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If Whaley and Rex are 100% successful in building the team they want (or more have been forced to build due to lack of QBs available), can we win a Superbowl?
Since the Bills do not seem to be pursuing a legit QB this off-season, it is forcing me to consider whether it actually is possible to win a Superbowl in the modern NFL with a great run game and great defense but bad QB play.
That seems to be what Rex and Whaley are going for here, so we better get used to it.
For arguments sake lets say they are successful at building a powerful and effective run game and our defense remains as good as last year. Lets say that Cassel/EJ play as well as they have in the past and are ineffective most of the time and are merely not blowing the game for their team on their best day.
Can that team win a Superbowl? Can it make the playoffs?
I know they don't really have a choice, so before you stomp your feet and say they have no other option we are talking not about whether or not they should do it but whether or not you are confident it will work. Also, before anyone says it Russel Wilson is an excellent QB and Dilfer/Johnson were outliers (and from what I think is a different era). In fact, I think that Wilson might be the worst QB to win a SB in the last 10 years and he is light years better than anyone we have.
Just curious what everyone thinks around here as I've been debating this with friends a lot lately. My opinion is that they have to do it, but I can't see how it will work. The Colts, for example, are considered in a class far ahead of us (and a SB contender possibly) yet are worse than us in almost every phase of the game. That's just my opinion and not really the thing I want to debate here, but you get my point. I hope this works, and it would be pretty cool to win old school, but I think the NFL is deliberately built to enable their marquee QBs to succeed.
Thoughts?
Since the Bills do not seem to be pursuing a legit QB this off-season, it is forcing me to consider whether it actually is possible to win a Superbowl in the modern NFL with a great run game and great defense but bad QB play.
That seems to be what Rex and Whaley are going for here, so we better get used to it.
For arguments sake lets say they are successful at building a powerful and effective run game and our defense remains as good as last year. Lets say that Cassel/EJ play as well as they have in the past and are ineffective most of the time and are merely not blowing the game for their team on their best day.
Can that team win a Superbowl? Can it make the playoffs?
I know they don't really have a choice, so before you stomp your feet and say they have no other option we are talking not about whether or not they should do it but whether or not you are confident it will work. Also, before anyone says it Russel Wilson is an excellent QB and Dilfer/Johnson were outliers (and from what I think is a different era). In fact, I think that Wilson might be the worst QB to win a SB in the last 10 years and he is light years better than anyone we have.
Just curious what everyone thinks around here as I've been debating this with friends a lot lately. My opinion is that they have to do it, but I can't see how it will work. The Colts, for example, are considered in a class far ahead of us (and a SB contender possibly) yet are worse than us in almost every phase of the game. That's just my opinion and not really the thing I want to debate here, but you get my point. I hope this works, and it would be pretty cool to win old school, but I think the NFL is deliberately built to enable their marquee QBs to succeed.
Thoughts?
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