if you could start a team with a qb and not much else (1 Viewer)

[bostonfred]

A few teams doing that right now. The colts are probably the best example, with a total overhaul from the front office down. The redkins are sort of doing the same, but have a lot more piece in place, and brought in guys like garcon to go with their prize qb. The jaguars are building around gabbert, but already had a decent defense and running game. The bengals have a young stud qb, wr and te, and an emerging defense, and are pursuing wr depth.

So my question is, how would you ideally want to approach a franchise rebuild, if you had a young stud qb to work with? Would you start over, figure out what you've got, and build from there, like the colts? Would you start with a great coach and find a talent to match, like the redskins? Would you want to add your young qb into an existing team and get them experience, then add pieces, like the jags? Or start with a ready made team, like the bengals?

Some recent examples to work with: eli, flacco, roethlisberger, brady, rodgers... lots of interesting history in the way these guys came in.

 

[lsutigers]

It's a bit of a perfect storm for the Colts, who had an aging team. The Colts have the proven right way. They've already accomplished it once. The key is continuing to draft well. FA's will want to come to a young team with promise, just be careful with how much money you throw out.

The Washington route is going to turn out disastrous. Who are their starting WR's? Who knows. Let's just throw money at the problem.

 

[Ilov80s]

Definitely a ready made team, look at the success guys like Ben, Dalton, Cam (offense was good), and Sanchez had stepping into well built teams.

 

[bostonfred]

Definitely a ready made team, look at the success guys like Ben, Dalton, Cam (offense was good), and Sanchez had stepping into well built teams.

Roethlisberger and sanchez are good examples of guys who had a ready made team. Cinci didn't. Cinci is turning over every offensive skill position and some linemen between the day dalton was drafted and the start of his sophomore season. As for cam, im not sure. His best wr is getting older, and while lafell could be good, they're not really built to grow with cam. They're built for cam to step in and be great right now, but they're going to be chasing offensive talent later, and they still need to build a defense now. It could work great, and there's reason to be excited, but im not sure its ideal.That may help your point, though.

 

[bostonfred]

It's a bit of a perfect storm for the Colts, who had an aging team. The Colts have the proven right way. They've already accomplished it once. The key is continuing to draft well. FA's will want to come to a young team with promise, just be careful with how much money you throw out. The Washington route is going to turn out disastrous. Who are their starting WR's? Who knows. Let's just throw money at the problem.

Yeah, the colts may be in the ideal rebuild. But they're also leaving everything to chance. They have a new head coach, new gm, new coordinator on offense who has a totally different philosophy, new defense which is even more different with the 3-4, and new players at so many spots. Yes, they can fil in the blanks with free agents and draft picks, but its going to take a few years to find out which spots they need to fill, and they don't have young receiving talent for luck to build with. As for the redskins, they do have a coach and a coordinator and the players know the offense. Rg3 is a perfect fit for shanahan with his rollout ability, and has garcon on board as a young receiver entering his prime, and moss as an older receiver to help them immediately and in the eventual transition. They wont get #1 picks for a while, but theyve never had trouble getting free agents, and with rg3, they should be able to get depth in addition to their annual big name. But the big thing to me is the coach-coordinator-qb connection, which I think is critical early on.

 

[petenice15]

I think the best way to start a franchise is obviously with a stud QB and then big, fast fat guys on both sides of the ball. Fantasy players seem to forget that a good team in built in the trenches.