Who is our backup QB?

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(05-22-2022, 05:18 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: So it appears that if your QB doesn't miss more than a couple games, you should be ok. 

If your entire sample set is "teams that made the playoffs" then you automatically eliminate every team that missed the playoffs because they had a poor back up QB.

Then you show that a lot of the playoff teams had their QB miss games with injury.  But in order to prove that a good back up does not matter you would have to show that even if those playoff teams lost every game their starter missed they would still have made the playoffs.  So lets take a look.

If the Steelers lost the only game Ben missed they don't make the playoffs. 

If Eagles lost both games Jalen Hurts missed then they don't make the playoffs.

If Niners lost both games that Garappollo missed then they might have missed the playoffs. (tied with Saints at 9-8.  Don't know the tiebreaker)

If Arizona lost all three games that Murray missed then they also might have missed the playoffs at 9-8.

So in just ONE season we see FOUR cases where teams could not have made the playoffs if they lost all the games their starter missed. The backups for those 4 teams went 4-3-1 and all the teams made the playoffs.