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Philadelphia Eagles need to take a quarterback in the first round of the 2016 NFL Draft

It’s an election year, and with it usually comes a memorable catch phrase. From "read my lips, no new taxes" to "binders full of women", there’s always a memorable one-liner or two. Wendy’s is to this day still using "where’s the beef", reminding many of when Walter Mondale asked Gary Hart that same question. One that particularly comes to mind is a simple but highly effective line that James Carville had hanging in Bill Clinton’s headquarters in 1992:

The economy, stupid.

Three simple words that helped focus the campaign strategy that ultimately won. The simplicity of the statement is ubiquitous, and in this football offseason, it can easily be modified to focus a strategy for a team:

The quarterback, stupid.