[Cobra Mgr]

So I decided to do a side by side comparison of 2003's starters to 2023's. It's not a perfect way of comparing the entire group of QB's, but it was a way to give me some perspective. It does look like the difference in quality is not as large as I at 1st believed. I think 2003 had a stronger top & bottom. But 2023 has a better middle. It is just that it is a rather large middle. I would put only Mahomes among 2003's best (Manning, Brady, Favre). '23 has a better quantity of "B+" (Burrow, Herbert, Allen, Prescott, Jackson, Tua, Goff, Hurts, Lawrence, ) > (Green, McNabb, McNair, Hasselbeck, Culpepper, Johnson, Brooks). I still feel today's bottom shows there is a problem identifying &/or training QB's.

P.Manning          G.Minshew
T.Green            P.Mahomes
M.Hasselbeck       G.Smith
B.Johnson          B.Mayfield
T.Brady            M.Jones
J.Kitna            J.Burrow
A.Brooks           D.Carr
T.Maddox           K.Pickett
B.Favre            J.Love
Q.Carter           D.Prescott
D.McNabb           J.Hurts
J.Harrington       J.Goff
B.Bledsoe          J.Allen
M.Bulger           M.Stafford
J.Delhomme         B.Young
D.Culpepper        K.Cousins
S.McNair           R.Tanneyhill
K.Collins          D.Jones
B.Leftwich         T.Lawrence
J.Garcia           B.Purdy
J.Blake            A.Murray
P.Ramsey           S.Howell
J.Fieldler         T.Tagovailoa
D.Brees            J.Herbert
C.Pennington       G.Wilson
K.Boller           L.Jackson
K.Holcomb/T.Couch  D.Watson
R.Mirer            J.Garoppolo
D.Johnson          D.Ridder
K.Stewart          J.Fields
J.Plummer          R.Wilson
                   CJ Stroud