Who wasnt? If you was growing up during the mike vick, Donovan, McNair and culpepper era, you thought they were only starting because of how they ran.
In combination with the rooney rule implementation, it muddled a lot of how you saw the league.
Mainstream Analyst did a terrible jobs sans a couple, framing how great these qb’s were.
To me, It wasnt til wilbon and some other black journalist put things into persepctive, that you started to realize it was a concerted effort by the league to keep the narrative the same.