Yee of little faith!
Yee of little faith!
It may not look the same after '20, but I have a lot of faith in this franchise to always uphold the legacy of its predecessors. No matter who fills the shoes, the integrity of this team will always live on. Art Rooney II will make damn sure of that. Now if the team were to be sold off from the Rooney family, then I'd be more worried. Talent comes & goes, but ownership is where the true stability resides.
Of course there will be. Until they can provide a capable understudy or backup that shows promise, there will never be anything to prove otherwise. There are always hard times ahead when your franchise player is retiring. It may or may not be a rough couple years, hell even a decade or 2, but such is life in the NFL. Pretty rare when you have a Favre to Rodgers type situation or Manning to Luck (even though the Colts are squandering his talent). I know there are more examples, but its fairly rare to land a franchise QB on the tail end of the 1st round or later (Brady, Rodgers, Brees, etc). You just have to roll with the punches and trust that the scouts & coaches find gold every year.
Definitely wouldn't be comfortable with Laundry starting, but it could be a necessary evil if we want a high end draft pick. Jury is still out on Dobbs. Can't wait to see how he does in preseason football. At worst Dobbs can replace Landry and be a serviceable backup. But if after Ben retires they are content with going around 8-8 while they look for the QB of the future in the 12th-18th picks range then I'd prefer they took a legit shot at an FA QB to bridge the gap. They could easily do that with all the talent they have. I think that would be the route I would perfer.
