Twitter: Remaining quarterbacks in the playoffs were 1st round picks except Brock Purdy

[pitt33]

the guy with the most Super Bowls was a 6th rounder at 199.

Tell us something we dont know.

Hitting on Brady was equivalent to winning a billion dollar lottery for the Patriots.

Do better.

 

[Jayinem]

Surely even Jerry is not delusional enough to think we're going to win a Super Bowl with Dak Prescott a 4th round pick after proving over and over he isn't capable and then suddenly in his 30's he becomes capable. The whole notion is ridiculous.

Jerry has to always do it his way.

 

[SquidwardTentacles]

He's the exception, most Superbowl winners are 1st round picks

that exception has dominated all others in terms of appearances, wins, successful seasons.

 

[DFWJC]

Sure, if you need a starting QB (Dallas has not felt they needed one) then by all means take one in the first!

Just a note….last year, half of the final 4 QBs were not 1st rounders

 

[rambo2]

Good thing the Cowboys have a 1st round qb on the roster.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

I enjoy it when you stir the pot. Sadly, Jerry probably thinks the team has one in waiting, in Trey Lance. I cant make that jump at the moment.

Why not?

 

[Sydla]

And the year before, nearly half the QBs in the 2nd round were not first round picks.

This is not a defense of Dak.

 

[Ken]

I’ve been screaming it from the hill top for years now.

We know.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

I suppose if it works out for them, this could definitely be an argument for it. I guess only the Cowboys know his progress as a QB.

No....a lot of people here, apparently, know it too.

 

[Ken]

And the year before, nearly half the QBs in the 2nd round were not first round picks.

This is not a defense of Dak.

We know (2nd sentence)


It is another dumb argument. Especially when the guy with the most rings ever was a 6th rounder.

 

[MikeT22]

Any teams left in the playoffs that can't run the ball or stop the run?

Or going to Cabo?

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

How many 1st round picks are not in the playoffs?

How many players are not in the playoffs?

 

[MyFairLady]

All I know is that Dak was already a pretty big question mark when it came to playoff performance going into the game and what we witnessed against Green bay was absolutely shocking.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

We know (2nd sentence)


It is another dumb argument. Especially when the guy with the most rings ever was a 6th rounder.

outlier.
You never heard of it i see.

Any more examples?

 

[Reality]

LOL....what's not being said is this is the first year with this many 1st round QBs in the final 8 that I can remember. What was it last year? Mayfield and Goffs were run off their original teams......what does that say?

To me it says that coaching matters.

The Rams thought Stafford was so much better than Goff that they traded Goff, two first round picks and a third round pick to Detroit to get rid of Goff.

The Rams won a Super Bowl with Stafford quickly but nothing since, and now that Goff has had time to learn and improve like Stafford did with the Lions, Goff led his new team to a win against the Rams and Stafford this season.

Selecting a quarterback in the first round is by no means a guarantee your team will be in the playoffs, but hoping to strike gold in late rounds is even more of a gamble.

Quarterbacks cannot control who draft them and they cannot control who coaches them, but the odds of success are still much better with a non-reaching first round quarterback pick than they are with one from the later rounds.

Are there exceptions? Sure, Tom Brady, Brock Purdy, etc. are great examples of late round quarterbacks who have done well. There are also a lot of examples of first round quarterback busts.

Regardless of what you may think about first round quarterbacks in general, the last time the Cowboys selected a quarterback in the first round (which was 1989 .. 35 years ago), they ended up winning 3 Super Bowls.

In the 28 years since then, the Cowboys have avoided drafting first round quarterbacks and there have been no Super Bowls as a result.

While there are no guarantees, it's obvious after 28 years of failed seasons that what the Cowboys have been doing has not been working.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

All I know is that Dak was already a pretty big question mark when it came to playoff performance going into the game and what we witnessed against Green bay was absolutely shocking.

We talked about progress, developed, finally clicked.

All down the duty hole right quick!

Shocking!

 

[MikeT22]

We know (2nd sentence)


It is another dumb argument. Especially when the guy with the most rings ever was a 6th rounder.

You could play the percentages, or hang onto the one outlier.

 

[rambo2]

All I know is that Dak was already a pretty big question mark when it came to playoff performance going into the game and what we witnessed against Green bay was absolutely shocking.

What's really shocking is he set a Cowboys record for yards passing in a playoff game.

 

[Jayinem]

What's really shocking is he set a Cowboys record for yards passing in a playoff game.

Well he's probably the greatest garbage time QB the league has ever seen. He will not let his team lose by 40, but by only 16 instead.

 

[MyFairLady]

What's really shocking is he set a Cowboys record for yards passing in a playoff game.

Honestly somehow that just feels right.