Originally posted by Montana:
Originally posted by jimmy3233:
He's been a top 5 QB since he started in the Miami game with one mediocre season after the SB loss. Media is dumb as s**t and only looks at the physical features of QBs.
One big thing I want to point out that hasn't been discussed is the racial bias toward black QBs in the league. I understand they were discriminated against much earlier not getting opportunities that maybe they deserved but now the pendulum has swug completely around the other way.
Guys like Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts, CJ Stroud, and Jayden Daniels are no where close to the QB that Purdy is and he has more PLAYOFF wins than all of them. Yet no one EVER says something negative about them in a large part due to race. Example of this is when Dan Orlovsky pointed out predraft how he heard Fields was last to arrive at practice and first to leave (highly doubt he was lying given how big of a bust Fields was especially with processing). He had to immediately apologize as he was claimed to be a racist.
Big pretty boy QBs with nothing between their ears like Allen (never made a SB, 0-4 to the chiefs, insanely bad turnovers in multiple playoff games) and Herbert (never won a playoff game, worst QB in the league this year by every statistic measure) are treated like Gods by media.
Poor, little white guy Purdy can't catch a break. But Allen and Herbert who are also white, are over praised? Because they are big? I do think Allen is over glazed some but nothing between the ears? Lol. Lamar was the leader of the all time passer rating until Purdy just now passed him. But I guess he is nowhere near as good as Purdy? Slow Wednesday I guess. Gotta do better than this.
Ooft, I'm going to weigh in on this given I'm a bit older.
Now, to be fair, there's always been a size and arm strength thing at QB across the board. In the 80's everyone raved about big and big armed QB's like Marino and Elway, which led to many being resistant to recognizing Montana as better because he operated a new offense that required reading the field, timing and accuracy.
However, you're right, there was a bias against black QB's in the 80's and 90's and it was rightly called out and addressed. The problem is that the correction got conflated into a separate issue; there were a number of phenomenally athletic QBs who could play out of structure, but evaluators were too scared to be labelled racist if they pointed out that those QB's didn't always have to if the QB was black. If they missed a read, but the athleticism bailed them out, then the valid critique of missing the read was considered discriminatory or hateful and that continues to this day.
This has led to the current QB evaluation process being all about who can run around and throw bombs in backyard chaos rather than who can operate best in the structure of the offense. Now it seems to be thought that you can just teach a great athlete to be a great QB because it is assumed the mental side of the QB position can be learned by anyone. Where as what we're actually seeing now (and Brock exemplifies this) is that the mental attributes required to execute an offense are as exclusive as the physical attributes. You can improve, like you can improve your throwing technique, but there is a limit on how far you can go.
Allen will probably win MVP if the Bills reach the playoffs because he'll have these great chaotic highs that everyone remembers as a "wow how did he do that" and his head scratching poor plays will be forgotten about like they never happened.
The sign of a master of his craft is that he makes the difficult and complex things look simple and easy; that's what Brock is doing, but it won't impress the voters because it doesn't look sensational and because he was the last pick in the draft.
Well I guess you won't like a future thread titled "Brock Purdy vs Kurtis Rourke"❗
