because it's not the best backup quarterback. It's
subjective. It's the backup quarterback in whom you have
the most Faith. Go
There's some good ones out there. Well, I think the first
one that I, you know,
I might go with it. There is, there's a difference here and
who you have faith in and who you think's better, and no
backup quarterbacks, it depends on the situation here a little
bit,
but I think one that, you know, of course, the,
how could you not have faith in Tyrod, Taylor's a backup. That
would be one that just right off the bat. Jumps out, to me,
you know, he's, he's played a lot of football.
He can make some plays with his legs.
And you know, he's not when he does get thrown into those type
of environments, hea since he's played, he's not going to be
flustered, so I go get him to handle those situations, you
know, pretty damn. Well,
I don't necessarily mean that there's some quarterbacks,
I think are better than him that are actually backups, but
I have confidence that he can come in and handle
the situation,
handle the defense, what they're doing, offense, all of that.
So I'll go with Tyrod, Taylor there.
What we've been talking about a quarterback. Who is now
a backup who was once a Super Bowl BP. There is one
quarterback, who's still a backup? Who won a Super Bowl
MVP as a backup,
Nick Foles, the Ultimate
Backup. You want to have faith in a guy. It's Jekyll and Hyde.
If he's the starter, he's horrible, if he's the backup.
He's incredible. He's just wired. A certain way. I don't
know what it is. I don't know how it is and I doubt that he
understands
what it is or how it is.
He cannot perform
consistently well under the pressure of being the guy.
You make him the back up to the guy
and you press him into service
and something comes over him. Yeah, it's unbelievable. It is
it's inexplicable and if it happens and if you've watched
any of them Colts bills over the weekend, I mean Nick Foles
did not look good but I don't care about that. What I care
about is
if the Colts need him at some
point in the season, to replace Matt, Ryan.
I have more faith in him than any other. Number two
quarterback in the NFL. Yeah, II, understand that and then
you're right, there is something about that
psychological.
Of, there's a different set of pressure on you. This compare,
you know, starter compared to backup. And for whatever
reason, he doesn't necessarily handle the starting pressure
all that. Well, when he comes off, the bench,
seems to kind of thrive in that environment.
I'll go with Case Keenum, I got great faith in Case Keenum,
I do just to, you know, hold down the fort again
and then not that. I always look at some of these guys that
they're going to go out and win games and maybe be the best
option for an eight-game stretch. But
man, you got to play 2 or 3 games and
you know, settle the team down and manage the game that way
case kingdoms a good athlete, he's a good arm, you know, and
he's smart and there's a reason he's been hanging around
the NFL for as long as he has. He's,
you know, one of those guys that
It just knows how to play the game and
knows how to take care of the football. So Case Keenum is
a guy that I would certainly have a lot of a lot of respect for
in that in that manner. Thank back to 2019. The Chiefs had
Matt Moore hold the fort down for a short period of time
and they ended up winning the Super Bowl while. Patrick
Mahomes recovered from that knee injury. Suffered on
a Thursday night against Denver. I'm going Teddy, Bridgewater,
simply because
I'm if if that offense needs
the back up in lieu of to a tongue of Allah, I think
they'll be just as good
if not better with Teddy. Bridgewater,
why not remember when he first signed? There was that. Weird
day or two? Where right Teddy created. The impression you
called him out a little bit for maybe being a little
presumptuous. Maybe
Miss start deriving, the Halo
was going to be right, creating kind of, in a passive
aggressive way a controversy, but I think if the Dolphins
need him, I mean, that's part of determining faith in your
backup. What's the
Off from 1 to 2 with the dolphins. Sorry. To and on,
I don't think there's a drop-off,
right? I don't disagree with you there, either. And we saw
just a few years ago, he's another guy.
He's better as a backup than he is a starter, you know, it's
Carolina, Denver and saying, came in for the Saints and that
team,
the middle of the year,
you know, he's not asked to carry the team,
the team can adjust and
kind of manage the game of different way for a few games
with that guy, you know, That's what I think we're talking
about here. And I do think there's other backups that are
more talented that I would
maybe trust to wrap the long season. But yeah, these guys
here,
they're you're right. You don't worry about it, you don't worry
about them getting in and out of the Huddle and missing
a check or missing a blitz or
or stuff like that. And that's where they give you great
confidence because they got the Reps that way. All right, next
one I'm going to go with. Well we're going with all I'm going
to go with a new age one, I mean, Andy Dalton's out there,
I know that
but I'm gonna go.
One of these new guys, Tyler Hundley. I got great confidence
in Tyler Hundley. And Baltimore. I mean, again, would
he just dice them up again this past weekend until you know
against Tennessee Titans? What was he 16 for
18? Or 14 for 16?
He's smart. He's accurate. Throwing the football and then
he's can make some plays off schedule when he needs to.
I mean, I think Baltimore
they got, yeah, they got something there. He's one of
the better backups in football and I'm a big Tyler Huntley,
Finn,
I remember Lamar Jackson say NG at one point last preseason.
