Quarterbacks Don’t Matter
With all this talk about Bret Favre going to play for the Jets I think we should all remember that Quarterbacks have little to no influence on how a team does.
A football teams winning or losing is based on long-term macro cycles of recruiting and scheduling. While a quarterback playing well or playing poorly gets all the attention in the press, what most people don’t see is that teams win or lose based on literally thousands of factors that the quarteback does not control.
For example, when Farve was playing in Green Bay for years he was the beneficiary of a positive playing cycle. He was simply in the right place in the right time.
Conversely, when it looked like Donovan McNabb was punking out over the past few years, he was really just the hapless victim of a down cycle.
All the talk about completions, interceptions, leadership is all just sportswriter hocus-pocus. The truth is quarterbacks don’t matter.
Wow…it took a football analogy, but I think you might be starting to understand politics.
Good on ya, mate!
Quarterbacks matter, they matter a lot, but like Joe Montana playing for the Chiefs, a top quarterback just isn’t enough.
Problem number one: no quarterback is better than his offensive line. With the Jets, you don’t even need to find problem number two for Mr Favre.
Put a shitty QB on a great team and you’ll see just how much QB’s matter.
Mike W,
I could not agree more.
it depends on the offense…
Pssst….
“quarterback” means President.
I guess you could read it that way.