It’s worth pointing out that your list of top 5 passer rating is all QBs outside of Rogers drafted around or within ten years ago. Perhaps that reflects a change in the game more so than QB play. But that’s irrelevant to what coddled means.
Just because I didn’t give a definition doesn’t mean I didn’t consider the one given correctly. You think Romo not throwing a pass in three years in a real game means he was coddled?
There are multiple synonyms for the term: pampered, spoiled, babied, catered to, favored, etc.
All of those terms imply someone who didn’t have to earn his way into his position, the exact opposite of Romo.
You used the term as if Parcells was just favoring him as some kind of pet favorite and he wasn’t actually learning, producing in practice, and earning the coach’s respect for nearly three years, which by all accounts, was the case, the exact opposite of being coddled.