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The NBA season is finally over. Wish a team won the championship but unfortunately, there was that massive explosion at Game 5 and the NBA shut the whole thing down and the Celtics 1000% did not win.
Anyway, it’s time for the NFL and for me, my Sunday viewing experience is dependent on the quarterback matchups. Not QBs are capable of getting my attention, like, I’m not getting hyped about a Derek Carr game.
Here are the 7 NFL quarterbacks I’m most excited to watch in 2024:
1. Daniel Jones
Inflation hasn’t hit lotto tickets yet. They are not worth more money the longer you wait before scratching them. The Giants are scratching one space a year hoping the final one will reveal the million-dollar prize. We’re entering the 6th year of Daniel Jones, perhaps the year he finally becomes worth the 6th pick in the draft and the $160 million contract.
Malik Nabors. Darius Slayton. Wan’Dale Robinson. Jalin Hyatt. DJ might have a little season ahead of himself.
Or he may not even be 1000% healed from last season and he once again crumbles beneath a defensive lineman, leading the Giants to a Top 3 pick next season and an opportunity to draft Deion Sanders’s bratty baby boy. Yay.
2. Bryce Young
Newborns do not choose which parents they leave the hospital with. Yet we judge the babies who grow up to be sacked on their neck vertebrae every third play as if it’s their fault.
Let’s give Bryce Young another shot.
He was a 15-year-old hired at his first real paying job outside of Mom’s bakery over the summers but the restaurant was a new Applebee’s franchise that just popped up in town and although the owner had never eaten in an Applebee’s before, he demanded everyone know how much he knew about Applebee’s.
Bryce has a new head, Dave Canales, who told the world he was an alcoholic, sex weirdo for no reason at all and a new offensive coordinator who, sure, he’s never been an offensive coordinator before but his father used to be an NFL GM so you know he’s made to run an NFL offense. Nepotism has never failed.
Oh no.
Either way, Bryce is going to be must-see TV this season.
3. Kyler Murray
Back-to-back QBs whose organizations did not understand that the opposite of “no risk, no reward” is not “risk, reward”, Kyler Murray is a small injury-prone quarterback who hasn’t quite been given the full support of the Cardinals front office.
It was reasonable to expect some rust after 11 months away from the game.
Kyler Murray instead immediately started adding to his highlight reel.
🎥🎬📽️— Kyler Burd (@AZCard_BurdsEye) November 13, 2023
Kyler Murray is entering 2024 healthy and when he’s at his best, he is truly one of the most dynamic players in the league. He’s still capable of scooting around the pocket, dodging diving D-Linemen and chucking the pill down the field. As long as he stays untouched, he will be one of the most electric players.
4. Zach Wilson
Molded under the narcissistic learning tree of a drug addict, Zach Wilson gets a fresh start in Denver away from Aaron Rodgers.
Look at the way Jordan Love responded to 3 years under Aaron Rodgers’s thumb by leading the Packers to the second round of the playoffs last year. Perhaps Zach Wilson can also succeed out of spite.
Plus, it would be cool to see Zach turn into the next Drew Brees under Sean Payton. It has to be him because nothing is exciting about Bo fucking Nix.
5. Anthony Richardson
Anthony Richardson may lowkey be a superstar trapped within the prison of the Indianapolis Colts run by an owner who starts every morning deciding whether or not to smoke crack. This team was built on 1-year contracts given to elderly, washed quarterbacks like Matt Ryan and Philip Rivers or even Carson Wentz.
Richardson is the first young QB to lead the Colts since Andrew Luck chose his brain over getting sacked a million times a year but AR may be the next Cam Newton. Let’s all get excited about Richardson before he does turn into Cam Newton and annoys the shit out of us.
6. Josh Allen
Alright now, Josh. When are you going to have that season? Josh Allen has finished in the Top 5 of MVP voting in 3 of the last 4 years. People proudly state Josh Allen is the best QB in the NFL and it’s not treated as a hot take.
So it’s time to have that definitive, special season, allowing us to all anoint him as the best. Folks are bored of Patrick Mahomes. Lamar Jackson’s postseason failures have changed the public perception. Joe Burrow loves waking up from surgery.
Let’s go, Josh. 2024 is the year.
7. Deshaun Watson
Samson lost his hair. Deshaun Watson lost his ability to manipulate local massage therapists into watching him jizz on himself.
I’m at the public hanging wearing a Watson jersey, throwing tomatoes at the gallows pole like “WHOS MANS IS THIS?”, champagne popped, my cup runneth over. Tuning into every Cleveland Browns game to watch this weirdo fail or tear an ACL or the earth split beneath his feet, sucking Deshaun into the flames of hell.
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