Roster Building- Rank these 6 areas

[TwistedL0g1k]

Please start your post with only these 6 position groups ranked by importance:

1) QB
2) DL
3) OL
4) Offensive "skill"
5) Secondary
6) LB

I'm pretty confident of my ranking of 1-3, but less so of 4-6.

How do you rank the importance of these positions?

 

[calicowboy54]

in todays NFL i think its like so:
1. QB
2. OL
3. Offensive Skills
4. DL
5. Secondary
6. LB

what i want is what you have. Today Modern NFL is about offense and scoring points. they pad it that way for betting purposes, so Defense is handcuffed.

 

[DallasInDC]

1) QB
2) OL
3) DL
4) Offensive "skill"
5) Secondary
6) LB

 

[jblaze2004]

1) QB
2) OL
3) DL
4) Offensive "skill"
5) Secondary
6) LB

I believe this also

 

[Mikexike]

1) DL
2) OL
3) QB
4) O Skills
5) LB
6) Secondary

 

[Pass2Run]

OL/QB
DL
LB/secondary
Skill players

The truth is, you need them all.

 

[DRella]

1) QB
2) OL
3) DL
4) CB
5) RB

 

[VaqueroTD]

1) DL
2) OL
3) QB
4) O Skills
5) LB
6) Secondary

DL definitely underrated. Everyone knows how important a good pass rush can be, but lost in the usual hype for the skilled players is most recent Super Bowl winners had some dominant DTs. I used to rank offensive line higher until I saw our Great Wall 2 get pushed around in some of those playoff losses in the Romo-to-Dak years.

QB is definitely important but sometimes feel in recent years they have overpriced themselves. Great if you get a HOF QB but most of these guys breaking salary records are probably not HOF bound including our own Dak. You’re stuck with a huge contract if it doesn’t work out.

 

[cald0d30s0]

1. QB
2. DL
3. OL
4. Secondary
5. LB
6. O Skills

 

[Creeper]

Please start your post with only these 6 position groups ranked by importance:

1) QB
2) DL
3) OL
4) Offensive "skill"
5) Secondary
6) LB

I'm pretty confident of my ranking of 1-3, but less so of 4-6.

How do you rank the importance of these positions?

This is a tough assignment because having dominance in one area can make another area less important. A great offensive line can make up for a deficiency at the skill positions. Likewise a great pass rush can make up for a poor secondary, or a great secondary can make up for a mediocre pass rush.

I think the most important thing is for a team to have an identity. Play defense, high scoring offense, speed, power, just pick an identity and build towards that. I wish the Cowboys would play tough defense and run the football more. I would not build around Dak throwing the ball 40 times a game.

Butif we have to rank the position groups, I think your ranking is probably pretty close.

 

[Mikexike]

DL definitely underrated. Everyone knows how important a good pass rush can be, but lost in the usual hype for the skilled players is most recent Super Bowl winners had some dominant DTs. I used to rank offensive line higher until I saw our Great Wall 2 get pushed around in some of those playoff losses in the Romo-to-Dak years.

QB is definitely important but sometimes feel in recent years they have overpriced themselves. Great if you get a HOF QB but most of these guys breaking salary records are probably not HOF bound including our own Dak. You’re stuck with a huge contract if it doesn’t work out.

I value the trenches, especially seeing what the eagles have been doing and how they destroyed KC in the Superbowl.

Good D Line beats Great QBs most of the time.

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

This is a tough assignment because having dominance in one area can make another area less important. A great offensive line can make up for a deficiency at the skill positions. Likewise a great pass rush can make up for a poor secondary, or a great secondary can make up for a mediocre pass rush.

I think the most important thing is for a team to have an identity. Play defense, high scoring offense, speed, power, just pick an identity and build towards that. I wish the Cowboys would play tough defense and run the football more. I would not build around Dak throwing the ball 40 times a game.

Butif we have to rank the position groups, I think your ranking is probably pretty close.

I like your comments about the lines. When the OL is dominant, all of a sudden your QB looks better and the RB looks like a stud. Likewise, when the DL is dominant, the CB's start looking a lot better- getting more interceptions etc...

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

1) DL
2) OL
3) QB
4) O Skills
5) LB
6) Secondary

I’d flip OL and DL, and then flip LB and Secondary (in a 4-3/5-2)

Otherwise this is the closest to my belief

 

[75boyz]

Please start your post with only these 6 position groups ranked by importance:

1) QB
2) DL
3) OL
4) Offensive "skill"
5) Secondary
6) LB

I'm pretty confident of my ranking of 1-3, but less so of 4-6.

How do you rank the importance of these positions?

Nice post.
All I'm changing is LB to 5 and Secondary to 6.

 

[75boyz]

I like your comments about the lines. When the OL is dominant, all of a sudden your QB looks better and the RB looks like a stud. Likewise, when the DL is dominant, the CB's start looking a lot better- getting more interceptions etc...

I keep the DL and OL the same because of that rare elite find at QB.
Mahomes and Burrow have proven they possess the ability to reach/carry teams to a SB while behind not so great O lines.
*What they couldn't do in those SuperBowls is beat that dominant D Line.
That's why DLine gets a "slight" nod over oline for me.

*The same holds true for past elite, even HOF QBs like Brady as well.

 

[conner01]

in todays NFL i think its like so:
1. QB
2. OL
3. Offensive Skills
4. DL
5. Secondary
6. LB

what i want is what you have. Today Modern NFL is about offense and scoring points. they pad it that way for betting purposes, so Defense is handcuffed.

My option is you build the oline, then get your QB. No doubt QB is most important but for him to succeed you need a solid oline

 

[dupree89]

Please start your post with only these 6 position groups ranked by importance:

1) QB
2) DL
3) OL
4) Offensive "skill"
5) Secondary
6) LB

I'm pretty confident of my ranking of 1-3, but less so of 4-6.

How do you rank the importance of these positions?

QB
DL -edge rusher
secondary-CB
OL
Offense skill
LB

 

[starfan1]

1) OL
2) DL
3) Offensive skill
4) Secondary
5) QB
6) LB

I think QB is over rated when I see Eli Manning, Nick Foles, Trent Dilfers and the Flacco's of the world winning championships. Build a solid team and you can win with a QB that has the skills but dont have to carry the team. That said if your in a position to draft a generational QB like Brady and Mahomes and you got chopped liver then you do draft that guy. You don't sacrifice your future or current draft to do it though.

I love me some Troy Aikman but we have several QBs that have wore the star that could win with that team.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

QB
DL
Offensive Skill
OL
Secondary

 

[Adreme]

in todays NFL i think its like so:
1. QB
2. OL
3. Offensive Skills
4. DL
5. Secondary
6. LB

what i want is what you have. Today Modern NFL is about offense and scoring points. they pad it that way for betting purposes, so Defense is handcuffed.

I mean if we look at the last 15 Super Bowl winners only the Giants in 2011 had a below average defense. 2/3 of them had a top 10 overall defense (all but one were top 10 in points allowed) and about half had a defense in the top 5. This years Super Bowl was 2 of the best defenses in football and remember the Chiefs won last year with again one of the best defenses in football and a middling offense.

Now QB is obviously number 1 but I think we have been underrating the importance of defense for far too long.