QBs influence the outcome of games more than any other position, resulting in the NFL becoming a QB driven league. They have more of an impact on the game than they’ve ever had before, because the NFL has evolved into a passing league. Many of the QBs today are dual threat, and can destroy a defense with their arm and their legs. It’s hard to win a Super Bowl these days without a great QB, because most Super Bowls come down to the QB having to make plays. It’s the most coveted/important position, therefore it should be the highest paid. League MVPs, Super Bowl MVPs, and the top player taken in the NFL draft are usually QBs. Can’t really understand why fans have so big an issue on the amount of money players, especially QBs make. You’re simply not going to win a championship trying to go cheap at QB. You have dimwits on this board that think you can simply build your team everywhere else and if you can build a great enough team, you can win with a lesser QB. I don’t care how great a team you build, eventually it will come down to your QB.
it is a challenge, but its also that the past 10 superbowls mostly been won by a generational QB like Mahomes and the Goat. those don't fall off the tree. that's why they are generational and the Goat.
the only exceptions are Philadelphia who won it with a back up (beating the goat) and a definitely over the hill Manning and Stafford, who at some point may have been elite, but he was just a good QB when Rams won it. But away from these two QBs who tend to dominate, there was a mixed bag of how you win a superbowl, where Eli won it, Russell won it, etc. yes, at those times they played at a very high level.
one common factor in most of the teams is a great to elite defense for the year they won it.
with that said, about a 1/3 of the superbowl QBs are good QBs, not generational or Elite, ala Hurts, Grapolo, Goff, Foles, Newton, Ryan, old manning.
still they played at a high level the year they made it to the superbowl, so to your point high Level QB play is needed. and I agree, you can't go cheap, unless you built a fantastic team around them and have an elite type defense.
