Because more than one person thinks your magic QB theory is garbage? Sounds legit.
It’s garbage because it attributes team success to one person rather than the team.
We know it to be garbage because stats and facts prove it.
When two QB’s are ranked #1 and #2 in total offense in 2020, but the QB1 wins 4 games while the second wins 14…. it has absolutely nothing to do with a difference between QB’s and everything to do with the quality of team around them.
This is one of the many "how hard is this to grasp?" points of fandom
Most important position on the field =/= only position on the field
Other fun ideas from this thread, page 1, straight to the OMG pile:
The Pats' "lackluster spending"
Okay why do I have to say this... but...
You can have a lackluster performance. You can have humble, or underwhelming, or perhaps even
parsimonious spending. But you're missing the point if you believe there's "lackluster" spending, or that if there is such a thing it's automatically bad. It implies that the opposite is spending at such a gaudy level that the spending itself is good without regard to results. Well, we had high-luster spending a couple of years ago, with mixed results at best; the kind of results you try to prop up by saying, yeah, but you don't know how bad we'd have been
without that spending, etc. I mean, I wanted more to pan out from that spree than did. But I don't say things like "say what you want about that spending, that was some Benjamin-Moore-High-Gloss-Plus-Stripper-Glitter spending. We won spending." (although at the time I came close, because that year there was a theory of a one-year sea-change in caponomics.)
Everything else aside, we'll spend to the cap or thereabouts... not as in, well, only 10% difference b/w us and the cap, more like to get to the cap we'lll taaaake... the overpriced set of tiki mugs and polynesian serving set and take the rest on a gift certificate.
Now that said... we didn't drop big ol' free agency outset bombs and we are all the way to the actual draft omg omg omg.
I am thrilled when I see the ST pickups and potential pickups. I don't know whether we did anything other than a swap of abilities by letting Mr. Underrated Meyers go and picking up JuJu--maybe a smidge more upside. At least we wont create a legion of woe-is-me-we-cant-move-the-chains whiners. Thus far, the build is not successfully duplicating the most successful years we've seen, and that's what everything's measured against.
We will always lose this comparison.
What we have done is built some pretty stout defenses and an absolute run game machine -- and you know if we hadn't done that we'd have every boohoo in the six states n beyond whining 24/7 too. Now QB and a game-changing WR are the measure of all things for the shiny-objects contingent. Last year was a weird experiment, and we're now behind on all sorts of timelines... we treaded water on two young QB timelines, although how Mac responded is a bit much. We really don't know how much/how badly we whiffed on some WR moves, though we still have the potential to learn more. We definitely would do well to land a gamechanging wideout... but if it doesn't happen, there are the other more achievable targets... quality O-line play, depth at all positions, a move up from gentleman's C to B at receiver, what benefits can come from coaching rather than experimenting on the O and along the O Line especially.
I'll totally get off on the Christmas-Eve feeling of the draft, I have no doubt. If my deep-cut binkie of Jack Coletto gets picked in NE or picked up as an UDFA so much better, and if we get that returner-receiver from the St. Louis Battlehawks by God I will be ecstatic.
(And of course I'm down if the shiny object du jour comes through... with or without spending with sufficient luster. I'd actually prefer without.)