Don’t you love how fun the NFL has been the last couple of years? Haven’t the wire-to-wire playoff games been thrilling? Are you enamored by an ever-increasing list of talented, young quarterbacks yet to enter their primes?
Well, guess what? Trent Dilfer isn’t a fan.
You know Dilfer — the former quarterback who, despite playing 14 years in the league, is perhaps most remembered for being dumped by the Baltimore Ravens after ostensibly leading the team to a Super Bowl in 2000.
Dilfer most recently leveraged mediocrity into success when he was hired as the head coach at UAB despite his only coaching experience being four years at the high school level with Nashville’s Lipscomb Academy.
But a notoriously mediocre playing career hasn’t stopped Dilfer from taking shots at the modern game, which he said is unimpressive during an interview for the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Bullies of Baltimore.
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“The modern-day game does not impress me,” Dilfer said. “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. I love Tom Brady, I love Aaron Rodgers, I love these guys. It’s not impressive. Impressive is what (the Ravens) did.”
Naturally, NFL fans weren’t particularly pleased with Dilfer, who threw more career interceptions than touchdowns, categorizing the modern quarterback position as “super easy” and diminishing the accomplishments of current players.