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Message: [QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 1071614, member: 39"] I disagree. You can be an 8-10 win team consistently, and occasionally have a "great" team, without 4-5 star guys littering a roster. Need an effective QB and a few others - and with winning comes a few - but you don't positively need to get 7-10 each year at every position. Look at the '98 McNabb year - we had some really good players at WR and RB, but outside of McNabb, Konrad, Mungro (who didn't really play much) and maybe Spotwood (who was hurt) who was a 4/5 star guy that was an impact guy? Kevin Johnson was a QB convert, Dee Brown the same, Kyle McIntosh was an effective college player, Darryl Daniel was a 2-star guy, Mo Jackson and Jeff Lowe were 5-7 at best, and the o-line was comprised of mostly 2-3 star guys (Kiernan may have been the exception, he was highly thought of out of CT). The defense, outside of Bullock was too. That year we nearly beat the eventual national champs and crushed the defending champs on the road in front of 100K+. We had, at MOST, 5 4/5 star guys that actually made a difference on that team. I know your argument will be "McNabb was a once in a lifetime player", and that we never won 10 games with him - and you'd be correct - but if we had even a serviceable QB to replace him we could have kept winning 8-10 games each year even after he left - I firmly believe that. And look at the one outlier when we did get serviceable play at QB - 10-3 with Freeney - a 2-3 star guy. Look at Boise State. If you have a plan and know what you're looking for - and have assistant coaches who are on the same page and can evaluate talent quickly and effectively - you can absolutely be an 8-10 win team without getting the cream of the crop every single year. You need impact players, but they don't need to be 4-5 star guys and don't need to be impact right from the jump. If Eduoard can pan out in the next couple years, and Hunt keeps progressing, we'll win 8-10 consistently over next 5 years. Book it. [/QUOTE]

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