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It feels like in the 21st century there are four archetypes for QB.
One is the Tom Brady / Peyton Manning "can decipher the defense at the LoS and adjust the offense on the fly to exploit it".
Two is the Aaron Rodgers / Brett Favre "I'm a fucking gunslinger".
Three is the Warner / Stafford / Wilson "our offensive system is really great and our QB executes is really well". Arguably some years of Roethlisberger, Eli Manning, and Brees fit in here, maybe even early-years Peyton Manning.
Four is the Dilfer / Johnson / Foles "our QB doesn't lose us games that our defense wins".
There are probably some hybrids, too. Mahomes seems like a combo between 2 and 3. Could get to 1 someday/soon, too.
Clearly Group One is what you want, as it accounts for the greatest number of SB victories this century, but those guys are also unicorns, to the extent that I can't really think of an exact pre-2000 analog to those two. Maybe Montana, though for all his excellence he seems more Group Three.
So, I would suspect that most front offices, knowing you can't really count on getting a Group One, either fall into a category where they want to find a Group Two and "let him cook" (where, based on Favre & Rodgers, at least, doesn't get you as far, as consistently, as you'd think) or, more recently, have looked at Sean McVay and Goff then Stafford and want go go Group Three (which starts with the hire of a particular Head Coach profile, that clearly brings along some of its own potential issues).
And then there are clearly some front offices willing to delude themselves into thinking they have a Two or Three when in reality they have a Four at best.
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