Comments on: Tebow-Sanchez doomed to fail because two quarterbacks never work http://www.footballperspective.com/tebow-sanchez-doomed-to-fail-because-two-quarterbacks-never-work/ NFL History and Stats Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tim Truemper http://www.footballperspective.com/tebow-sanchez-doomed-to-fail-because-two-quarterbacks-never-work/#comment-360 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:54:51 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=1589#comment-360 Chase’s pithiness makes his point. Two QB’s does not mean a death knell to success for a team or to wreck a player’s outlook and confidence to prosper in the long run. There are certainly examples to the contrary as provided by the other readers, but again, 2 Qb’s does not guarantee success or predict failure. Seeems to depend on individual circumstances. Per Scott Katzman’s reminiscence of Landry’s QB management career, as we all know he alternated QB’s each play at times, early on with LeBaron and Meredith (with ok results at times) and with Morton and Staubach (a relative failure as yards were up but turnovers and penalties on the offense also higher too).

]]> By: Richie http://www.footballperspective.com/tebow-sanchez-doomed-to-fail-because-two-quarterbacks-never-work/#comment-322 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:21:41 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=1589#comment-322 I think there are lots of teams that have used multiple QBs during the year.

But I think where the Jets situation IS similar to the teams that Chase mentioned is in the profile of the QBs.

The 1995 Raiders may have swapped QBs a lot, but if memory serves, Jeff Hostetler was the starter when the season started, and nobody expected Evans or Hobert to challenge him for the job. Most (all?) of their starts came as a result of injuries to Jeff Hostetler.

So back to the Jets. Tebow and Sanchez may or may not be good QBs. But they ARE both famous. And they ARE both young (theoretically have not peaked in talent). So the Jets are going in to a situation where they have one guy who has been somewhat successful (in terms of W-L) as their starter for a few years, and brought in a backup who was also somewhat successful, and is probably MORE famous than Sanchez.

So the real comparison would be comparing the Jets to other teams who had an incumbent QB, and then brought in a backup who is still in the first half of his career, and is famous, and is somewhere in the same ballpark in terms of talent. Then see if having that backup around effected the incumbent’s performance and/or the team’s performance.

Here’s a comparison that in hindsight seems silly, but may be similar: the 1983 Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins had a 25-year-old starting QB (David Woodley) who was 24-10-1 as a starter and coming off a Super Bowl appearance. They took a flyer and drafted the 6th-best QB in that draft to challenge Woodley (who was questionably good, despite his W-L success). Woodley started the first 5 games in 1983, but due to a struggling offense he was benched in favor of Dan Marino in week 6 and the rest is history.

Woodley had AV’s of 10 in 1981 and 1982 (Sanchez’ best is a 9 AV).

Woodley’s 5 games in 1983 had generally worse rate stats than any other season of his career. Was Marino putting pressure on him that he failed to resist?

Woodley is one of two quarterbacks in NFL history (Ken Stabler) to have a career winning percentage above .600 while also throwing at least 10 more interceptions than touchdowns. Woodley’s career record was 34-18-1 (.651) despite throwing 63 interceptions against his 48 career touchdown passes.

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