It’s a lot harder and requires more luck to build a “super team” with a very good/not mega star QB. A whole number of things have to go well over a 5-10 year span to get it to work. And it should also be noted that the examples of “super teams” which have gotten to the Super Bowl are NFC teams who haven’t had to go through a gauntlet of QB’s like the AFC currently hasOption #2 is riskier and certainly far less proven, but I don't think that it's a given that it's impossible (or a coping mechanism). The Niners keep making it to Super Bowls doing this, as do the Eagles. If you look at the Super Bowl participants and champions of the last 20 years, there are plenty of guys on that list who are not elite QBs. Eli Manning has two rings and a .500 record and 60% career completion percentage.
I don't want to go that route, but we dismiss it as crazy talk too easily IMO.
You need to have above average draft results for a prolonged period of time
Multiple generational or hall of fame caliber players at key positions, sometimes acquired by impossible to predict trades (how often is a generational RB/offensive weapon like McCaffrey or a HOF LT like Williams available for cheap?). Even guys like AJ Brown don’t come along often in trades
Find a very good QB outside of round 1 (less than 5% chance)
Be able to overcome wasted 1st round picks (Trey Lance deal, Eagles taking Reagor and a couple others)
Find elite players in mid/late rounds of the draft (e.g. Kittle)
Have a fairly soft route to the Super Bowl
All that to come up short when going against a true elite QB
NY Giants are kind of an anomaly. As much as people dunk on Eli, he was a good QB capable of playing like an elite QB and had a perfect storm of stuff occurring to get him both those Super Bowl wins.
The idea that it’s easier or less risky to try to build out a roster with enough elite pieces to consistently overcome a significant QB gap just isn’t based in reality.