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  • Ben goes in, he has a good combo of durability, efficiency, volume, regular season wins and playoff success, I think he has a much, much better case than Eli, Rivers and Ryan, even if the individual accolades fall short of the players generally included in the Hall at his position. The thing is we can’t overestimate the counting stats for the Matt Ryan/Phillip Rivers of the world because in 15 years they’ll be what, 14th and 16th in the all time passing yards leaderboards and then what? They were among the first wave to play their whole careers under the post-2004 rule change that made passing explode (and then it exploded again post 2007 or so), of course they’ll rank highly in the volume categories. But then there’s a good chance they’ll be surpassed by guys like Stafford, Goff… I love that the football Hall of Fame is very selective. Don’t want to turn it into the NBA, where it’s completely watered down.