Sometimes, we plateau, hit a wall, scrape our heads on the ceiling of what is possible in our current stations. And I’m speaking from the experience of a guy who is currently in the midst of a brutal 29-year rut. A change of scenery often unveils the keys to unlock your potential.
A few NFL quarterbacks need shake-ups, relocations,—to be shocked out of their comfort zone. Pushed, challenged, re-committed to their professions. Scared Straight.
The NFL, a league where, if you get injured at work, you’ll probably get fired—no country for woulda, could, shoulda QBs.
7 Quarterbacks, in particular, need new area codes next season, or they will never achieve the legacies they are talented enough to create.
Let’s start with a shout out to Maui.
Honorable mention: Tua Tagovailoa
Tua Tagovailoa should’ve been the GOAT.
His 2018 season at Alabama was one of the best QB seasons ever—Drew Brees DNA-spliced.
Teams Ben Kenobi’d themselves in hopes of reviving with Tua as their franchise QB.
Frequent visits to the ER robbed Tua of any athleticism—rendering him a small guy with an even smaller arm—whose kryptonite is a cold front.
A change of scenery wouldn’t help Tua.
My man can only be fixed with HGH and a turtle neck sweater.
Okay, so here’s the real list. Let’s start in Jacksonville:
1. Trevor Lawrence
Week 5, Monday Night Football, 31-28 victory over the reigning AFC Champion Kansas City Chiefs.
275 total yards, 3 touchdowns—including the game-winning touchdown run after marching the offense down the field.
The Trevor Lawrence MVP season, finally crystallized.
New head coach, the OC for the 2024 Tampa Buccaneers and their 4th-ranked offense, had gotten through to Trevor, fixed his shortcomings, instilled confidence in the 5th-year senior—Trevor playing with a new urgency and pride.
Nope.
The Jaguars are now 5-4—losing 3 of their next 4 games after Trevor’s herculean efforts on MNF.
Basically, a 4-game losing streak considering they needed overtime to beat a Las Vegas Raiders team that walks into the locker room every Sunday, ready to get their asses beat. Shout out Geno Smith. I totally understand why that guy broke your jaw.
Where he should go next: Indianapolis Colts
Trevor Lawrence is Daniel Jones’s final form.
If this season is the skeleton, the blueprint of how Shane Steichen’s offense looks when they have a QB1 slightly better than Anthony Richardson, the worst QB in the NFL—then how many titles could they win with anyone better than Daniel Jones.
Trevor Lawrence in Indy’s offense is a dynasty.
2. Kyler Murray
The Arizona Cardinals and Kyler Murray should’ve divorced in 2022 before Kyler signed a $230.5 millon contract extension requiring Murray to complete mandatory film watching hours.
If you need your franchise QB to sign, in writing, a pledge to try at his job, you do not have a franchise QB.
Fast forward to the Cardinals Week 5 loss to the winless Tennessee Titans (still their only win of the season), Kyler taking a snap off his face for a fumble. (Week 5 was a huge week for me, apparently).
Kyler Murray takes a snap to the FACE 😭
Bounces off his helmet and turns into a fumble… pure chaos! 💀 #AZCardinals #NFL pic.twitter.com/ghLPPmBwkO— Aggregate Sports (@AggregateSports) October 5, 2025
Kyler may be the most gifted athlete on this list, sitting comfy, one of the highest paid athletes on the planet, one playoff game in 7 years, 137 passing yards, 2 interceptions, lost, doesn’t matter.
He’s put up 300+ passing yards in only 15 of his 87 career games. Brock Purdy was the last pick of the 2022 NFL Draft, 3 years after Kyler, 11 games of 300+ passing yards already.
Only 3 of those 300+ passing games came after Thanksgiving, Kyler usually in a cast or sling, Fox drone shot of him on the sidelines, frowning, lost puppy-style, in the biggest heated coat the lord allowed man to create.
I want to meet the Kyler Murray who cares about the outcomes of the games. The one who maximizes all medical resources to help decrease the frequency in which his backup is on the field, often winning some games Kyler may not have been able to, while we all pretend 2021 Colt McCoy or Jacoby Brissett, right now, aren’t playing better than Kyler would have.
Where he should go next: Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh is one of the few NFL organizations where winning is mandatory, annually.
No gap years or lost seasons.
