These are my quarterback rankings for the NFL Playoffs which are just around the corner.
I’ll finish up with several bowls and the College Football Playoff, but this is when I begin my serious pivot to NFL football on my blog. You won’t get this from the Oklahoman or the Tulsa World…trust me on that. In places they won’t admit exist, they want someone like me covering NFL football in their pedestrian sports section. If you want some sissy metric bullshit this won’t be for you. This is about beating Vegas like a red-headed stepchild thru January and into February.
These are my Top NFL quarterbacks rankings heading into Week whatever it is this week. I know they play seventeen games, but I honestly don’t know how many weeks have been played so far.
1 Tom Brady Still the hoss and will continue to be the hoss until someone eliminates Tampa this season.
2 Patrick Mahomes After a sluggish start Patrick seems to be back at the top of his game and ready to pursue a second Super Bowl ring.
3 Aaron Rodgers Aaron is having a great season, but you always have to calibrate his stats with the fact he gets to play the pathetic Chicago Bears and the equally pathetic Detroit Lions four times every regular season. That would be like an OU quarterback getting play Kansas four times in a Big 12 season. Big 12 > NFC Central. Tell me I’m wrong.
4 Matthew Stafford We will finally get to see what kind of quarterback Matthew is now that’s he’s escaped from the Detroit Lions. His performance on Monday Night was scintillating and I don’t use the adjective scintillating all that often.
5 Josh Allen The problem here is that Buffalo has screwed around and may not even make the field as a wild card. Buffalo pulling its act together for the memory of Timmy Russert is something we should all be embracing.
6 Lamar Jackson We’re still waiting to see if LJ’s game translates beyond the regular season. My feeling is he takes too much of a physical beating to be fresh enough to be a difference maker in post season play. Kind of like Westbrook. Great in the regular season, but a dud once he starts playing good teams every week with the season riding on one loss.
7 Kyler Murray Kyler was abysmal on Monday Night throwing two horrific picks which in essence cost his team any chance whatsoever of beating the Rams. It was like watching a dwarf version of Spencer Sanders in the Big 12 Championship Game. That can’t contiuue if the Cards want to play more than one playoff game this January.
8 Mac Jones My hands down Rookie of the Year. I called this back in the summer the day of the NFL Draft. Jim Traber as per the norm had little if any clue. Mac Jones is what Sam Bradford would have looked like if he’d been fortunate enough to be drafted by Bilichick.
9 My on the bubble quarterback is Ryan Tannehill. He’s thrown too many picks so far this season, but otherwise I’m still keeping an eye on him.
Sadly…Russell Wilson didn’t make my list. Nor did the choking Dak Prescott.
My wife is playing Bread’s Greatest Hits as I write this so I obviously need to inject some NFL football music on this piece.
It’s supposed to get down to 19 degrees tonight in Deer Creek. Finally…some real football weather in Oklahoma.
Hope your NFL team plays well this week-end.
How this scene below didn’t win Rodney Dangerfield best supporting actor is still beyond me.