Neither Brady, Manning, Brees nor Rodgers will enter the playoffs as serious Super Bowl contenders for the first time since 2001. That’s because NFL teams have finally reconsidered how they build around young quarterbacks, writes Rosenberg_Mike
The worst and most accurate observation you can make about Tom Brady right now is that he has the same chance of winning this year’s Super Bowl as Peyton Manning does. Brady’s Bucs might make the playoffs, but only for bookkeeping reasons:has to win the NFC South—it is, quite literally, in the rulebook. The Bucs are lousy and unworthy of belief, and Brady surely knows it.
It is a new era in the NFL, and that is not just because the names have changed. The game is different now, too. For the last two decades, the most conventional of all wisdom was that you either had an elite quarterback or had to search desperately for one. This infected seemingly every conversation about the league. It clouded the greatest coaching performance in NFL history; people whispered—some more loudly than others—that Bill Belichick won only because of Brady.
This belief that teams needed an elite quarterback affected vision, too. If you didn’t have Peyton, you convinced yourself Eli would play like Peyton when it mattered . The Rams traded way up to draft Jared Goff, who was not a superstar, and then paid him like a superstar when he was still not a superstar, and finally soured on him because he was not a superstar—instead of seeing him, all along, like the solid quarterback he still is.
Is Hurts truly one of the best players in the league, or have the Eagles just made him look like it? We can argue that, but it won’t really matter until it’s time to negotiate a contract extension. What is clear is that the Eagles are much better off with Hurts than they would have been if they kept convincing themselves Carson Wentz was the next Brady—and, remember, there was a brief, wondrous stretch in 2017 when Wentz was also being called an MVP candidate.
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