It seems ludicrous to say any team is “just a quarterback away” from contending when that’s by far the most important position in sports. If a team doesn’t have a quarterback, it doesn’t have anything.
But there are always teams that seem to have the other pieces in place, and if they hit the moonshot of landing a top quarterback, they instantly shoot to the top of the NFL. The last two champions pulled that off as the Rams ponied up for Matt Stafford last year and the Bucs recruited Tom Brady the year before.
