1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Are the Best 4 Qbs in the NFL in 2025 Set in Stone?: August 11th, 12:25pm

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

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at Hibner against Missouri State against Missouri State so you'll be able to do that but quickly if we could there's a how many active quarterbacks have won a Super Bowl oh that's a tough one and then how many as the starter not just on the team right not just on the team but as a starter How many can you name? I got Stafford, Hurds, Mahomes, probably do more than that. Right.

So the ones who've won, right? Mm-hmm. Who won. Rogers has won one one. That 2000, 10. Right? Flack. Oh.

Russell Wilson. Still active, that's right. Russell Wilson. He's the de facto starter. That's right. On the depth chart. Russell Wilson. Jared Goff played in the, right?

He played in it, but didn't win it. Jimmy Garapolo didn't, right? He played anybody that started. Is he still active? He's still active. I don't even know. What teams are you on? I saw that this weekend.

I'll have to double check. Yeah. Mahomes with three, Matt Stafford with one. Joe Burrell has appeared, started in one. Jalen Hertz has won. Brock Purdy has appeared, right? So in that space, that folks who have won a Super Bowl,

and then folks who led their team to a conference championship. Led their quarterback to a conference championship. So some of the social media discussion, and I get fatigued sometimes by the lame conversation, folks are saying, well, that somebody said, I'll let you seek and destroy whoever it was, saying that the quote is, the top four quarterbacks in the NFL are any mix of Josh Allen,

Burrell, Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes. He goes on to say, I still think there's 10 to 12 other really good quarterbacks in the league right now, but the top four, the Mount Rushmore of active quarterbacks in their mind at any point, depending on no matter really where you put them on the Mount Rushmore, right, some can be higher one year or not, Alan Burrell, Jackson, Mahomes. Now, Bach, do you think that is a statement of truth that those four are off, are always the top four in whatever location and that everybody else is a tier below. I wouldn't say that they're always that case.

The NFL obviously week to week type of deal, notable that among those four, only Mahomes has won the Super Bowl. Say that louder for the people in the back. Yeah. Say that louder for the people in the back. Only, only Mahomes has won the Super Bowl and he's done it several times.

So I think that's just, I mean, I think if you, I think if we do the tier system, that might be your top ranking. But again, that can change from week to week year to year. Aaron Rogers would have undoubt. You would have been scolded if you didn't include Aaron Rogers a couple years ago.

Now, you know, you can put them further down your list. So it's kind of interesting. I wouldn't say that that's forever and for always the list and that it can't change. If you want to start the season with those is your top four, I'd be fine with it. What quarterbacks are most like based on knowledge and experience, right? Things we know, not protections, things we know. What quarterbacks have figured out how to win a Super Bowl? It's a short list.

And if you tell me that winning a Super Bowl or at least appearing in the Super Bowl, winning your conference, because you can't win the Super Bowl if you don't win the conference title, right? So how many quarterbacks started and won on that list, started and won the conference title? Like those Super Bowl appearances is a coordination that you have had as a quarterback. you have done the thing that sits at the top of your pyramid for accomplishments for that year, right? I'm not sure whether winning a Super Bowl MVP is a greater accomplishment. Winning a season MVP is a greater accomplished in leading your team to the Super Bowl. Bach, what say you?

That could be, I mean, that's a difficult question. That's why we asked the difficult question. I'm just saying, I mean, there's, you know, I'm not going to argue. We've seen over the years. Trent Dillfer wasn't probably ever one of the top quarterbacks in the league, but he led his team to a Super Bowl. We've seen, you know, guys be able to Nick Foles at a heck of a run. Was he one of the top quarterbacks in the league, you know, in the years surrounding it, not, no.

So, you know, I think that's a difficult question. I think an MVP's hard to kind of get through that type of argument, right? Like, just, hey, there's a team around him. Now, the team around he can certainly help. That's what interests me about Joe Burrow being cut in that list because he neither has won an MVP or won a Super Bowl. And those other four of it, at least kind of have that on their, you know, with what they've accomplished.

So I think, I mean, to me, which one would you? So two awards sitting on a table. One is you winning the conference title and playing this leading your team to Super Bowl. The other is the MVP, NFL season MVP, which is your choice? I would say the MVP, which is the, that's the eye and team. Well, I've heard it before because that's the argument, too, is like, you know, guys, would you rather win a Super Bowl as maybe a role player or win an MVP?

I tell you, but you better win an MVP, at least for the future of your family's sake and the contract and the exposure and all that. Yeah, but if you're reading your team to a Super Bowl, if you win the conference championship, you're going to get your money. You're going to get your money. Like, that's, I get it. Again, you're not wrong, but. I'll say that.

You're not wrong. But I'll listen to the text line in that if you were offered the opportunity to, that in your accomplishment, through your leadership and your effort, your production, you lead your team, you win the conference championship and get an opportunity to play in the Super Bowl. Or you can fail to get your team to the Super Bowl. but you are deemed the best player in the league. That choosing that, and Texan, you could tell me which one you would choose. It's a whole different selection to win the Super Bowl versus the league MVP.

And I still think team, team mission, team goal above individual. That all boats in the water, like there's that phrase. That's nice to say, but there's a lot of contract holdouts I've noticed lately that this seems to be more individual focus than the team. I don't think that's good business either. You're not of your word. You can't be led by somebody that thinks more about themselves than the team. I'm never going to be led by somebody who thinks about themselves more than they think the team. Never.

There's nobody that walks in the ticket who feels like it's always like it's all. about them more than it is about the ticket or the listeners. Like, what about the fans? If you're holding out, what are you doing to the fans? The fans you're supposed to love so much. Because the fans create your value. And if you don't show up, guess what? They move on.

Fans move on. But if you're Micah Parsons and you hear your name from your owner, like it also is like who you're working for, people you're working for. You know, it's nice just to be lower to the fans. But if you're frustrated with ownership and your head coach doesn't treat you well, are, you know, certain things going on that way. What are you doing everything you can do to help this team be the best team that it can be by sitting on your couch, by not showing up, by being selfish?

Because you not showing up is selfish. You deciding, you know what, I need to stay away from me. No, that's a selfish act. That is not leadership. That is selfish. And it's very principal in its definition. It's selfish. I'm not saying I don't understand.

it, but I also could say out loud, if this is a team sport, in tennis, you hold out, guess what? You're only affecting you. You're only affecting you. Stay on the couch. It's all right. It's okay. In a team sport? No. No. The leadership says you have to be there for the people next to you. You have to be there for the fans. And you can't tell me you love the fans if you say, sorry fans, I'm not showing up for work, especially when I have an agreement in place. He signed agreement. There is a contract that exists. Yeah, there's an option to not show up.

You're choosing not to show up. Parsons isn't helping Dallas be better right now. But also neither is Jerry Jones. But Jerry Jones has a contract. He has an agreement. And I think the loser man is constantly wrong. But, okay. they had this discussion that all four quarterbacks,

these are the four quarterbacks. And if you tell me that Jalen Hertz isn't in your conversation, a young man that in what four years has led his team to two Super Bowls and one Super Bowl title. Well, I'll put those up against the MVP. I'll put those up against the last two MVPs. At the end of the year, who was happier? Jalen Hertz or Josh Allen?

Who accomplished their goals that year? Depends? I don't think there's a depends. It's about that ring. I think it's about the ring. I'll take your text line. Ring or MVP? And you're not wrong.

Either way. So we'll keep that in play. More one-on-one. We'll close. I get all set up for Bach and the Blackshirt. Download our app by searching 93.7, the ticket in your app store. You're listening.

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