When it comes to some NFL quarterbacks, we tend to bend over backwards to find ways to couch their everyday behavior as some master class in leadership because it’s a universally accepted idea that all quarterbacks must be great leaders. Oh, he jokes with his teammates? Leader. He helps out new receivers who don’t know the offense? Lombardi under center.
While, in some ways, the position demands certain inherent traits that would require others to respect you, or at least tolerate you, sometimes those of us writing about football for a living break a sweat trying to jam a square peg into a round hole.