I hope I never have to face him as the starter with another
team. And you know what if
if Jackson when Jackson if he ever signs his long-term
contract is not like they're going to have the luxury of
keeping Huntley around. It's going to be a Tyrod Taylor
situation. Tyrod, Taylor was
a back up to Joe Flacco at one point. The contract expires,
and I'm going to pay him to be your backup. He's going to go
somewhere else and get a chance to become the guy. And I think
it's just a matter of time before Huntley gets chance to
be a starter
in Baltimore, if things.
Workout with Lamar Jackson, or definitely elsewhere. Last one,
for me, I'm going with the former Longhorn, the guy who
was two on one last year when calamari was out Colt McCoy,
you know, just kind of quietly,
overlooked, probably a guy that
if he's playing that week, the opposing defense, not as
buttoned-up, not as, as
focused on Preparation it, Colt McCoy, what the hell's Colt
McCoy? Ever done? Well, he'll he'll he'll beat you. If you
give them an opportunity to do so and he's another guy, even
though he was never
a franchise guy,
he's happy to be part of the game. He's happy to continue to
hang around. He's not trying to position himself, to be
a starter. He understands where he fits in the football
hierarchy and when he gets an opportunity,
he he goes out and makes the most of it he does. You can
trust him
again. There's another guy and where, you know, I don't know
if you want them to be your starter, but 434 game stretch,
you know, he can manage the offense and do the things
the right way. It's an interesting
Conversation when you have here
because you know, I
it's there's, there's two different ways to look at
backups. So, you know, come in and save the team. I know we
picked these guys, but if you made me let go,
hey, a backups. Got to start the year and do things that
way. That's where I, you know, I forgot we were doing this
draft and it caught me off guard a little bit
like Gardner. Minshew should be on our list here and I'll
Gardner, Minshew, and Tyler Huntley. I think for
an extended period of time. Time.
I actually think I would trust them more
than Case Keenum and Teddy Bridgewater. I would I think
they would make more plays and be better off fensively. Now,
I don't know if that necessarily means they'll come men in
the third quarter of a game
and be quite as smooth because they haven't had this much
experience maybe as a Tyrod Taylor. And those guys. So
there is difference in how to look at this back up and we
don't have enough time to get into this, but we should
have had Gardner Minshew in there, too.
Because he's a guy that's
I trust. Big time and if he gets there it gets in there and
Philadelphia just like weekend, we saw him the other night.
He just you know, it's boom boom boom. Right down
the field. And he did that in the regular season last year. To
when he had to play against the New York Jets. I got tremendous
confidence in him as well.
I had him on my list
and I still don't know why he's a backup. I don't know why
the Seahawks didn't try to trade for him. I'd have more
confidence in Gardner, Minshew
than Geno Smith or Drew lock. If he's the guy that you're
saying is our guy, we're going to ride. To do Seattle, versus
everybody Russell Wilson, wanted out. Our attitude is f
all of you Gardner. Minshew is the perfect quarterback for
that.
If that's the vibe that they're trying to create,
I remember last year, he was like this forgotten figure,
although Urban Meyer was trying to create some stupid-ass
quarterback controversy in order to apparently, generate
more trade value for Minshew. It didn't work. They only got
a sixth-round pick for him, which is ridiculous.
And I do think he's a valuable
backup and a viable future.
Carter, in the NFL, this is year
for, for him, I believe. So after this season, he becomes
free agent and it'll be interesting to see. You know,
when you start thinking about the guys will be available in
March,
he's a guy that maybe we look at and say,
yeah, those teams that are maybe looking for that bridge
quarterback or whatever or just, hey, we're not sure what
we're going to do. But we'll make him the guy and maybe he
can prove to us. He is the guy and if not all right, nobody
really expected him to be the guy. So then we can
You need to look for other options out there. Yeah.
I hear you and he is one of those guys where
men have almonds. Jalen hurts.
Yeah, I would in your on that team because that team is
stacked. They are one of the best rosters in football, where
I go, he gets hurt,
get healthy in a hurry because gardeners that kind of guy that
we know it's lightning rod personality, the team rallies
around them and they're a good football team, where,
you know, he could be a pain in the butt and start a little,
you know, Schism
as far as the fan base and all that, is that a rightward
Schism that that's the right word? Well done, well done.
That that was coined about this time, 13 years ago, when Brett
Farr was about to come a viking. And there was
supposedly a Schism
between the players who wanted
to Paris Jackson
and those who want to Brett Favre. And then far showed up
for one practice in the Schism went away. Yeah, it's a, whoa,
the football 180 times of all like that. Okay, he's
a quarterback. They're there when this isn't
but you know what? It's an entertainment business.
And like Favre Gardner. Minshew is extremely entertaining
and there's a lot of boring quarterbacks out there. Minshew
isn't one of them and and he makes the game a little spicier
if he's on the field or if he's the guy who's talking to
the media off the field,