I don't know about "partitioning off", but I think dissecting, or more properly analyzing, is what this QB discussion is all about.
It's also why I chuckle every time I hear someone claim that Cousins will never win a championship. In effect, they claim to know the future, and making that claim is absurd.
I don't claim anything. I've said that my
feeling is that Cousins is not "the guy" and so I'd rather move on from him as soon as possible.
In the current NFL, there are only two ways to have a likely successful roster recipe:
- you have one of the few elite QB's, and you pay them like that (Rodgers, Brady, Mahomes, etc.)
- otherwise, you have to get lucky and draft a QB that is very good to near-elite and try to win while they're still on their cheap rookie deal. If you're extremely lucky, they'll morph into the above. Otherwise, you let them go in FA if they aren't, and try again.
You can certainly sign a non-elite FA QB, so long as you pay them like that. But winning this way is much less likely.
The only sure fire way to go wrong is to sign a non-elite FA QB, and pay them as if they were elite.
Guess which one we did?