NFL football is an incredibly complicated game played by rotating, changing platoons of 11 men formed into squads by a dozen or more coaches and a small army of executives, staff and interns.
Yet fans and the media often boil the whole game down to just two people: the quarterbacks.
We insist on quoting win-loss records and counting "rings" for quarterbacks while erasing the efforts of hundreds of other people in the process. Coming into the Wild Card Round matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Indianapolis Colts, most of the talk revolved around which of the two quarterbacks would win the game.
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