How much confidence do each of the playoff quarterbacks inspire?
It’s playoff time, finally. The AFC and NFC fields are now set and the countdown is starting for their bracket-style eliminations to see who stands alone. After 18 weeks and 17 games, each conference has sent seven teams to their own little single-elimination tournament. Quietly as kept, the league has turned over the reigns to a new generation of signal callers, which was cemented when Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys eviscerated Tom Brady’s Bucs last wild-card round and sent him into retirement.
Now, the majority of the upper echelon spots is manned by players in their late 20s, with Prescott and the Rams’ Matt Stafford being the graybeards on the NFC side and Patrick Mahomes on the AFC side. The rest of the field is a mixture of young guns and cagey veterans fighting to extend or create their legacies.
Here’s how we see the advantages, or disadvantages, at the game’s most important position for the field of 14.