The Quar­ter­back Whis­perer

For the past thir­teen years, I have been build­ing up my knowl­edge about what it takes to be an Elite Quar­ter­back. I watch every sec­ond of every pro­fes­sional foot­ball game so you don’t have to, mak­ing me your per­sonal Quar­ter­back Whis­perer.

Tom Brady and the Un­de­feated Pa­tri­ots

In a league where the Pa­tri­ots have been on top for over a decade, foot­ball fans every­where beg for a new team to de­throne the Pa­triot Dy­nasty. The Buf­falo Bills came into this week with a chip on their shoul­ders, at­tempt­ing to knock the Pa­tri­ots down a peg. Both teams ar­rived in Or­chard Park, New York with de­fense on the mind, and with­out a loss on the sea­son.

The game be­tween Tom Brady’s Pa­tri­ots and Josh Al­len’s Bills was a slow, de­fen­sive-ori­ented game. When two of the best de­fenses are matched up, the Quar­ter­back’s job is to con­trol the clock and avoid turnovers, which Josh Allen strug­gled with. Allen had three in­ter­cep­tions, and when the game was on the line, he was knocked out with a con­cus­sion. The Pa­tri­ots squeaked out a win, stay­ing un­de­feated and on top of the AFC.

Min­shew Ma­nia is Run­ning Wild

It is of­fi­cial, I think, that Gard­ner Min­shew is a le­git Start­ing Quar­ter­back in the NFL. The Jaguars are go­ing to have a de­ci­sion to make fol­low­ing the mas­sive con­tract that they gave Nick Foles in the off­sea­son, $88 Mil­lion over the next four years. Min­shew is now 2-1 as the Start­ing Quar­ter­back, with his one loss on a failed Two-Point-Con­ver­sion fol­low­ing a clutch drive by Min­shew and the Jaguars in the fi­nal sec­onds of the game. If Min­shew can con­tinue to win, he will force the hand of Coach Marone and have to bench their “$88 Mil­lion Dol­lar Man.”

Min­shew went 19 for 33 for 213 yards and two touch­downs, along with a late game drive to set up Josh Lambo for the Game Win­ning Field Goal. I am a big be­liever in the Jack­sonville De­fense, mak­ing for Min­shew to pos­sess a great op­por­tu­nity to suc­ceed if he can limit turnovers and dom­i­nate the play clock. With Nick Foles out with his bro­ken col­lar­bone, don’t be sur­prised when Gard­ner Min­shew be­comes a Dark Horse in win­ning the Of­fen­sive Rookie of the Year.

Min­shew went 19 for 33 for 213 yards and two touch­downs, along with a late-game drive to set up Josh Lambo for the Game-Win­ning Field Goal. I am a big be­liever in the Jack­sonville De­fense al­low­ing Min­shew to pos­sess a great op­por­tu­nity to suc­ceed if he can limit turnovers and dom­i­nate the play clock. With Nick Foles out with his bro­ken col­lar­bone, don’t be sur­prised when Gard­ner Min­shew be­comes a Dark Horse in win­ning the Of­fen­sive Rookie of the Year.

MVP through Week 4 is…

Patrick Ma­homes re­ally showed that he is ready to chal­lenge for the Su­per Bowl against the De­troit Li­ons. Al­though Ma­homes did not throw for a touch­down tonight, he man­aged the game with­out any in­ter­cep­tions and racked up 340 to­tal yards. Ma­homes and the Chiefs are un­de­feated with a 4-0 record. In an ex­cit­ing late Fourth Quar­ter Come­back, Ma­homes led his team to a win against the now 2-1-1 De­troit Li­ons. Ma­homes showed poise in his first game in a dome, but ac­cord­ing to Patrick Ma­homes on Chiefs.com, “It’s still not where I want to be.” Patrick Ma­homes is not sat­is­fied with a turnover-free game, rather he wants to im­prove. Ma­homes is com­ing off of an MVP sea­son in his first sea­son as a starter, but com­ing up one play short of a Su­per Bowl has Ma­homes and the Chiefs play­ing at a level that only the Pa­tri­ots can com­pete with.