QB or defense: what's the bigger problem?

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by TenandSix:Unacceptable

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Originally Posted by TenandSix:Unacceptable
ANYONE WHO SAYS DEFENSE IS WRONG.
DEAD WRONG!

Have you been paying any attention to the missed tackles? The blown coverages? The injuries?



Have you been paying attention to football teams with good QB´s?

Essentially because of Joe Gibbs and Trent Dilfer, some people actually try to win without a franchise QB. Let´s look back at the last 20 years or so, shall we? Who wins superbowls?

Ben Rothlisberger
Brady times three
Brad Johnson
Trent Dilfer
Kurt Warner
John Elway times two
Brett Favre
Troy Aikman times three
Steve Young
Mark Rypien
Jeff Hostetler
Joe Montana times two
Doug Williams
Phil Simms

Now, my point is, that out of the last twenty SB winners, 15 were won with franchise QB´s. That´s 75%. It´s no coincidence that the teams with franchise QB´s are consistantly in it, year after year. The Redskins QB´s, Rypien and Williams, had solid if not spectacular careers, but had incredible SB performances. Dilfer is another QB on the list who had done very little else in his career. Hostetler and Johnson had solid careers but weren´t franchise QB´s. Warner is the lowest rated in my opinion out of the Franchise group. But he went again two years later and lost in an upset to a young guy named Brady. He bloomed late, and luckily for the Rams they cut him as soon as his skills had diminished. To me, what most of you are trying to say is that you´d rather take the Gibbsian approach to winning. Build the team around the QB first thinking that we can win it with a servicable QB who gets hot as the team around him peaks. Obviously, as Gibbs is our coach again, it makes sense to me and has the ring of foolishness to suggest otherwise. However, just imagine if we had a franchise QB? Would you trade that player for all the players and the members of the coaching staff of the #1 defense in the league? Do you trade Peyton Manning or Tom Brady for the Bears D? Absolutely not.

Let me repeat that: ABSOLUTELY NOT!

So, my point is that it all starts with a QB. Perhaps in other places the need is not quite as dire as it is here for us here in Skinsland. We haven´t had a franchise QB for decades and it is time to make that priority number one.

Dude your wrong.
Look at the facts:

Two of the greatest Franchise QB's of all time Dan Marino and Peyton Manning have ZERo Superbowl Wins between them. What do they have in common? They both played for teams with shitty defenses!
Another one, John Elway was crushed in every superbowl he was in, until late in his career when the Broncos developed a good defense and ran the ball with Terrell Davis who rushed for 158 yds and named MVP of Sb 32.
Defense wins championships and you do not win a super bowl with out a good defense. There has rarely, if ever been a super bowl winner that did not have at least a top five defense. Even the Greatest Show on Turf the St. Louis Rams super bowl teams had a top 5 defense statistically.

Regarding Frachise Qb's:
Correct me if I am wrong, but I understood Franchise QB by definition means (1) he was a high draft pick then (2) developed in to a great QB. John Elway Donovan McNabb, Peyton Manning,Steve Young and Ben Roethlisberger are or were franchise QB's.
Mark Rypien, Trent Dilfer, Tom Brady, Brad Johnson are not what you would consider Franchise QB's early in their careers. They might have become one after they won a SB. But Tom Brady was 6th round pick 199th over all. He was not considered a Franchise QB until after they won their second SB.

Bottom Line:
There have been more teams that have had strong Defenses and mediocre QB's win the SB than Great QB's with mediocre defenses. FACT.