Pachyderm_Wave
Hartselle Tigers (15-0) 5-A State Champ
Running game and defense doesn't guarantee you anything either. Top quarterbacks win championships nowdays. At the very least, they keep you afloat and competing for championships through the multiple rebuilds and retools your team will go through in a decade. Defenses and running games are fickle by year. You're going to have to beat those elite quarterbacks in the playoffs, and you can't do it by hiding yours.
Nobody should know this better than the Dolphins - who missed the playoffs in 2002 with the league's leading rusher and the #4 defense in the league that contained both the league's leading sackers - because they didn't have a quarterback.
Miami doesn't have a front office or talent evaluators strong enough to rely on that method of building a team anyway. Their only shot is to hit big on an elite talent at quarterback that can hopefully provide enough of a window to catch lightning in a bottle a few times along the way and compete for a superbowl. The owner finally figured this out through trial and error - which is why Miami has set on the current path.
Nobody should know this better than the Dolphins - who missed the playoffs in 2002 with the league's leading rusher and the #4 defense in the league that contained both the league's leading sackers - because they didn't have a quarterback.
Miami doesn't have a front office or talent evaluators strong enough to rely on that method of building a team anyway. Their only shot is to hit big on an elite talent at quarterback that can hopefully provide enough of a window to catch lightning in a bottle a few times along the way and compete for a superbowl. The owner finally figured this out through trial and error - which is why Miami has set on the current path.
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