Ryan Fitzpatrick Through The Years my God,
you look younger than Jack Wilson when he was a rookie.
There. He is. As he morphs his way through
his 17-year career with nine different teams and a beard
that got more and more awesome, the older he got. All right,
Peter best journeyman quarterbacks of all time
Europe.
Give me a real morale. Okay.
Now, for people who don't remember or immoral. He was
a guy who backed up to Hall of Famers Johnny Unitas. And Bob
Griese
played in two, Super Bowls
actually was the
basically was the winning quarterback. He relieved,
Johnny Unitas
in the Super Bowl, win over Dallas.
And so you wonder, can you consider a guy who played so
much
as a backward? Up quarterback. Well, Earl Morel was in the NFL
for 21 years
and started 10 games, four times.
That's a backup quarterback.
So to me, he's got he's he had a long career
of being a trusted back up and when he had to play he played
well,
that's a good one. I like that one.
The first guy I thought of and and look Ryan Fitzpatrick is
more recent and he really does fit the definition of
journeyman because he is Journeyed
everywhere. It's like that Johnny Cash song, but
I got to go Steve deberg
to me. That's the quintessential journeyman
quarterback. Who just kept popping up and popping up and
was good enough to stick around
bunch of different teams, Master of the play-action pass.
And by the way, he had
a little footnote to his career. He was out of football
for four years and came back and played for a season with
the Falcons in 1998. The year, they went to the Super Bowl and
lost to the Broncos. So,
Steve deberg around football forever
and always was. There always was good enough but played for
a bunch of different teams. Peter.
I hate to talk like a man of a certain age and and it doesn't
give me a lot of pleasure to get it to take another old guy,
but I just can't stay away from George Blanda and the reason.
And for people who don't really
know the story of George Blanda. He had one of the most
amazing careers in NFL history, his last year in the NFL. He
was 48 years old and they'll mostly he was a kicker later
in. His career,
just remember, you know, at the at the ripe old age of whatever
it was
7:45
44.
He won a few games. For the Oakland, Raiders and played
great in relief, in sort of a magical season for the Raiders.
And to me
he defines. What about even though he started a bunch of
games early in his career, his last 15 years. In the NFL were
mostly as a backup quarterback.
I'll go Vinny Testaverde as my next one. Another guy from
the 80s and 90s. And actually, he made it all the way into
the first decade of this Century, 87 to 2007, a bunch of
different teams. A major disappointment is the first
overall pick
of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
coming out of Miami with the Heisman Trophy,
but after he served his time with the Bucks just like
Steve Young. Did you go somewhere else and you become
a better quarterback? Not that he was ever great. Was always
pretty good. Found his way out of the field and up until 2007
when he,
when he came off the couch to play for the Panthers, and they
had an injury issue, and he was well into his 40s, by then
Vinny Testaverde, still around, and still looks great. Today.
We interviewed him at the Super Bowl
a couple of years ago.
And, you know, but for the gray hair, he looks like he could
put the helmet on and go out and play right now.
The all-time great journeyman quarterbacks, we have dipped
well into the past. With our
first two rounds round, three is upon us Peter you are up.
I'm going to take Nick Foles and I'll take Nick Foles
because not because he had a long career as a backup
quarterback. It's because he had an incredible career as
a backup quarterback when he played in won the Super Bowl
for the Philadelphia Eagles.
And then he comes in the next year and plays great another
playoff Run for the Eagles. So give me Falls.
Yeah, I think that's absolutely a great pic and he has been on
a bunch of different teams, and he never gets it done as
a starter. But he is great
as a backup in the Colts happen. This year.
I'm torn between Ryan Fitzpatrick and Josh McCown.
Let's just go back 5 minutes and say it's the Ryan
Fitzpatrick Memorial best journeyman quarterback of all
time draft, so he gets some recognition so that I can take
Josh McCown who actually played for 11
teams
Fitzpatrick, play 49 McCown played for 11 and it just felt
like he was never going to stop, and he had a great run
with the Bears. When Jay Cutler was
injured. He was the offensive player of the week. Shredded.
The Cowboys defense on a Monday night and it felt like McCown
was finally going to bust through. But he's been around
for a long time and
still potentially one of these days would be the head coach of
the Houston Texans, Peter
Mike, you know, I was going to in my last sentence on the show
today. I was going to say,
oh, you took the next coach of the Houston Texans. Nice of
heck.