed as 31st. Is he the 31st best QB in the league; most likely not, but they have NOTHING to go one. As to the others they have something to go on.
It's not a conspiracy; it's simply where 50 experts ranked them.
They have "something" to go on, but 7 games isn't enough IMO. Not enough to justify a 13th ranking over some very good and very proven QB's. There's really nothing to debate here, as this is just my opinion. Obviously you think 7 games is enough proof. It's all subjective.
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