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QBs Drafted to be back ups?

Would a team draft a QB knoiwng the QB will ONLY be a backup?

  • Yes....explain

    Votes: 70 65.4%

  • No....explain

    Votes: 37 34.6%
  • Total voters
    107
  • Poll closed .
JTBRLZ said:
You shouldn't really draft a player if your best expectations are for him to be a career back-up.
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Exactly.

People are drafted in order to play.

Yep, I am pretty sure that they are drafted so that one day they could play.
 
rickeyrunsover said:
So you think Atl would go into a panic if Vick got hurt? No because they have a guy they are confident in that can come in and start a full season and play well and keep them in contention/make them contenders. Vick went down with injury for most of 2003, they had no other starting calibur qb on their roster, they blew. Shaub was drafted to be a career backup? Wanna bet he isnt always a backup? That he gets a chance to start at some point in his career?

I am sorry your argument is wrong, it is sorry. You are right that many or even a majority of late rds qbs are never anymore than backups, but that is because they didnt develop, so be it, they took a chance, it didnt work, hge didnt develop into a starting calibur qb, it happens, but that isnt saying that is what teh coach wanted when he drafted him, you dont draft a guy hoping or even thinking this guy cant become a starting calibur player.

If you need a backup qb because you dont have one, you dont look for him in the 5th and 6th rds, you go and sign a vet FA, not depend on a raw kid that isnt polished even as a college qb.
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LMAO!! Of course he is going to start if he was the backup to a QB that went down. THat is the point. Geez, please read all the posts. If a QB is drafted to be a backup to QB A and QB A gets hurt then backup QB will be expected to be servicable while QB A is out. After QB A comes back, the backup goes back to what he was doing: backing up. He gained a little experience, yet not enough to say hey this guy could be a super star. SO he remains a backup. Folks, it happens all the time.
 
jaxdolfan said:
Exactly.

People are drafted in order to play.

Yep, I am pretty sure that they are drafted so that one day they could play.
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Yeah they are all drafted to play. SOme are drafted to START and some are drafted for depth. 53 man roster. 11 men on the field at once. Everyone isn't a starter. MORE than half that 53 are GUESS>....that's right: BACKUPS that were drafted for depth. SOme of them are QBs.
 
SCall13 said:
LMAO!! Of course he is going to start if he was the backup to a QB that went down. THat is the point. Geez, please read all the posts. If a QB is drafted to be a backup to QB A and QB A gets hurt then backup QB will be expected to be servicable while QB A is out. After QB A comes back, the backup goes back to what he was doing: backing up. He gained a little experience, yet not enough to say hey this guy could be a super star. SO he remains a backup. Folks, it happens all the time.
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Man open YOUR eyes. A coach will draft a qb knowing he will be a backup, but that doesnt mean that is all he will ever be, that they dont believe that that qb will eventually start or be traded to team with a chance to start in return for picks or other starters. They dont draft a qb with the intent that that qb will always be a backup, initially? Happens all the time. But not CAREER backups.

By the way, do you want to answer the bet? You ho hummed about Shaub yet failed to answer the question that was posed, do you think Shaub will NEVER get a chance to be a starter?
 
jaxdolfan said:
Trick question...NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE H4LL WANNY WAS THINKING WITHT THAT MOVE!
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Yeah he was, doesnt mean it was a smart move, just means that was what it was, a developmental guy.
 
SCall13 said:
Yeah they are all drafted to play. SOme are drafted to START and some are drafted for depth. 53 man roster. 11 men on the field at once. Everyone isn't a starter. MORE than half that 53 are GUESS>....that's right: BACKUPS that were drafted for depth. SOme of them are QBs.
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Yeah. That spermBellychick sure is an idiot for drafting Tom Brady to be a backup to Bledsoe.
 
