The offseason affords us time to ask questions we would never spend time on during the season. Some of these things fall into the “well, duh” category of things, but there often are times where we assume things that just aren’t so. We will look at three phases of the game that most pundits link to ultimate success. We will start with the idea that a championship team has to have a franchise quarterback. Words matter and they might not matter any more than they do in this regard. It might be more accurate to suggest that the quarterback has to perform like a franchise quarterback in order to win.