Location. Location. Location.
Real estate’s most enduring axiom is easily transferable to quarterbacks, as well. The right environment can often times make or break a quarterback, and a lot goes in to that. Coaching, offensive line, consistency in messaging, weapons around him… all of these elements factor in when discussing a quarterback’s “environment.” And all are significant.
Think of the parade of signal callers who destructed at “the place where quarterbacks go to die” in Cleveland in their, let’s say, less-than-competent decades. It’s just mathematically improbable that each and every one of those young quarterbacks was a steaming pile of Boller, as opposed to embracing the concept that general organizational dysfunction played a large role in their undoing.