During the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary Baltimore BulliesTrent Dilfer, a former Ravens Super Bowl QB said that several rule changes have led to modern NFL QB play “super easy”It is unimpressive.
Dilfer specifically mentioned Aaron Rodgers, and Tom Brady.
“It’s super easy when you don’t get hit as a quarterback and when you can’t re-route receivers and when you can’t hit guys across the middle,” Dilfer said. “I love Tom Brady. I love Aaron Rodgers. I love these guys. It’s not impressive.”
Trent Dilfer was not impressed by Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady. pic.twitter.com/oVoNVtF4AT
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) February 6, 2023
Dilfer spent Monday being criticized on Twitter for his terrible QB play throughout his entire career. It was 2000 that Dilfer led the Ravens’ underwhelming offense to victory with the NFL’s most formidable defense.
However, it’s important to note Dilfer wasn’t saying that he was a better QB than Brady or Rodgers. He was merely stating that the time he was playing in was more difficult.
Are his beliefs correct? Of course, he’s right! There’s not a doubt in the world that he’s right!
NFL is infinitely easier than other games and far more enjoyable. “offense-friendly”It is more exciting to play now than in 2000, when it first became popular. “Bullies of Baltimore”The field was his playground. Dan Marino, if he was alive today, would have thrown for over eleventy-thousand yards each year.
It is important to remember that it can be done in context. “When Dilfer and the Baltimore Ravens won a Super Bowl in 2000, Peyton Manning led the NFL in passing yards with 4,413,” Bleacher Report’s Joseph Zucker writes. “He was one of three passers to eclipse 4,000 yards through the air.
“Five years later, it was the same story. Tom Brady (4,110) and Trent Green (4,014) were the only 4,000-yard passers. By 2010, however, five quarterbacks hit that threshold, with Manning and Philip Rivers both going for 4,700-plus yards. The number swelled to 12 by 2020.”
So, Dilfer isn’t wrong with what he said about the rule changes and how they’ve made things easier for offenses and their quarterbacks. Dilfer is mistaken to use Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady as examples for people who have won during the NFL’s soft age. Remember, the NFL didn’t really start cracking down on hits on the QB and the re-routing of receivers until about 2010 or 2011, not in the strict way those rules are reinforced today.
Between 2001 and 2011, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady won four Super Bowls. This means they were both successful in the run-heavy and defense-focused NFL of pre-modern times.
Dilfer would like to show real players who have excelled at the game. “soft age,”He would have been better off including Joe Burrow and Matt Stafford as well, Josh Allen included, too.
Mahomes, Burrow and I would both be great players in any era. They were not successful in the football era before them.
Dilfer is an accomplished high school football coach. Dilfer was right about his statements. He was just wrong about who he threw under the bus.
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