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Originally Posted by RealSNR
My opinion is we're still in dynasty mode in 2021. We're in dynasty mode as long as Mahomes is our starting QB. There will be some seasons in which we see downgrades of talent at certain positions. It's just going to happen. In many cases we'll be going into a season thinking we downgraded, when it reality we just got younger and cheaper at the position.
All teams will have to rely on these options going into any season. Hell, a center is pretty crucial to an OL's stability, and we flat out let that guy walk and gave the job to to Austin Reiter all because he was cheap. He had a tiny bit of experience coming in, but not much, and his injury history wasn't all that promising. And he wasn't the greatest C in the world, but we did win a Super Bowl with him.
That's going to have to happen. With any team. Any year. And just about any position. How many times has Tom Brady had a reduction of talent on paper going into the season? Just about every damn season. If Mahomes is truly great, he'll overcome it and give us some great seasons of football.
We won't win the Super Bowl every year. We're probably going to see one of these pieces of our Super Bowl core walk away after 2020. Probably multiple pieces. That's okay. The point is that with Mahomes, any given year is a possibility to win a Super Bowl. Aaron Rodgers hasn't been back to the Super Bowl, but how many conference championship games has he played in? Tons. That's called challenging for the Super Bowl. In some cases luck just wasn't on his side. In other cases those Green Bay teams overachieved just to get to that championship game in the first place. The good news is Andy Reid >>>> Mike McCarthy, and Brett Veach is barely 40 years old-- he's not a senile old man like Ted Thompson was.
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This is all supremely reasonable, but honestly, much of it was pre-rebuttaled in 2B in the OP.
Let us not forget how PHENOMENAL Brett Favre was at his peak, which was a good ten years. Peyton Manning is probably the best quarterback I’ve ever seen, talent-wise. Dan Marino was Next Level amazing.
The right QB isn’t enough. You need to construct a great system manned expertly. Brady had spare parts on offense for many years but he also had great defenses.
I think you’re on surer footing when you argue Reid/Veach is a better HC/GM combo than any of the above QBs had, but even then we can’t fully vouch for Veach yet. Our sample size with him is two years, and one of those years (2018) was pretty damn bad.