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(12-26-2019, 02:07 AM)jason Wrote: Yes but guys that play QB on a team that have a really good defense, Mark Ingram, sure handed TEs, Ozzie Newsome, a very good coaching staff, a good line with an All Pro in front of them, and a future star at WR tend to be successful... Again; Lamar Jackson is playing outta his mind this year, but he's not dragging a group of bums to glory. Carson Palmer, Andy Dalton, Akili Smith, and David Klingler never had all of the benefits Lamar Jackson has this year.

The best QBs in the league right now were all drafted into pretty good situations. They play for teams with a recent history of success, and weren't drafted first overall, or the first QB off the board. That's not to say a Joe Burrow couldn't be a top 3 QB in the league. I'm saying he has a better chance of being that if he's drafted into a good situation. The cupboard isn't completely bare here, but it's not fully stocked either.

Carson Palmer had a good-great OL (for a while), one of the best WR duos in the league with Chad and TJ, a really good RB with Rudi Johnson, a pair of stud CB’s in JJ and Leon Hall...

Andy Dalton had a top 5 WR in AJ, some damn good # 2’s in Jones and Boyd, a Prow Bowl TE in Eifert, one of the best LT’s of the era, Mixon, Geno, big LoS, Burfict, Reggie Nelson, some pretty good coordinators that all got head coaching jobs because of what they did here (Zimmer, Jay, Hue)

You can...I won’t say “cherry-pick” but you really can point to plenty of good players and coaches on almost any team that’s even halfway decent. And make sound pretty good.

Two things we’ve never really had during the Mike Brown era? Elite QB and a great HC. I’d say Palmer was looking pretty close in 05, but we all know how that turned out.

But anyway, Jackson is going to win MVP, and with NE looking entirely beatable, I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see Baltimore go all the way. Pretty crazy to think people were mocking that draft pick, and talking about how the Chargers “figured out how to stop him” just last year in the playoffs. Not saying we’d be playoff bound if we had Jackson, but I guarantee we would have a lot more than 1 win.