Consider This - S.B. winners

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(02-13-2020, 11:28 AM)Nately120 Wrote: If Burrow goes to a franchise that has its act together I'm almost certain he'd make us look like even bigger morons than we already do.  Doesn't mean he'd drag MB to the SB, but you know what I mean.



Well, when I look at this list (and in all fairness, Aikman won 3 SBs and 2 were before this supplied list started) I see that getting the 1st QB off the board matters less than the competency of the organization as a whole.  Basically, a good NFL franchise is more likely to win the SB with the 2nd or later QB in a given draft class than a lousy organization is to win with the cream of the crop.

Only twice in the past 25 years has a team won a SB by drafting the first QB taken off the board.  This should, one would think, send a message to Mike Brown that his third time getting the top QB in the draft to build around should be handled in a different way, but alas I doubt he will get the message or even care if he does.  

So there you have it.  Hey Mike Brown, you have the chance to get the best QB in a long time and history has shown that you're much more likely to win if you run the franchise in the right way so why not hedge your bets and combine Burrow with a winning organizational approach?  Why not, indeed.

I just don't want to see Burrow lumped in with all the other 1st QBs taken who apparently didn't know how to win once they were magically taken by the lousy teams drafting 1st overall.  Funny how the 2nd and later QBs off the board don't become losers once they get drafted, you think someone would look for the real underlying issue here, eh?

This got me looking into other teams roster and you have a great point.

16 of the current 18 playoff contenders either have:

1. A non-1st round QB

2. A 1st round QB they drafted by trading up from the late 1st round to grab when they were already a playoff team
3. A former 1st round QB they acquired through trade or free agency

90% of the current contenders fit into one of those 3 categories. Only two teams (CHI, BUF) drafted a QB in the early 1st when they weren’t playoff teams the prior year trading up.
Meanwhile 9 of the current 14 non-contenders have 1st rounders, and way too many of those fit the mold of "plugging THE FUTURE in at QB on an otherwise terrible roster" and are not having success with it. The Giants, Jets, Cardinals, Bucs, Browns, and Redskins have all done this lately and it isn’t working.
So if you could choose how to model your team, would choose to do it like 90% of the current playoff contenders did it, or how the Giants/Jets/Cards/Skins are doing?