Chris Simms' Season 70 QB40 Countdown - #40-36
by JAMoney14 | 3 years ago | 0 Comments
It's the time of the year! #RZisBack!
It's time to hit em with the ole razzle dazzle. My Top 40 QB Countdown for Season 70. Here's how this is going to go.
- Over the next week+ I will be revealing my top 40 QBs for Season 70
- These are not projections. These are not overall rankings. These are not "future potential". You can get those anywhere. This is for this year and this year only.
- These are rankings based on 3 important factors:
Supporting Cast
Coaching Staff
Indivisual Talent
Those factors are in no particular order. We're going to keep it very simple here. If you disagree with these rankings? Well guess what? I don't give a shit. I almost died on the field playing this position in this sport at the highest level. You almost died last time you tried to walk to the bathroom in the dark. I'm smarter than you.
Let's get right to it:
#40 - Joe Flacco, Philadelphia Eagles
We're talking about a super bowl champion winning Quarterback at #40. Most media pundits will tell you that there's 8 good quarterbacks in the league, but that's just not true. There's maybe 8-10 GREAT on any given year, but there are "good" QBs everywhere. Flacco is a good example of that.
But let's try and bottle this in terms of this list. Flacco is good enough to maintain what I don't expect to be a very explosive offense in Philly. Jalen Hurts is obviously the starter and obviously has more talent, especially at this part of Elite Joe's career, but in terms of reliable backups who won't really kill the offense if he's forced into action, look no further.
#39 - Josh Rosen, Arizona Cardinals
Woah, talk about a falloff. The former 1st round pick never really got close to the top 20 in my QB rankings and he's falling fast. Especially with the emergence of Kyler Murray and an offense that is really Nuk and everyone else. Rosen has an average arm. Rosen has good accuracy. Rosen, at least at this point, looks like he's poised to be an affordable and reliable backup quarterback who is a little too old to sink real training time into.
Hey, you could do a lot worse for a backup than #39.
#38 - Jacoby Brissett, Miami Dolphins
Jacoby has had many opportunities to breakout in his career and that's something most QBs at the bottom of the depth chart beg for. I see a lot of myself in Jacoby, really. Both of us are guys who never really blew anyone out of the water, but never really sunk our teams alone either. I mean, I almost died on the field and Jacoby is still playing at a high level, so it's not quite the same.
Jacoby could easily start for a bad team in the league. There's plenty of placeholders on this list and, much like Rosen, Brissett is comfortably holding a clipboard waiting for Tua to run his little frame into a few 300 lb guys and get another shot to carry the load for a very hapless Dolphins offense. Brissett could have even been higher had his offense been more than adequate.
#37 - Andy Dalton, Chicago Bears
Andy Dalton started his career looking like he might be the next great 2nd round steal, but boy... That came crashing down huh?
Despite that, Andy has carved out a solid niche in the league as an affordable backup and patchwork QB. Hell, I could see a guy like Andy winning if they surrounded him with a system and pieces to do so. Unfortunately for the Red Rocket, I don't see that happening. His major weapons in Chicago are lengthy stretch WRs and his arm is about as suited for a vertical run offense as I am to salsa dancing.
That said, his weapons aren't entirely one-dimensional, namely the steady running game and quickness of his little WRs out of the slot. If Chicago decided to sit Justin Fields for a year, Andy would still be serviceable in this environment, but certainly not good enough to drive them to a playoff berth. That said, Fields is absolutely going to get the nod from day one, so Andy can take the reigns as the worhty mentor, showing his young signal caller how to use that speed in the best way possible.
#36 - Jordan Love, Green Bay Packers
With the league blowing up with young quarterbacks right now, especially seeing them getting tossed right into the thick of things, Jordan Love could see playing time sooner rather than later. As of today, there's been no real noise out of Green Bay around a potential Aaron Rodgers trade, but I could see that changing once that coaching staff actually gets in the swing of things.
That leaves us with Jordan Love, taken with a high round pick, there's obviously something here and I'll be the first to tell you he's more than a "scrambling" quarterback. Jordan Love arguably has the best arm strength amongst all these 1st and 2nd year guys. His accuracy and experience need some polish, but in the right hands, Jordan Love would not only be much higher on this list (as we'll see over the next week), but could potentially blossom into a new star in the Red Zone. Keep your eyeballs on Love if coach Fiddy decides to move on from him or start him year 1.
See you tomorrow, homies!
*Note to editor: Do you think I can pull off "homies"? Am I too late on that train? What do you think. Please remove the line if you think it doesn't fit. Thanks.