2024 Free agency and draft thread

[Darrell Green Fan]

I agree with you, Hurts is a great QB, I’m not sure why people still act like he isn’t, he’s made the playoffs all 4 seasons as a starter with 2 Super Bowl appearances and 1 Super Bowl win. Yeah he’s had good talent around him h bute’s a very good player.

You should have stopped at "very good player". Because that's exactly what he is, surrounded by a near perfect situation which he has enjoyed his entire career. Best OL in the league can not be undersold. People forget how down the fans get on Hurts, and it's not just Philly Fan being Philly Fan. For long stretches he is not great despite his surroudings.

If he played in Jacksonville nobody would be calling him great IMO.

 

[Darrell Green Fan]

The Hurts/Aikman comp is fair, I think both guys are underrated. Winning is the name of the game. Brady can't be the GOAT because of 7 SB wins and Montana couldn't have formally been the GOAT because he was 4-0 in the Super Bowl if winning weren't the main measuring stick. I can make the argument that Mahomes is "better" than Brady and Marino was "better" than Montana, but Hardware tells the tale. I think Aiknan is extremely underrated, because he was willing to sacrifice big numbers to run it down people's throats and win games. There were many great offensive coaches like Bill Walsh and Andy Reid who thought Aikman would have been incredibly prolific in the West Coast scheme

I just don't see Troy Aikman as underrated. He won't show up on any all time lists because they simply didn't throw enough for him to accumulate the necessary stats. But I think most fans recognize that he was one of the most accurate QBs of all time and was a first ballot Hall of Famer. What more do you want?

 

[fightinfunbags]

You should have stopped at "very good player". Because that's exactly what he is, surrounded by a near perfect situation which he has enjoyed his entire career. Best OL in the league can not be undersold. People forget how down the fans get on Hurts, and it's not just Philly Fan being Philly Fan. For long stretches he is not great despite his surroudings.

If he played in Jacksonville nobody would be calling him great IMO.

He’d be the best QB Jacksonville has had since Mark Brunnel. Hurts would be the starter on likely 25 or 26 NFL teams.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

I don’t know what your post means haha. You seemed to laugh at me asking a poster if Hurts is a great QB making me think you find that supposition silly. Then you’re invoking Aikman who is in the Hall of Fame. I’m lost and I have no idea what your point is. Help me out.

Is Hurts a great QB?