You may wonder how I can be so sure this will be the case and I will swiftly respond...History. Sure history can change and if it does I'll eat my words, but this time that will be unlikely. Let's play a game. Off the top of your head can you name one great dual-threat quarterback that won a Superbowl? No? How about if you look through the pages of Superbowl history? Did you find one yet? No you didn't and do you want to know why. That's because since 1966, Superbowl I, it has never happened. A prolific running quarterback has never won a Superbowl, in fact the only time you can say a running quarterback even played in the Superbowl would be if you still considered Donovan Mcnabb one in 2004. I wouldn't, but maybe you would.
Sure they can make it to the conference championships like Michael Vick and they can have winning records in the regular season. They have just never won a championship.
Let's look over the last 15 years just for kicks-
Year Winning QB Losing QB
'10 Aaron Rodgers Ben Roethlisberger
'09 Drew Brees Peyton Manning
'08 Ben Roethlisberger Kurt Warner
'07 Eli Manning Tom Brady
'06 Peyton Manning Rex Grossman
'05 Ben Roethlisberger Matt Hasselbeck
'04 Tom Brady Donovan Mcnabb
'03 Tom Brady Jake Delhomme
'02 Brad Johnson Rich Gannon
'01 Tom Brady Kurt Warner
'00 Trent Dilfer Kerry Collins
'99 Kurt Warner Steve Mcnair
'98 John Elway Chris Chandler
'97 John Elway Brett Favre
'96 Brett Favre Drew Bledsoe
See my friends, history doesn't lie and what it is telling us now is that Carolina might have been better off molding Jimmy Clausen. Now instead they must not only hope that Cam Newton is going to be the franchise quarterback, but that he will also be the first of his kind to ever win it all.
All I can say is... Good luck.
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