SCall13 said:
Yeah they are all drafted to play. SOme are drafted to START and some are drafted for depth. 53 man roster. 11 men on the field at once. Everyone isn't a starter. MORE than half that 53 are GUESS>....that's right: BACKUPS that were drafted for depth. SOme of them are QBs.
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Yep but your caught now arent you? See you can hang on that narrow thread that allows you to say you are right, and on that thread, you are. Trouble is, players are drafted with the intent that early on they would be backups initially, but that could potentially develop into a starter, you know #1 on the depth chart down teh road? Just because a player was drafted for depth intitially, doesnt mean the coach drafted him with the hopes that that was all he would ever be.
 
inFINSible said:
The guy that started this thread has not been able to wrap his head around this very simple concept, and now he's confused you as well.
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Unfair. I've been generally confused for decades.
 
jaxdolfan said:
Yeah. That spermBellychick sure is an idiot for drafting Tom Brady to be a backup to Bledsoe.
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And as I said in COUNTLESS posts, there are exceptions. SOmetimes you get lucky.
 
rickeyrunsover said:
Man open YOUR eyes. A coach will draft a qb knowing he will be a backup, but that doesnt mean that is all he will ever be, that they dont believe that that qb will eventually start or be traded to team with a chance to start in return for picks or other starters. They dont draft a qb with the intent that that qb will always be a backup, initially? Happens all the time. But not CAREER backups.

By the way, do you want to answer the bet? You ho hummed about Shaub yet failed to answer the question that was posed, do you think Shaub will NEVER get a chance to be a starter?
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My eyes are WIDE open. And I can look around the league and see plenty of career back up QBs.
 
Of course they do! You think Indianapolis needs to draft another starting QB? Hell no. They draft guys that can step in and manage the game, not dominate it like Manning can.
 
SCall13 said:
My eyes are WIDE open. And I can look around the league and see plenty of career back up QBs.
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But you can't look around the league and see ONE SINGLE QB that was GUARANTEED to be nothing more than a career back-up when they were drafted. That's not debatable in the least. Evry QB drafted no matter what eventually happened to them, was drafted because somebody thought they could develop into a starter.

Trust me, if we were both GMs in this league, I would LOVE for YOU to be drafting career back-ups.

Me personally, I might end up with career back-ups but, you can bet your a$$ that every guy I draft will be because I think he can be a starter one day.

You draft for back-ups, I'm looking for superstars. :lol:
 
i think your hindsight is blinding you from whats really going on lets look at this draft...

in the 4th round carolina drafts stephan lefors when they already had 3 QBs on the roster... delhomme, weinke, and this rutherford 3rd string guy... so why is lefors being brought in, to be a career practice squad guy? to take the place of rutherford in an all important battle for 3rd string QB...

no hes being brought in cause they liked something about him and they think hes got potential to be a good qb in this league, so they'll bring him into training camp and see what happens, hoping he could develop into a potential starter... they dont draft him saying ok this guy will be the backup for us, they drafting him saying ok this guys got some talent to be a good NFL QB lets bring him in and see how he'll do... he might END UP a career backup, but hes not gonna be drafted assuming thats all his talent will ever take him to be...
 
inFINSible said:
But you can't look around the league and see ONE SINGLE QB that was GUARANTEED to be nothing more than a career back-up when they were drafted. That's not debatable in the least. Evry QB drafted no matter what eventually happened to them, was drafted because somebody thought they could develop into a starter.

Trust me, if we were both GMs in this league, I would LOVE for YOU to be drafting career back-ups.

Me personally, I might end up with career back-ups but, you can bet your a$$ that every guy I draft will be because I think he can be a starter one day.

You draft for back-ups, I'm looking for superstars. :lol:
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Like I have said coubtless times: QBs are drafted to be backups. Coaches HOPE they become more but realize that the odds are against it. If they become even better than expected, that is great. If not, they got what they were after - a servicable backup.
Of course everyone is looking for superstars. But a REALISTIC GM KNOWS that SUPERSTARS are few and far between- especically in later rounds.
 
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