You rotate that many quarterbacks and all that would have happpened is a “bust” at drafting a quarterback. Matt Jones would have looked like David Carr or Pickles.
too much is put on the right player but it’s the right coach and system plugging players in and adjusting them to what they do.
Rhule was a turd.
What’s whack is the modern day impatience that says someone sucks if they don’t throw 5 touchdowns, zero picks and run 100 yards a game out of the gate.
the second is there is so much success and failure riding on who drafts who. There are tons of “busts” that would have been at least serviceable if drafted by betters. There’s also good and greats that would have been busts or journeymen if they were drafted different.
Trevor Lawrence may or may not be “generational talent” but it’s hard to tell by who drafted him
Quite a lot of people don’t pay attention to what happens to win ratios and other players stats around players.
some play and have great stats but the team loses and other players play like poo.
some play without great stats but others play better better around them and the team wins more.
Then once in 1000 players you get both. A true badass that makes everyone else around them a badass. Even the scrubs look like they are invincible(it’s how a player looks great on one team, gets a trade then stinks elsewhere)
You can’t compare “skill sets” between true X factor players and those who don’t have it.
CMac is an exceptional player but the team doesn’t all of a sudden play much better with him than without him.
Steve Smith probably willed the team to 3-4 more wins a year than they were worth. He had that much x-factor