It really seems like there's a lack of QB talent in the league right now. There's a few teams that have legit franchise worthy QBs and a bunch of guys who I have no confidence in, and a few question marks.
I mean just for fun, looking at the league:
Patriots: Jones is a ?? for me right now. He might turn out OK and be their guy but their success was really predicated on their defense. And now without McDaniels, how good will Jones be? (by the way, McDaniels leaving for the Raiders proves that when BB/Kraft talked him out of the Colts job, it wasn't because they promised him something special within their org, it was just a screw job against the Colts)
Bills: Allen is legit
Dolphins: I have no confidence in Tua and we all know Jacoby isn't it
Jets: Wilson might still be a ?? but personally I don't think he'll be any good
Bengals: Burrow is the man for sure
Ravens: Jackson is legit but possibly not good enough to get them all the way, they really melted down late in the season. Tyler Huntley is probably not going to amount to anything.
Steelers: Big Ben is gone, no one on their depth chart is gonna be the guy
Browns: I suppose Mayfield is the guy, but closer to ??
Colts: Wentz is clearly in the ?? domain
Titans: Tannehil is probably in the ??domain too, so far not enough to warrant the label franchise QB
Jags: clearly have promise but only time will tell with mr shampoo commercial
Texans: they have no one (Watson doesn't count, his career is over)
Chargers: clearly Herbert is the guy
Chiefs: no doubt about Mahomes
Raiders: Carr is probably past his window, but maybe McDaniels does something good with him. So I'll call it a ?? here. It's a no to Mariota
Broncos: Lock, Bridgewater, they all suck
Thats 16 teams in the AFC and only 5 QBs that would one even consider legitimate players that can lead a team to a superbowl (Mahomes, Herbert, Allen, Burrow, Lawrence), and 6 maybes (??, Wentz, Tannehil, Jones, Carr, Mayfield, Jackson) and out of them only 1 or 2, at most 3, are probably legit (Jackson, Mayfield, Jones, in that order).
That leaves at most only half of the AFC with a real QB, the rest are needing to upgrade. Of the 8 that I named, they are all locked up.
Seems like the numbers are even worse in the NFC.
The real QBs would be:
Rodgers (but also he's 38, he is not a long term solution for anyone except the packers)
Prescott (but I have my doubts about him sometimes)
Stafford
R. Wilson (though he just had a bad year too)
And that's literally it, 4 franchise QBs, assuming Brady really retires.
Murray is a headcase. Jimmy G is always injured. Cousins, Trubisky, Goff, Winston, Hurts, Minshew, they are all JAGs. Cam Newton sucks.
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