RG3 Gave His Top Five NFC QBs and Fans Couldn’t Stop Ripping the NFC

The NFL offseason is in full swing, which means it’s a perfect time for analysts to kill some time by putting out rankings that can get people all fired up about a sport that doesn’t have any meaningful games for quite some time.

That’s what happened Thursday on ESPN when Robert Griffin III presented his top five quarterbacks in the NFC.

Nothing too crazy about that, right?

Well, the names on his list told a deeper story about the state of the conference and how much better the AFC is right now at that very important position.

Here’s the former NFL QB explaining his top five:

Top 5 Quarterbacks in the NFC
1. Jalen Hurts
2. Kirk Cousins
3. Dak Prescott
4. Kyler Murray
5. Geno Smith
(Pending Rodgers Trade to Jets) pic.twitter.com/f1gPu5msJo
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) March 23, 2023

Jalen Hurts is great and coming off a very good year in which he led the Eagles to the Super Bowl.

The rest of that list is tough.

Is Kirk Cousins really the second-best QB in the NFC? Really?

Dak Prescott is very good but needs to have some postseason success.

Kyler Murray suffered a major knee injury last season and will likely miss a bunch of time in 2023.

Geno Smith had a nice comeback season for Seahawks but he wouldn’t come anywhere close to the top five in the AFC.

Speaking of the AFC, that division has Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Justin Herbert. And soon it might have a fella named Aaron Rodgers.

Yeah, the NFC is not great in comparison.

NFL fans were quick to point that out:

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what this really tells me is how weak the NFC is with quarterbacks https://t.co/1D50meQXVP
— Sean W. Alcide (@SeanWAlcide) March 23, 2023

My goodness. The NFC is so weak… https://t.co/duPw8r5LRJ
— Jose Sanchez III (@JSanchezFN) March 23, 2023

The NFL has a qb problem https://t.co/lrwCR5KW6E
— carl (@PrizePicks24) March 23, 2023

I’m almost positive this is the weakest QB conference since I’ve been alive https://t.co/BuZCBsHAMS
— Matt (@MattMileHigh) March 23, 2023

The NFC is not okay lol https://t.co/4GqoUZnheE
— Claude Thompson (via trade from BUF) (@Th3Claude) March 23, 2023

Good Lord this is mid https://t.co/AeyHkcJT1F
— 🚘👓 (Car-lens) (@carlenstweet) March 23, 2023

NFC is down horrendously https://t.co/gffbEQMFTy
— Snyds ✨️〽️ (@ChopChop570) March 23, 2023

nfc is so trash😂😂 https://t.co/AoEn3wWHPE
— Rowdy Roid🫠 (@KingRoid2) March 23, 2023

The NFC quarterbacks vs the AFC quarterbacks is the biggest discrepancy in sports 😂 https://t.co/6MZ6Sm4FgJ
— ⚡️Garrett Ferguson⚡️ (@GarrettSprints) March 23, 2023

Yikes the NFC is a dumpster fire https://t.co/x1ZG3zUdKZ
— Gianni Rosas (@RosasGianni) March 23, 2023