Season in Review - QBs

Hey, I'll be taking a look at how the players finished vs. how I thought they'd do this year. I'll focus on the ones I got right! But you can see how the guys finished in all the information on the left side of the blog.

Let's start with quarterbacks. Injuries played a big role in determining the final rankings here.

When Tom Brady got hurt early, Drew Brees was my number one guy. And that's how he finished. He ran an offense with a lot of weapons, he's very accurate (like Joe Montana and Steve Young), and he was determined this year to show the league that he is The Man.

But I didn't see Phillip Rivers finishing number two, because of the injury concerns we all had about him. Matt Cassel was also a big surprise, of course, the way he filled in for Brady.

And who knew that Kurt Warner would step in for a struggling Matt Leinart and become an MVP candidate? I was worried all season about him getting hurt, but Kurt is a great pro, two-time MVP and Super Bowl Winner.

I did see Jay Cutler and Aaron Rodgers having very strong years, and they did. I thought Aaron would finish higher than Brett Favre, and he did. On the field, it was not Aaron's fault that the Packers forget how to play defense for much of the year.

It's fantastic to see all this young talent at the QB position in the NFL today. And the rivalry between Rivers and Cutler will be fun to watch for years.

Big Ben and Romo were both disappointments, for different reasons. I hope Ben can get completely healthy again some day, and it's going to be a long off-season for Romo and the Cowboys, with the way they just collapsed. I will think hard about where to place them next year, that's for sure.