The GOAT

[NannyMcafee]

Who is the greatest career backup QB of all time? 

[2006Coltsbestever]

Doug Flutie

[Lucky Colts Fan]

Frank Reich

[BloodyChamp]

I'm going to include some former starters who had what we're almost separate careers as backups (meaning more than 1 or 2 years).

 

Dave Krieg

Y.A Tittle

Earl Morall

Bernie Kosar (just because he made the 2nd best throw I've ever seen as a backup)

Doug Williams

George Blanda

[Chrisaaron1023]

Are these guys who never started? Or how long did they have to be a backup?

[BloodyChamp]

I recently read that Blanda had 2 400+ yards games in 1 season, 1 of which included a 7 touchdown beatdown. This is the same guy that's behind Favre in interceptions. That proves my point about interceptions that I'm always hammering at more than anything else. They just don't directly yield how good or bad a quarterback is, especially before this era.

[Qwiz]

Curtis Painter 

[Coltsfan1953]

Rosencopter? 

[GoPats]

Career back-up? Or one-time back-up?
 

You've had some pretty good guys (Aaron Rodgers, Steve Young) in that later category... 

 

 

[BloodyChamp]

T.J Rubley - anybody who remembers this knows he destroys the impeccable Curtis Painter.

[Synthetic]

Steve Young 1987 and 1988. The 49ers don't make the playoffs at all in 1988 if not for him. 

[csmopar]

Curtis Painter..... .without him, we'd not have Andrew Luck

[Archer]

Gary Hogeboom...

[NannyMcafee]

On 8/8/2017 at 9:04 AM, Chrisaaron1023 said:

Are these guys who never started? Or how long did they have to be a backup?

 

Career back up. 

[braveheartcolt]

Sir Tom Brady of Deflategate. He was a backup, no?

[2006Coltsbestever]

On ‎8‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 1:37 PM, Coltsfan1953 said:

Rosencopter? 

Rosencopter . That is awesome, how we won that game was unreal but have no fear the Copter was here!