You’d be hard-pressed to find two quarterbacks who are bigger topics for debate, or lightning rods for criticism, than Brock Purdy and Tua Tagovailoa. Tagovailoa is one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league and Purdy can follow suit with an extension this offseason.
Both will share the field on Sunday in Miami in a game between two underachieving teams with their seasons on life support. I can already hear the echoes on social media of “game manager” and “system quarterback” as critics look to tear down the pair.
These are two different discussions, mind you. In my opinion, a “game manager” is about a quarterback’s style of play and how they are coached up. I wrote entering the yearabout how “game manager” is a term often weaponized against quarterbacks, but really managing a game is a skill every quarterback must have. It really only becomes …