Bonus exclusive: New Jets starting QB Mike White joins Kalyn Kahler on the QB2 series
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The Athletic's Kalyn Kahler's QB2 series profiles some of the most interesting guys in the league: backup quarterbacks. In this edition, Kalyn sits down with Mike White to discuss his journey from backup Mike White, to Mike "Effing" White. And with Zach Wilson benched, he's a backup no more.
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| 0:47.7 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm Kailen Kailer, senior NFL writer for the Athletic. |
| 0:52.7 | Welcome to QB2, the show where we talk to only my favorite |
| 0:56.8 | players in football, the backup quarterbacks. The backups are rarely the focus of any team. So here on |
| 1:02.6 | this show, this is where we celebrate them and give them their moment to tell us all of their |
| 1:06.5 | stories and their knowledge. QB2 is also a loose term because these guys shift up and down the death chart throughout |
| 1:13.4 | their careers. |
| 1:14.2 | And today's guest knows firsthand what it's like to go viral as a backup quarterback thrust |
| 1:19.2 | into that starting role. |
| 1:20.8 | Last season, he became a jet fan favorite when he threw for 405 yards and three touchdowns |
| 1:26.2 | and upset the Bengals in week 8th. |
| 1:28.3 | He was named the ASC offensive player of the week, and in that win, he became the only |
| 1:32.4 | quarterback in the NFL to throw for 400 yards and three touchdowns in his first career |
| 1:38.1 | start. The jet even sent his jersey to the pro football hall of fame. |
| 1:41.7 | He was drafted in the fifth round by the Cowboys in 2018, |
| 1:45.0 | and he joined the Jets practice squad the following season. |
| 1:47.7 | He was actually the catalyst for my unnatural interest in backup quarterbacks |
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