Can the NFL really claim parity

[Doctor_J]

4. Yeah, it's bizarre

you have the big 6 (counting Peyton and Ben), then there is a layer of QBs who could lead a team to the SB under the right circumstances (Stafford, Cutler, maybe Schaub) and the rest seem to be journeymen (Palmer, Vick, Orton, Hasslebeck, Grossman), and the rest, who barely belong in the NFL. That leaves around 20 teams with sub-standard QBs. Like I said in the OP, the NFL likes to tout itself as the league where your team can win 2 games this year and contend next year, has reached the physical impediment to that goal - not enough good QBs. Newton seems to be the real deal - let's see which group he's in in 2014.

It's also very hard to judge coming in, IMO. Seriesly, if you had to choose, just from their college performance, among Brady, Roethlisberger, Bradford, Sanchez, and McCoy, the two with the 5 rings between them would probably be the last ones picked.