Still no.
Why would I trade a QB that had proven he can win SBs AND a HOF RB just for the upgrade at QB? Even if it is significant?
For a QB who could win 5 Super Bowls without a Hall of Fame RB?
And again, you aren't stuck with Joseph Addai. Go out and draft a first round RB next year. Many RBs will excel behind this OL.
Obviously this is a hypothetical and I'm not saying Prescott is Aikman or Wentz is Brady. Just saying I think there is some merit to whether a significant QB upgrade, from, say, Pro Bowler to All Pro at QB, is worth the tradeoff from All Pro to average RB.
I think there is a case to be made that it is worth that trade off, especially when you have an OL like ours that will spring many solid RBs to amazing seasons.
I hate to say it but I think I trade Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman for Tom Brady all day long.
You're still losing way too much and that wouldn't make sense if you already had a QB capable of winning it all.
I am not sure there is a "too much" you could lose for a year-in, year-out All Pro QB. Especially when the cost is one additional player only.
Now in the case of Dak and Wentz, it's too early to tell what each of their ceilings is.
Of course. No one knows.
My personal opinion, and I think it's one that was bantered about roundly on this board by many posters, maybe even you, as late as a few weeks ago, is that, uh oh, it looks like Dak is struggling to be the focal point of this offense.
Dak has proven to be excellent when the run game is working. I don't believe he has shown quite the downfield, take-over-a-game-by-himself passing ability that Wentz has though. I also believe Wentz could be equal to Dak as a game-manager when a run game was working.
Gun to my head, right now, I take Wentz.
I'm not saying I'd trade Dak and Elliott for Wentz and whatever RB.
But I do think it's worth thinking about.
So knowing what we do right now, I don't take the upgrade at QB if it means I take a serious downgrade at RB which in turn decreases our overall level as a team.
It would be idiotic to do something like that today.
I don't agree that upgrading QB but downgrading RB "decreases our overall level as a team."
If you have an All-Pro QB -- let's take Brady and Manning off the table as all timers, heck, let's take Rodgers off too -- but say more on par with a Drew Brees. I mean.... that is just completely invaluable.
Yeah, I don't know if Wentz will be that. I don't know if Prescott will be Russell Wilson, more of a pedestrian regular season QB who needs some help but elevates his game in the playoffs and wins. I don't know.
But if I did know that Wentz was Brees and Prescott was Russell Wilson, I would not only swap the QBs, I would throw in Elliott, Bryant, and maybe Lee too. With our OL we will absolutely find another 1500 yard running back here, and a Drew Brees type QB will make a lot of less talented WRs produce more than Dez Bryant has been producing with Dak.
I think, if anything, swapping out to an All-Pro QB makes you better.
One of the biggest reasons is, again, just because you trade away 2 or 3 for 1, doesn't mean you are stuck with backups at those other positons. Consolidating assets into an elite piece, then let's you go out and replace the parts you traded away with future draft picks and free agent contracts. We aren't stuck with Alfred Morris forever if we trade away Elliott. We could draft a stud RB in the first who turns into another 1500 yard back.