As long as Mike Tomlin is on the sidelines, Pittsburgh competes for championships, or at the very least, competes for playoff berths—an accomplishment escaping Kyler almost a whole ass decade into his career.
I want Kyler in an environment where he is held accountable for his contributions (or lack thereof).
3. Cam Ward
Before we do the “is Cam Ward the next Baker Mayfield or Sam Darnold” 4 years from now—let’s just trade him to one of the QB tinkerers, today—and save the ego-destroying training camp competition with Will Levis next year—the wasted seasons in Tennessee, re-committing to new GMs and coaches, on the opposite pole of success.
The 2025 Tennessee Titans are tryptophan.
This team is going nowhere.
No idea if Cam Ward can succeed in the NFL but I do know the longer he stays in Tennessee, the less likely he is to make the Hall of Fame.
Where he should go next: Los Angeles Rams
Matthew Stafford won’t be here forever.
Sean McVay destroyed and rebuilt Jared Goff, Matthew Stafford and Baker Mayfield.
Morpheus teaching the One (former first overall draft picks), how to escape the Matrix.
Cam Ward is very much entrenched in the Matrix, statistically, more so than any other starting QB.
Ward is the bottom-ranked QB in almost everything.
Objectively the worst quarterback in the NFL.
Cam Ward ranks 12th in intended air yards—more than Jordan Love and Josh Allen.
Matthew Stafford ranks first.
Ward already wants to play McVay’s style.
He wants to throw the ball over them mountains.
4. Brock Purdy
Brock Purdy signed a 5-year $265 million contract before the season. He’s played twice.
Mac Jones and Brock Purdy are in the midst of a way lower-stakes Drew Bledsoe/Tom Brady situation—Purdy losing his job to injury—stolen by Mac Jones 5-3 this season, 5 games with 2+ touchdown passes—navigating a Niners offense full of practice squaders—all remaining starters limping like fresh road kill—Mac Jones included.
I like Brock Purdy.
Healthy, he can bring a team to a Super Bowl. Almost twice—elbow explosion away.
Where he should play next: Minnesota Vikings
JJ McCarthy for Brock Purdy, who says no?
Kyle Shanahan has a new project—the Trey Lance experiment that never was.
Minnesota gets a Super Bowl caliber QB who could easily have 2024 Sam Darnold seasons year after year, with Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison. Yooper Bengals.
5. Joe Flacco
Earlier this season, I was annoyed at the ironic love fest for Joe Flacco, a QB holding Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders hostage in a cage locked by Flacco’s ego and hate for his loved ones. Turns out, Joe wasn’t stifling the next generation. The next generation sucks. Meanwhile, Joe Flacco went to Cincinnati and made Jake Browning look like Jake From State Farm.
Where he should play next: Las Vegas Raiders
Geno Smith lacks the undeserved confidence Joe Flacco uses to kip-up out of bed in the AM.
With Brock Browers, Ashton Jeanty and the offseason to improve the offensive line—give Joe Flacco at least, like 6 starts for the Raiders, specifically against the Chargers, Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs for some divisional shootouts.
In Week 5, as we are all learning today is the most important week of the season, Indianapolis trapped the Raiders in a torture chamber. 40-6 napalm, Geno Smith threw 2 picks, not even a bad game.
Just boring.
Motionless.
They started the game with a 16-play, 10-minute drive, and a field goal.
Joe Flacco would’ve made the game watchable. I’d love for the Raiders to be watchable again, even if it shortens the life expectancy of the players forced to inhale Flacco’s Marlboro smoke on the team plane.
6. Russell Wilson
Brian Daboll slipped-pink. Jaxson Dart’s ears ringing. The Mike Kafka/Jameis Winston era begins—Russell Wilson skipped on the depth chart, me, unable to forget him intentionally throwing the ball out of bounds on 4th down with goal to go.
Where he should play next: Home
It’s over, Russ. Hang with your family. They like you.
7. Deshaun Watson
I don’t believe we are all mentally prepared for the return of Deshaun Watson in 2026. His achilles will be healed and the Browns rookies have kept his seat clean, vacuumed up his room too. Fresh sheets on the bed and all. Shedeur spends every practice sweeping up Deshaun’s parking space.
I’m not upset about his return. He did his crime but he served his time. All good. We’re square.
I more so fear the possibility he may be good again. I’d hate for the pred to resurrect.
Where he should play next: Away
Please.
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