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Originally Posted by Sublimity
I agree. I think there are a lot of comparisons to be made between McNabb and Vick (and I'm a Falcons/Vick fan) in that McNabb was an inaccurate scrambler before TO got there. Now he's an elite QB.
But it goes only so far. Some quarterbacks are good quarterbacks regardless. Tom Brady, for example, doesn't have much to work with outside Deion Branch, and he still performed well when Branch was hurt. Delhomme still did all right after Steve Smith was hurt for all of last year, once he found Muhammed (but then how much can be attributed to Muhsin?). I have a feeling others would be crap no matter who you put around them.
I think the O-line is probably the biggest single determiner though. No one is effective with no time to throw the ball.
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But to use the Brady example, he's never been an elite statistical QB--probably because he's never had an elite WR. If he had an elite guy who fit their scheme, would he have been the one setting records instead of Manning with Harrison and Culpepper with Moss? So even though he's done well without one, it's hard to say how well he would have done with one.