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If you take a good player away and replace him with shit, your team will suffer. That doesn't make the good player a great player or a game changer - it just makes him an important player in a sport that values team play very highly.
There are great playmakers in the NFL, who take good or average teams and make them great. And there aren't that many of them. But most cannot be successful without decent players around them. Woodson at Oakland before being traded to GB, Steve Young in Tampa, James Lofton with 'noodle arm' Jim Zorn at QB, etc. etc.
It wold be interesting to see what Pittsburgh would look like with Zombo in place of Harrison or Curtis Painter running the Colts - or Matt Flynn with an entire season as GB QB. My prediction wold be that you get a version of the 2008 Patriots - competitive, but missing that edge. Yes, it's possible to neutralize one great player, especially if he has garbage around him, and it's possible to look pretty decent if you lose that difference maker, so long as you have a solid team around. That's because it's a real team game. But much more often than not, you're not going to get far in the Playoffs without one or two of those great difference makers on your team.
There are great playmakers in the NFL, who take good or average teams and make them great. And there aren't that many of them. But most cannot be successful without decent players around them. Woodson at Oakland before being traded to GB, Steve Young in Tampa, James Lofton with 'noodle arm' Jim Zorn at QB, etc. etc.
It wold be interesting to see what Pittsburgh would look like with Zombo in place of Harrison or Curtis Painter running the Colts - or Matt Flynn with an entire season as GB QB. My prediction wold be that you get a version of the 2008 Patriots - competitive, but missing that edge. Yes, it's possible to neutralize one great player, especially if he has garbage around him, and it's possible to look pretty decent if you lose that difference maker, so long as you have a solid team around. That's because it's a real team game. But much more often than not, you're not going to get far in the Playoffs without one or two of those great difference makers on your team.
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