The quarterback honorability index
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
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Summary
Our own Derrik Klassen loves talking about honorable and dishonorable play across the NFL. Perhaps you've found yourself sitting there saying to your device, 'Hey Derrik, what exactly does it mean to be honorable?' Well, today is your lucky day. Using the quarterback position as a vehicle, Derrik walks through his Honorability Index with Dave Helman on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:35.6 | Welcome to The Athletic Football Show. I'm Dave Hellman. One more episode for y'all that we recorded while Robert was out on vacation. And I guess you could say I'm honored to be part of it. Because today we're going to be breaking down Derek Klasson's honorability index. If you listen to the show at all, you're probably familiar with the concept of honorable |
| 0:55.6 | quarterback play. Quarterbacks who are fearless, quarterbacks who stand in the pocket, |
| 1:00.7 | they're not afraid of any throws, they're not afraid of any situation. We're going to go through |
| 1:06.1 | Derek's index five to one, the most honorable quarterbacks in the league, all the way down to the |
| 1:12.9 | least honorable quarterbacks in the league. |
| 1:15.5 | List is not fully complete. |
| 1:17.5 | We're leaving a few off of here. |
| 1:19.2 | Rookies, sorry, you're going to have to wait your turn. |
| 1:22.0 | Cam Ward will deal with you at another time. |
| 1:24.3 | We're not going to try to evaluate college tape here. |
| 1:27.0 | Also, a couple other guys |
| 1:28.4 | that don't quite feel worth evaluating. J.J. McCarthy obviously only has two preseason quarters of |
| 1:34.6 | football to go on. So sorry, Vikings fans. No J.J. McCarthy here today. Russell Wilson, |
| 1:39.7 | another one that we're leaving off. The goal here was to evaluate franchise quarterbacks, guys who have |
| 1:45.8 | a defined future with their organization, less so one-off guys and things like that. So we're |
| 1:53.2 | going to define what it is to be an honorable quarterback, a topic I've wanted to talk to Derek |
| 1:58.5 | about for a long time. So I'm excited to put it all on the record. |
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