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Originally Posted by Arles
Even the better situations in guys like Watson, Dak and Goff - they still weren't ready in their early big games and cost their team when they first played (because they were still raw).
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Umm ... how much could Dak have cost his team when they went 13-3 in his first season?
For that matter, DeShaun was 3-3 before season ending injury - and with a QBR that would have been 3rd best in the league that season if he maintained it - on a team that went 1-9 in his absence.
You may have a case, but neither of those guys belong anywhere near making that case.
edit to add: As to the "when did it change" question, that's probably answered "once QBs began taking up crippling amounts of cap space".
Right now, essentially half (15 of 32) the teams in the NFL have a QB taking up at least 10% of their cap.
In 2000, only 4 QBs accounted for 10% of cap.
By 2013, that had climbed to 10 QBs.
If you're looking for where the thinking changed, the answer is probably found in there somewhere.