The Colts, Saints and Giants also have (had) something else in common that we didn't.
I'll give you three guesses as to what that was.
And as I've mentioned about half a dozen times in other threads. Both Cruz and Garcon had very unspectacular, if not non-existent, rookie seasons at the WR position. They are actually not the exceptions to which I'm referring. They are part of the fantastical notion about rookie WRs that doesn't actually exist, and assuming our draftees are failures based on rookie seasons is holding them up to standards even the guys we are trying to emulate couldn't match.
They had one other thing we haven't had...consistency in leadership. Both in terms of coaching, scheme and front office management.
It's amazing to me, really, that the chasm-sized difference between teams with franchise QB's, and teams without, is still so easily and often ignored in discussions like this.
That is all.
Preach it, brother.