Buffalo Rumblings
There are no shortage of NFL quarterback debates to be found on social media and within the podcast sphere. It’s a subject of debate as old as the moment we normalized throwing footballs with real craft. “Who’s the best QB in the NFL” barely takes a two-week vacation before folks are ready to throw down and crown a new name.
Let’s be honest here: Part of the endeavor is meant to influence an audience to click, watch, subscribe, and otherwise assist the monetization of internet content creation. Everyone is “someone” when it comes to discussing a topic these days, right? So, naturally, it makes sense that anyone who is interested in football and covers it for an audience should feel compelled to weigh in on their standards for the game’s best passer. Right?
Maybe not. If you’re like me, it sure feels as though we’ve reached a saturation point for the topic. Yet you also understand that the topic isn’t going away. Ever.
People who debate about the game’s best quarterbacks will come and go. The further we get from some of the sport’s all-time greats, the less we’ll hear those names raised up these days given a proper lay up in the arena. If humanity manages to survive another 100 years, you can be certain someone somewhere will be debating who among the day’s best quarterbacks is actually the best — all brought to you via an Ai neuralink now embedded in human brains. It’s inescapable, and will only becomes more so in time.
Putting the facts-leaning sci-fi aside, readers of Buffalo Rumblings might have guessed at this point that someone, somewhere, has roped Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen into another round of “is he or isn’t he” while trying to name the NFL’s best current quarterback.
I’m not here to write 1,200 words on why Allen is or isn’t at the top, and that’s simply because I no longer really care a great deal. It’s like trying to decide between the best Porsche 911 ever made. There are no wrong choices at the top of the list. No matter where one places Allen, his greatness is undeniable. The Bills are exceedingly fortunate to have drafted him into an environment best-suited to bring out the best in his professional career.
The game of football is a team sport, and that fact alone has a great deal to do with why Josh Allen has yet to win a Super Bowl. Too many things must go right for Allen to reach the heights (annoyingly) familiar to Patrick Mahomes. Even Mahomes realizes that about himself, and you can bet he feels damn lucky to have accomplished what he did early on in his career.
Still, even Mahomes isn’t immune to the podcast angst. One need also only look back to the “rivalry” between Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. The constant debate about who was better failed to recognize that both were equally elite.
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