The problem is that the NFL has boxed itself into a corner.
The rules favor teams with a great QB now. You almost cannot win without a great QB.
Minnesota and the Eagles are maybe showing some pathways teams can use instead but before the rules it was very possible to make it to the SB with a great defense and a great run game.
The biggest rule change is that stupid 5 yard holding automatic first down rule. Holding should be 10 yards. No first down.
I have seen 3rd and 30 plays where a ticky tack holding call gets a first down. It is ridiculous enough that the offense has all the benefit of the doubt, that play tilts the advantage ridiculously in favor of the QB.
Frankly, there needs to be a cap on PI as well. One bad call can put a team on the goal line and I have seen it happen numerous times. Make it 25 yards if you have to but allowing a team to just chuck it up and end up at the 10 because of it is ridiculous.
If we stop putting in rules that overweight the impact of the QB, then the NFL won't subject 80% of the other teams to having no chance because they don't have a premiere QB. That will allow some teams to decide to load up with defense instead of paying QBs 170M and it will stop the ridiculous upward pressure on QB salaries because great QBs are such a scare resource their escalating salaries are pushing up the mediocre QB salaries.
We already have a situation where teams realize that a #1 QB is paramount for long term success and since #1 QBs really can only be gotten with the 1st pick (maybe 2nd or 3rd) - you enter a situation where teams have to compete with each other to be as terrible as possible to get a bad enough record for the 1st pick. Just to get a shot at long term success.
What the NFL did is put rules in place that artificially added close to 30% extra production from the QBs. Remember when the Greatest Show on Turf was throwing for 300 yards and that was impressive? Now everyone throws for 300, because drives are artificially revived with these rules. But it means QBs look better than they are, cost more than they should, and teams without a QB have to keep getting on the Merry-Go-Round draft cycle hoping to get one.