Maybe QB isn't our biggest problem?

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(10-12-2019, 12:24 AM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I'd consider a franchise QB a Top 10 QB that makes a team much better just by his presence. But, yeah projecting that is the trick.

Dalton, if you ranked QB's was somewhere in the mid-teens at best. At worst he's maybe low 20's.

Watson and Mahommes definitely are franchise. Brady. Probably Wilson and Prescott. Aaron Rodgers. Roethlisberger. Brees.

This is something I just disagree with.

Dalton was actually a top 10 QB in '15 when he had the best OLine of his career. Whitworth, Boling, Bodine, Zeitler, Smith.  The weakest link was Bodine, but even he wasn't really that bad.

The top 10 thing is also a bit silly wouldn't you say?  I'll explain a bit here.  There are only 32 teams and when ranking the QBs we rank each team's starting QB.  We don't really look at the back ups and consider them in the rankings.  So the focus is on the starters.  So when ranking the best QBs, we usually look at the team's win/loss record, after all the QB is given an unfair amount of credit and blame for this record.

Then we look at stats, which can be very misleading since the game plan and scheme and coaching philosophy is different from team to team. That isn't even counting who the targets the QB has to throw to are.  For instance their rookie year, Cam and Dalton were compared.  Cam had the stats, but Dalton had the wins.  Cam had an ageing Steve Smith to throw to while Dalton had a rookie AJ Green.  Some argued that Cam had the edge as Smith was a veteran player who wasn't quite done yet, but others argued Green was a phenom and if Cam had Green he would have been better and Dalton would have been worse with Smith.  Whose the better QB? (this is rhetorical).

So if a team is winless and the QBs stats aren't fantasy stats (which for the record Dalton is at 7 in total yards without Green).  Then the media will give their "top 10" rankings at QB.  Usually Dalton falls outside of the top 10 because face it, the Bengals from 16-to present haven't had the successes to put Dalton in the top 10.

Finally, we all have our own top 10.