Chris Simms
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He said,
When we were getting ready to draft Ben Roethlisberger, we had already made ourselves a really good team.
So the quarterback came into a good team instead of let's build around the quarterback and have him try to make like Fernando Mendoza.
Yeah.
I mean, hopefully they're building the team.
It's a good enough team that he comes in instead of saying, hey, you're the number one pick.
Go out there and be a savior.
Yeah, and that's the way it should be.
And see, that's the way I was trying to kind of explain to Arizona, and you said it a better way there.
I don't think they weren't going to โ the Jets weren't going to be, oh, we're going to reach and take a quarterback we don't like just because everybody says we need a quarterback.
No, they're going, wait, we got Geno.
Geno's damn good if you can help him out a little bit.
Same with the Cardinals and Jacoby Brissett.
Let's build the team, and then if Arch Manning's there next year, boom, he's ours, and he can come in and be really good right away because we got the support around him.
And, you know, we've had too many times in history where you just said it.
Like, we get the quarterback and you go, okay, but the rest of the team stinks.
It doesn't matter if it's Superman or whoever.
John Elway, they're not going to be very good with this team.
And I think we've seen this.
Detroit.