Who is our backup QB?

[Mike M (the other one)]

(05-22-2022, 05:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 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.

That's why you build a complete rooster, so the TEAM can handle a halfway competent back up QB starting for a game or two. Backups are backups for a reason, if they need to start more than a couple games, then you are likely going to miss the playoffs anyways.

Steelers tied
Eagles 1-1
Niners 1-1 (but they invested a high pick on a QB)
Cards 2-1

But this is only 4 out of the 14 teams that made the playoffs.

Aside from Eagles/Bengals, all the rest of the teams were pretty much predicted to be there, because their teams are pretty solid all the way around.

So Now instead of getting a player that could help us on the OL/DL you'd rather bump extra $$ into a Backup when Joe B doesn't have a history of missing games to begin with?
 If after a few years, and Joe B turns out to start missing multiple games per year, then yes, we need to get a better backup.