The QB does not make the team, the TEAM makes the team. Look at the past superbowl winners. Seattle, New England, Pittsburg, Tampa Bay,even the Baltimore Ravens won one. Peyton Manning is arguably the best QB out there and how many superbowls has he won.... 0 Pittsburg's QB Ben Roethlingsberger isn't all that but with a good surrounding team he's good.. When Tampa Bay won a few years back they had Brad Johnson as there QB and he's by no means the best. When the Ravens won they had Trent Dilfer, by no means the best. New England went with there 3rd string QB and won a super bowl, just imagine if Bledsoe would have never got hurt, you wouldn't even know who Tom Brady is unless you watch Michigan college games. Basically in the NFL its all about team defense and limiting turnovers. You can have the best offense ever put together ( like the old Rams, and the Colts ) and it won't help you one bit. That's been Brett Favre's biggest problem his whole carear, he can throw for 400 yards a game but he's going to turn the ball over a few times, same thing with the Colts. To be a solid team you just need a QB who has an ok arm, but the main thing to look for in a QB is how smart the guy is. QB's like Dilfer and Johnson know there not going to throw 50 points up every game so they play the ball control game. I think this is best summed up by looking at the New England Patriots, they have won 3 bowls in 5 years, that's a mark of a great team. It doesn't matter who the running back is, or who the wide outs are, or really even who the QB is. They could plug anybody into those roles and still find a way to win. I don't think there is any other team in the league that would start there 3rd stringer over the starter 3 games into the new season, but the Pats realized that Bledsoe is just a gunslinger all he wants to do is throw it 60 yards each play and hope one of his guys comes down with it. They switched to Brady who shortenned up the routes and went to a 5 wide reciever set and threw 5-8 yard passes on each play and limited interceptions and it really worked out well for them, not to mention they have a great D every year which is another thing all the past bowl winners have had. Sorry for the long post but it annoy's me when people try to say that so and so was the only reason that a team was successful. They may be successful in the regular season, but when the playoffs roll around its going to be the team with good defense that plays ball control and limits its turnovers... The Eagles had a good team, a menacing defense last year, 2 solid running backs, and good depth at most positions. They could have thrown there backup QB in and he would have done just as well IMHO, but this year they lost 2 linebackers and a real good defensive end and I think that's hurting them allot more than loosing TO who has really been a dissapointment AGAIN but this time with my Cowboys, the players all need to get together on these teams and say that they don't want players like him or Randy Moss or any of the high priced, loud mouthed distractions, all they do is cause problems. heck even when I was at University of Texas, nobody on the team wanted Ricky Williams at running back, he was a great runner for sure, but the main reason he got all those yards at UT were because of his offensive line, we opened holes big enough that any idiot could have rushed for 120+ a game with no problem. The biggest gripe everyone had with him was that he never practiced hard and he gave up on runs, and closed his eyes when running the ball. He wouldn't participate in any of the team meetings and sat in the back during all the film studies we had. Basically it didn't appear to us that he wanted to be a part of the team, but coach Brown recruited him so he started ( same thing with Chris Simms), we benched the Big 12 player of the year Major Applewhite and started Phil Simms kid just because Mack recruited him. To the rest of the team it looked like they were playing favorites and was the main reason we didn't do to well with Simms at QB, at least my senior year. His last 2 years he looked better but in no way should he have ever gotten the starting role
