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Crump said:
I've always said that you need a QB that mirrors your starter the best as possible as your reserve. I dont want a gimmicky QB as Tua's back-up. "yeah its great we have a QB that can come in and run the wildcat" well thats awesome since we spend 5 minutes in practice running those 3 plays, and the other 99% of practice is spent running your base offense. Skylar had over 1000 rushing yards in college, he's not exactly a statue. I was all for even trying to see if we could find a remotely decent leftie QB.

I still wanted to get Holton Ahlers another off season lookie, but thats homerism
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it would seem that way but when Andy Reid chooses Chad henne as your back up to Mahomes there couldn’t be a more completely opposite skill set in the game than those two.

Maybe if the backup is a serious downgrade even if they have a similar skill set it’s to risky to run the same offense so they choose to go in a different direction.?
 
djphinfan said:
it would seem that way but when Andy Reid chooses Chad henne as your back up to Mahomes there couldn’t be a more completely opposite skill set in the game than those two.

Maybe if the backup is a serious downgrade even if they have a similar skill set it’s to risky to run the same offense so they choose to go in a different direction.?
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Mahomes is sort of an outlier to the equation. You are really not going to find a QB with similiar traits to him. I know you can say that about most top tier starting QB's. I dont watch KC games, but i would think that Mahomes scampers and rushing yards is just a product of his escapability, not by play design.

Another thing is KC KNOWS they are ****ed if PM is lost for the season. He makes them great. I'm not knocking Tua, Im on record on a zillion threads saying lock him up, BUT I think we have a top tier, elite weapons, not just an elite QB with weapons he makes look good. I said it the second Trent Green got hurt in preseason back in 99, i had zero clue who Kurt Warner was (along with prob 99% of football fans), but i picked Kurt Warner up that day in fantasy football. ALMOST every at least decent QB is going to excel with these weapons, if they have all the first team reps for a few weeks. (i know this contradicts me wanting to lock up Tua long term, but i dont care, sign him)

Just find a smart QB that can minimalize mistakes and let our weapons do the work. I dont want a back up that we are gong to bring in just to run 3-4 speed options a game. Then if Tua gets hurt we have a QB that already has a mind set that he's made his name on his running ability so he take off to run instead of waiting to see if a WR gets open.

Do i want a **** lefty that can read the defense at the line of scrimmage as opposed to a decent righty that can run but takes longer to process the defense.... well it just depends on how **** that lefty is. I think over the course of the season, option A can maybe get a grasp of the offense and run it better than option B. But if option A is so **** that every other pass is a dead duck, then hell no.

I will say this tho, if we sign Tua to 55+ a year then we better get used to the above 2 options as back up, because we are either going to have low round rookie or vet minimum back up QB
 
Who could have ever foreseen out current
dilemma? And then to still get talked to like an idiot.
 
Gsmack_42 said:
So give a list of these smart teams that would make the playoffs. If they lost their starting QB in the first month of the season.
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Bob512 said:
The 72 Dolphins........
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:UP:

This EXACTLY why having a strong foundation is important. If you have a good defense, o-line, and running game, you can still be competitive with your back-up QB. While the game and the rules are very different today as compared to the 70s, a strong foundation is still relevant. And, also important is the ability of the person running the offense to change the offense if the back-up QB has different strengths and weaknesses than the starting QB.

Unfortunately, Miami doesn't have a strong foundation, or the ability to run a different style of offense when necessary. This is why they lose when Tua isn't playing, with the sole exception being one win against the lowly Jets. I know many say that it's hard to win without your starting QB, and while that may be true for most teams, Miami isn't like most teams. Miami has the offensive firepower (Hill, Waddle, Achane, a healthy Mostert, etc.) to stay competitive even with a mediocre back-up QB. If they were a well-built, well-run team with a strong foundation, they would still win games without Tua, but they're not.
 
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