It's the praise we heap on low-expectation quarterbacks who engineer 13-10 victories, and it's the criticism we level at high-expectation quarterbacks for 37-34 defeats.
It's three months of speculation about a quarterback's contract negotiations, followed by two weeks of either: A) decrying him as overpaid; or B) tutting that the team "won" the negotiations.
It's the out-of-context press-conference quote, the body language after the interception, the not-so-thinly-veiled phrases like "proven leader" and "athletic young quarterback." It's the quarterback's personal life, social life, number of commercials and presence on Instagram. It's a never-ending argument about whether he is "elite.