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CLEVELAND, Ohio – What is Jeff Driskel, Taylor Heinicke, Alex Tanney and an alpaca have in common?
None of them should start a quarterback NFL game this season.
Anything but the alpaca could.
The state of the NFL quarterbacks should leave more than half of the league, maybe two-thirds, maybe 90%, with nerves coming in the first week. My shocking discovery over the weekend is that eight former Browns quarterbacks are the main substitutes for the league.
It's not just about Brandon Weeden, Cody Kessler, Brock Osweiler, Brian Hoyer, Josh McCown, DeShone Kizer, Colt McCoy and Robert Griffin III.
It's also about C.J. Beathard, Cooper Rush, Chase Daniel and the Chads, Henne and Kelly.
And it's about Browns. While the debate raged over whether Tyrod Taylor or Baker Mayfield should start for the Browns, as Hue Jackson never hesitated from Taylor, did we spend time on the back of this competition? ?
The Browns have the best quarterback of the NFL. No lies.
Whether a three year old with a winning track record that led his team to the playoffs last year or the # 1 choice that quickly adapted to the pros 's requirements and that' s n & # 39; did not seem outclassed, that's the truth.
When Taylor was hand-injured in the third preseason game, an injury that seemed potentially serious, no one panicked. Mayfield was ready. If the roles were reversed, the feelings would not change.
This is not true elsewhere in the league.
The Oakland Raiders reached the end of the pre-season, did not like any option behind Derek Carr and traded a fifth-round pick to Buffalo for AJ McCarron.
The Green Bay Packers, after watching Brett Hundley to go 3-6 last year after the MVP candidate, Aaron Rodgers, had fallen, traded against Kizer, the failed starter of Browns. When Kizer defeated Hundley, the Seattle Seahawks traded against Hundley and offered him support behind MVP candidate Russell Wilson.
The Houston Texans had a 1-9 record without Deshaun Watson last year, and they replaced Tom Savage by Weeden, who failed a two-year pass.
New Orleans signed a contract with Savage to support Drew Brees, then got angry with him in the camp and traded against the Jets. Teddy Bridgewater, a talented quarterback suffering from a serious knee injury that any team could have signed during the off-season.
The Patriots have sat on Jimmy Garoppolo for years and, after last year's trade, Jimmy G is the big supporter of San Francisco. Reinforcement of Tom Brady, the biggest quarterback of all time, is that of Hoyer, he has six career teams and 16-21 as a starter.
Rookies Josh Allen and Josh Rosen are No. 2 in Buffalo and Arizona, but are they ready? Not as ready as Mayfield, chosen in front of them.
Veterans Matt Schaub, Matt Cassel and Ryan Fitzpatrick are the backups in Atlanta, Detroit and Tampa, but are they ready? At 37, 36 and 35, not as ready as Taylor, still at its peak at 29, would be if Mayfield slipped into the starting role.
The Rams could win 13 games with Jared Goff quarterback. They will not do it if they need backup Sean Mannion, who has completed 31 NFL passes in three years.
The Minnesota Vikings practically had to buy their own dome at Kirk Cousins, his free agent contract was so huge. Last year, when Viking starter Sam Bradford broke down, the second, Case Keenum, went from 11 to 3 and made his first job in Denver. The backup of Cousins is therefore Trevor Siemian, which was so low from Denver last year in 5-5, that the Broncos have signed Keenum.
Good backups from last year are now starters. New backups are either failed starters, untested youngsters, or mentor QBs on their last legs.
This is a league where the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl last season with Nick Foles Carson Wentz saw his season ended in injury. Foles was a hot name during the off season. He wrote a book, but he did not change jobs. He will start the opening game on Thursday night as Wentz again work on health.
You've seen pre-season Foles, 5-0 Browns in which Foles was intercepted twice. Are you sure the Super Bowl hero is a better support than Mayfield right now?
Jacoby Brissett was announced as a pretty solid backup in Indianapolis after Andrew Luck was lost last year. Still, the Colts had a 4-11 record in their debut, while he had thrown 13 touchdowns in 15 games.
With the chargers, Geno Smith is behind the future Philip Rivers Hall of Fame member, and Mason Rudolph and Joshua Dobbs are looking for future Ben Roethlisberger Hall of Fame member in Pittsburgh after five years of help have been dropped. Blaine Gabbert, with his career record of 11-34, lies behind rising star Marcus Mariota in Tennessee.
With QB backup, it's usually your choice: starter failed, young man or old man. If they were so good, they would always start.
By choosing the best backup in the league, you can certainly defend Foles or defend Bridgewater if it is healthy. But we have just gone through all the quarterbacks of the league. (Wait, we remember Gary Alpaca?)
Did you want any of them to be a backup more than the options already offered by Cleveland?
There is a choice # 1 that is ready when needed.
There is a starter of three years with a record winner who is not yet 30 years old and he became a leader of the franchise before playing a regular season game.
Yes, there is a quarterback debate in Cleveland. That's because there are two quarterbacks.
This is not the case almost everywhere else. The Browns do not have the best starting quarterback in the league, not nearly. But in a league where teams are forced to try to win with backups all the time, they have the best number 2.
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