![]() As improbable as Brady’s ascendance to GOAT-status seemed 20 years ago, he and Roethlisberger both fit the archetype of what an NFL quarterback should look - and play - like.Ī month and a day before Brady was drafted, Dan Marino retired as the NFL’s career leader in yards passing and passing touchdowns, a crown he passed on to Brett Favre, then Peyton Manning, then Drew Brees, then Brady. Their arrival en masse serves as a paradigm shift. Their rise has helped fuel another TV ratings surge for a league that already has an ability to capture the public’s attention in ways other sports simply cannot. They will likely spend the next decade-plus taking turns appearing in the Super Bowl, gracing the cover of “Madden” - heck, Jackson and Mahomes have already done it - and crowding the top 10 in annual jersey sales. “The AFC is the quarterback conference,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said on Monday. Or Mahomes zig-zagging like a kid running away from classmates during a game of tag.Įven Burrow, as close to a Brady clone as perhaps there is, used a pair of scrambles to key Cincinnati’s stunning rally past Mahomes and the Chiefs in the AFC championship game last week. See Jackson spin defenders into the ground. Watch Allen lower his shoulder to take on linebackers. They need to do more than fend off defenders with one arm and fling game-altering passes with the other as Roethlisberger did. Quarterbacks can no longer just stand in the pocket as Brady did and make a series of micro-decisions as chaos envelops them. While they are all being asked to win like Brady and Roethlisberger did for so long it’s the manner in which they are asked to go about it that is changing. The baton they carried so capably for so long has been passed to (or in some cases seized by) players who grew up idolizing them. The future Roethlisberger and Brady fended off to the bitter end is finally here. The proof has been broadcast into millions of homes over the last month during perhaps the most compelling playoffs in a century-plus of professional football. For all of their greatness and the gold jackets that await them in Canton, Ohio, the game has moved on. When the Steelers and the Buccaneers stress they’re not trying to find the next Roethlisberger or Brady this week at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, they’re not kidding. The position Brady and Roethlisberger helped define is changing. Maybe, but the cake looks a lot different now than it did when Brady and Roethlisberger began their respective ascensions in the early 2000s. “There’s more than one way to bake a cake!” “Ben defied the TB12 Method in favor of the ‘Throw Some Ice On It’ method his whole career, and ended up an all-time-great with 6 Pro-Bowls and 2 Super Bowls,” Brady tweeted after Roethlisberger retired on Jan. 'Master thief' convicted of Giants ring theft back in prison
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