I’m sorry dude you can’t be a mediocre qb and make it to the superbowl twice in three years with completely different oc’s and different rosters each time. And a mediocre qb doesn’t outplay the best qb of the generation twice on the biggest stage. Atp u just sound delusional lol
Hurts did NOT outplay Mahomes in 2023, I swear to God I have no clue where this narrative comes from. Mahomes on 1 leg was carving up Philly. And yes, a mediocre QB can make the superbowl 2 times when he has the #1 o-line, #1 RB, #2 receiving duo, and #1 defense. This is the most stacked team we’ve seen since the 90s Cowboys. Hurts is a Troy Aikman kinda guy. Good player, not great, and in the perfect situation.
Seeing you and orangutan go back and forth while having orangutan blocked is so funny cus I’m just imagining what kind of delusional ass paragraphs he’s spewing out. I mean it could literally be anything. I’m surprised he’s already gotten to the point of weirdly insulting you too lmao. Bros definitely going through it
I said he played mediocre not that he is mediocre. He’s a top 15 QB but not top 10, he’s too reliant on play calling and surrounding talent to play at a high level, he also avoids throwing over the middle of the field which isn’t something a top 10 QB does. Also it’s possible for a lesser QB to be on a great team and win a SB beating a far better QB, an older example of that is Eli Manning’s Giants beating Brady’s Patriots.
I would get your point we were talking about a regular season matchup but we’re talking about the Super Bowl against the reigning champs and the best team in the league and the best qb in the league. That’s the context that makes the stats matter. Jason Kelce didn’t make Jalen throw for 300 yds. Jalen had to do that. He had to make the plays.
Jalen did play well that game I won’t pretend he didn’t, but it wasn’t some all time game, and I stand by that he did not outplay Mahomes. After all, what is the job of the QB? To produce good team offense. Whose offense was better that game? Mahomes led a better offense, despite significantly less talent in his weapons and line, and did it against a better defense than Hurts had to go against.
This logic is so flawed. In order for a qb to be great, his receivers need to catch the ball. In order for the receivers to be great, the qb needs to make the throws. It’s a team game of course a player is elevated by their squad that’s why they are great. Mahomes wouldn’t be Mahomes on the Jets or the cardinals. Aj brown wasn’t elite until he went to the eagles. Lynch wasn’t great till he went to the Seahawks. Edelman was great until Brady. You don’t penalize a player for having great teammates
AJ Brown was elite before the Eagles and he was a big reason for why Tannehill had a career resurgence. Edelman was on the Patriots when Brady was already in the league for years tf is your argument there? Lynch already had back to back 1k yard 6+ TD seasons before being injured 3 years in a row.
Also typically when a team is stacked with talent it makes it much harder to stop them. The 49ers were able to be stopped bc their OL sucks in pass pro and their offense revolved too much around Deebo getting open and making plays in WR screens etc. The Chiefs had to stop those gimmick plays and wrap up CMC to stop that offense. The Eagles have Saquon a top 2 RB, the best OL, a top 3 WR duo, and a top 10 TE, when you’re that loaded it’s hard to stop. You can’t key in on the run bc the passing
Brown was great, but the Eagles brought him up to a different level no question. But again, great teams don’t discount great players. No SB winning team has ever not been great. We didn’t penalize tyreek hill when Mahomes was throwing to him. This logic doesn’t make sense and it’s not fair to the hard work these players do to make good plays.
that game truly was unwinnable for KC as long as Hurts played competently. Saquon demanded stacked boxes and the amazing pass protection meant the only way to get pressure was to blitz, both of which left Brown and Smith in man coverage, which is just impossible for any secondary. The only hope was to bet on Hurts to get flustered against the blitz like he used to, and props to him, he didn’t.
My argument is that these players were all able to reach their greatness because they had great teammates. In football it’s impossible for a player to truly carry a team because of how much of a team sport it is. So penalizing a player because they have great teammates is counterintuitive. Great teammates make a great players that’s how it works.
The Eagles didn’t bring him up another level because he bettered his skills there. They brought him up a level bc he was finally in an offense that wasn’t reliant on him and Henry to make plays. A great WR is going to play even better when the QB has an elite OL and when there’s another talented WR opposite of him along with a great TE. It’s pretty simple that if a talented player goes to a loaded team that less teams can double team him all game.
Boohoo you had to deal with mediocre play calling in 2023 and 2021 (before Steichen took over). A top QB overcomes mediocre play-calling on offense, Herbert has done it, Burrow has done it, Lamar and Allen also have done it. There’s no excuse for Hurts to have played the way he did when he had far better talent around him than those QBs.
He didn’t tho bc he got embarrassed by the Bucs in 2023 and in the last couple regular season games. And the most recent year he rode the coattails of Barkley to a SB and then got the easiest game ever barely getting pressured and getting to toss up 1on1 balls to his receivers. Then you go back to the Steichen year where he had an offensive mastermind telling him what to do and designing an unstoppable offense.
He made the plays. That’s his job. You can’t take that away from him. If Lamar, Allen, and Burrow made the plays maybe they’d have more too show for it. Well maybe not Burrow cs his team is ass. Also the chiefs were a great team and most people had them over the eagles. We beat their ass so bad that yall keep forgetting that.
Literally nobody was saying that an injured Chiefs team was going to win. The Eagles were the favorites and the Chiefs were underdogs. They had literal backups starting on their OL and arguably their best offensive lineman playing out of position. And yeah I will take that away from him bc every starting QB in the NFL outside of Deshaun Watson would’ve went nuclear that game. Having a clean pocket for 80-90% of the game and good 1on1 matchups with great receivers is a QB’s wet dream.