Luck is injured and on a bad team. There is no reasonable reason for anyone to change their opinion of him based on this season.
That's what's special about great QB's. They're few and far between. If the league was full of great ones there'd be nothing special about it.
When its all said and done I don't think Luck ends up with a HOF caliber career but that's just my personal opinion. Certainly fair enough to disagree with as there are statistics out there that can project I will be dead ass wrong. So maybe I will be. But I watch him play and I don't see Peyton Manning/Tom Brady/John Elway/Dan Marino, etc.... I see Drew Bledsoe. I see Donovan McNabb. I see Boomer Esiason. I see Steve McNair. I see Phillip Rivers. That's the type of career I see him having. Hall of Good to Very Good. I think he's been a beneficiary of a weak AFC and the most passing friendly era in history. that has inflated his reputation
Yup. totally. However I will say while this has always been true, there will always be just a couple special QBs, the bottom tier today is worse than other eras. In other eras there were just a couple of the special ones at the top, a handful of "good" qbs and the rest average with some below average. today it seems like there are still just a couple of the special ones at the top, a (smaller) handful of "good" qbs, with the most of the rest being very bad. basically if you aren't good you are terrible. but maybe that's nostalgia on my part. maybe the past eras looked like that too
maybe true, I don't have enough brain cells to spare room for remembering the bottom of the barrel nfl QB's of other decades. I also wouldn't use that metric to define whether or not a "golden age" exists. I don't think you're doing that, but I wanted to clarify.
The golden era of QBs were Staubach Bradshaw Greise Namath then Marino Kelly aikman etc. I think the golden age needs roman numerals
That's why Pats pay Brady just $8m a year so they can still get him enough weapons and win Superbowls and then compensate him later in illegal side-deals that will never see the public eye. Genius!
Holy shit, does Brady only make $8 mil? I'm not normally one to say "only" when talking about these ridiculous player salaries, but this is highly suspicious. Even factoring in a home discount and his destire to win I don't see how there isn't something illegal going on here. Anyone have any articles or links about this?
That's his base salary. Does not factor in his signing bonus. http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-england-patriots/tom-brady/
TYVM! Okay, that makes much more sense. Still, Brady is averaging in the middle teens or so. Given the inflated nature of contemporary QB salaries that is a freakin' bargain. (I NEVER thought I'd say anyone making over $10mil was a bargain....). I do wonder if there is t a little side dealing happening here. Either that or Brady genuinely wants to win and is willing to leave millions on the table to do it. Maybe he is, but I just can't he,p but wonder if he has been compensated somewhere else.
Forget the fact that his wife (until her recent retirement) banked far much more than him, but the dude will be a Patriot employee for life at this point. Why would he care what he makes over the next 3 years knowing he's gonna get paid for life? Hell, he just restructured his contract for more money as it is. Who needs a side deal?
