It’s becoming harder and
harder to judge quarterbacks in the NFL! Many people like to use the Super Bowl
measuring stick. You know when your greatness is defined by how many super
bowls wins the players has. The problem with using super bowls is that they’re a
team accomplishments. Don’t get me wrong you must have at least one super bowl
win in order to be considered great but it isn’t the end all be all.
Then
you have the people that want to judge by the numbers. Those guys are like ESPN
and take the states from a small period of a players career and match them up
with the others. Stats to me are manipulated in the favor of whoever wants to
win the argument. When discussing great players you have to use the entire body
of work and not these segmented periods, to determine which one is better. Also
stats are an direct reflection of the era of which the player played.
Quarterbacks didn’t have to throw the ball 30 times a game in the 50s, 60s, or
70s. They didn’t throw as much in the 80s and 90s as they do now. In my opinion,
stats aren’t a good barometer for determining greatness.
That
leaves us with the eye test as the measuring stick. Its hard to be non-bias
when using the eye test because most of the times a player caught your eye for
one reason or another. For me it’s Cam Newton! I’m a huge Cam Newton fan, 99%
of the things I say about Cam are going to be favorable. That means I’m looking
at his game through rose colored glasses. Whichever method you want to use stand
by it and own it. That leads me to Ron Jaworski.
Ron
Jaworski shut the hell up! He has been quoted saying “Dak Prescott is already a
top ten quarterback.” First off, this is the say guy that said “Colin Kaepernick
is going to be the greatest QB to ever play the game.” Three years later, Kap
is looking for team to play for. Jaws has no creditability. He wasn’t a great
quarterback when he played, he isn’t able to judge a quarter any better than
the next FAN!
The
second thing is that Dak has only played one season in the league. We all know
that I’m as big a Cowboys fan as anyone in the world. I understand that it
takes time to be considered an elite quarterback. It also takes
accomplishments, and winning rookie of the year isn’t enough to place him ahead
of guys like Eli Manning or Phillip Rivers. I think Dak can have a huge year
and can outperform those two (especially Eli because he is a bum) but he still
hasn’t earned the node ahead of them.
Jaws
you have a quarterback in Philly by the name of Carson Wentz that is pretty
good. Spend more time talking about him and less time talking about my boy Dak!
Dak will be fine this season and going forward. We also don’t need blessing of
the great Ron Jaworiski to expedite he progression.
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