Every year there are new rules changes favoring the air game. Every year, there are new rules affording protections to quarterbacks and wide receivers that neither defenders nor running backs and O-linemen enjoy. Every play, in play after play, pass receivers get away with push-offs, holds, and blatant pass-interference. On every passing down at least one, and usually several offensive linemen are flagrantly holding, and only the most egregious outrages are flagged. Quarterbacks are allowed to pretend that a player 15 yards from where a deliberately grounded ball lands is "in the area," or that by scooting -- usually in the grasp of a defender -- outside of a box five yards wide they aren't obviously grounding the ball.
This sissified version of "football" is what the NFL believes that fans want to see.
The result is: you don't have a premiere quarterback, you don't have a prayer. There are lots of Tony Romo's in the NFL. In previous decades, some of their teams would be heading to the playoffs.
Have you watched Adrian Peterson this year? In a just world the MVP voting this season won't even be close.
I hear you and sympathize, but you overlook glaring examples like San Fransisco, which was within a football grazing a knee of the Superbowl, Baltimore, which was denied by a freak field goal miss,the Jets, who went back to back to Championship games with Mark Freaking Sanchez, and especially Pittsburgh, which won two Superbowls and were competitive in a third despite the spotty Roethlisberger.
Remind me again what Morris did when RG3 proved mediocre?