Don’t believe QB tease
This Sunday’s unlikely trio does not mean new era is dawning
There’s no surprise what wins in this league: Passing or stopping the pass.
Randomness is no blueprint, and luck isn’t logical, so you have a growing analysis of the absurd spewing before Sunday’s NFL Championship Games.
Because Philadelphia’s Nick Foles inherited injured starter Carson Wentz’s season … because Minnesota and Case Keenum advanced on a miracle play … because Jacksonville’s Blake Bortles is still around … not needing a star quarterback is being touted as some new-age script. Hooey. But this is what’s being sold before these big games. A new path is being advanced. A different way to build a team. You don’t need a great quarterback like New England’s Tom Brady, the fourth one playing Sunday. You can build everything else and prop up any quarterback like plywood.
The academics have a term for this sort of hot-take babble. Recency Bias, they call this use of the here and now as some baseline for all decisions. Trent Dilfer Bias sounds better considering he’s the poster quarterback for those saying you don’t need a great one to win.
Maybe you won’t need a great one again this year. Maybe this is the outlier of this NFL generation, just as it was for Dilfer winning with Baltimore in 2001.
Maybe Brady’s injured thumb prevents him from throwing tight spirals, and Bor-