The five distinct types of quarterbacks that win Super Bowls
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🗓️ 21 December 2022
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Summary
The surest path to a Lombardi Trophy is to have a superstar quarterback, but it isn't the only way to win a Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes doesn't hoist that thing every year. Fran Duffy joins Robert Mays to examine the distinct types of quarterbacks who win Super Bowls on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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3:07 The superstars
11:15 The studs on rookie deals
27:41 The rookie-deal QBs with great teams around them
40:28 The very good veteran QBs with great teams around them
51:48 The Kirk Cousins Conundrum
54:43 The Kyle Shanahan Exception
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.3 | Joining me today, Eagles on air talent hosted the Eagle Eye |
| 0:23.6 | in the Sky podcast, host of the Journey to the Draft podcast, someone's work, especially if you were |
| 0:28.8 | an Eagles fan that you should certainly be checking out. Fran Duffy, Fran, Frank, thank you very much for |
| 0:33.2 | joining me, my friend. Yeah, absolutely, man. I really appreciate it. This is going to be a fun conversation, obviously extremely topical, not just this year, but every year, everybody always wants to talk about quarterbacks. So excited for you having me on. So what we're going to do today is we're going to talk about the types of quarterbacks who can win a Super Bowl. And we're going to do it kind of looking backwards and forwards. The types of quarterbacks who've won Super Bowls in the past and how those archetypes |
| 0:58.7 | apply to some of the teams that we're looking at as contenders or playoff teams this season. |
| 1:04.9 | And I wanted to have you on in particular because I think that Jalen Hertz part of this conversation |
| 1:09.0 | is instructive. It's informative. I think that there are some part of this conversation is instructive. It's informative. |
| 1:12.1 | I think that there are some debates about maybe which bucket he would fall in. |
| 1:16.1 | So we'll get to that in a little bit. But let's start with the obvious ones, right? |
| 1:21.1 | So the types of quarterbacks that can win a Super Bowl, you have the alien quarterbacks. |
| 1:26.1 | Like the best quarterbacks in the league are absolutely capable of winning Super Bowls. |
| 1:30.4 | You don't need to look very far to find examples of that. |
| 1:33.3 | Patrick Mahomes has already won a Super Bowl. |
| 1:35.9 | We have so many of these guys that have done it over the years. |
| 1:39.2 | And I think that in this group, there are really only two guys to me. |
| 1:42.6 | There's just Josh Allen and there's just |
| 1:44.4 | Patrick Mahomes. And these are guys that just by virtue of their presence, you're going to be |
| 1:50.1 | a Super Bowl contender. You know, in what was supposed to be kind of a soft reset season for the |
| 1:55.4 | chiefs after they traded literally one of the most valuable players in the NFL away, they still are number one in the |
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