In the NFL there is no black thread, it is a League so analyzed, so based on statistics, there is so much video and a studio team behind every desk that you cannot invent new ways to win. Everything is naked, exposed and if you don’t have a good quarterback, you are not going to succeed.
Obviously there have been exceptions in history; We all remember the great Ravens defense who didn’t need much of Trent Dilfer to win their first Super Bowl in 2000. The quarterback just completed 12 of 25 for 153 yards and not even that was necessary because those Ravens had one of the best defensive units in history.
The next great Hall of Fame Peyton Manning had even worse numbers than Dilfer. In Super Bowl 50 with the Broncos he completed 13 of 23 for 143 yards, no touchdown passes and an interception, his defense took care of the work and Denver’s 194 total yards of offense were enough to win by a score of 24-10 .
In today’s NFL it will be increasingly difficult to see something like this, a team that does not have a good quarterback, that is among the best in the League in terms of ability and ability, has no chance of going far.
Sean Payton -of the Saints- believed that with Taysom Hill, a kind of offensive todologist that could keep the first seed in the NFC, but yesterday he lost a key game that costs him for now to be # 2. It won’t be the same in January to rest for a week and hypothetically host the Conference Championship game at home as to do it in Lambeau against Aaron Rodgers at a temperature of -15 ° Celsius.
Hill was a rare species of quarterback at BYU, but he was used as a multi-functional player on offense, running, shooting, catching, whatever it took, the same thing he did for the Saints when Brees was healthy. Payton decided to go with him, rather than Jameis Winston, a well-trained quarterback, although he often makes a lot of mistakes.
It is no coincidence that today the contenders in the AFC and NFC have the best QBs in the League and favorites to be the MVP of the season: Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers.
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