NFC QB supporting cast rankings
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
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Summary
If the AFC is defined by the league's superstar quarterbacks, then the NFC is where the meticulously constructed offenses and elite playcallers can be found. That means the exercise of ranking the supporting casts in the NFC is not for the faint of heart. Luckily, we've got Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen at our disposal. The pair ranks the NFC's supporting casts from worst to first on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm Robert Mays. It's NFC Supporting Cast Day. We did the AFC last week, me and Derek Classen, we're digging into the NFC today. We did this exercise last |
| 0:46.2 | off season. I really enjoyed it. Wanted to bring it back. If you did not listen to the AFC show, |
| 0:50.6 | I just want to very quickly run through the methodology for this. So the way that we're talking about supporting casts and trying to build these rankings, |
| 0:58.0 | taking into account a few different factors. First one, first bucket, just kind of calling it |
| 1:02.5 | play caller slash infrastructure. Who is your offensive play caller? And just what does the ecosystem |
| 1:07.7 | for that offense look like? Is this a group that's consistently maximizing its |
| 1:12.4 | talent? That point, I think, is an important one to consider for this show specifically because |
| 1:17.8 | there are a lot of teams in the NFC, a few at least, that have really, really good personnel, |
| 1:23.2 | but a new play caller. And I think me and Derek treated that slightly different. |
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