From the Vikings to the Jets, assessing the open QB situations
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Eight or so teams enter the 2026 NFL season with an open quarterback situation, depending on your definition of "open." Which one of those is the best? Which one is the worst? How do the rest fill in between those? Dan Pizzuta joins Derrik Klassen to discuss the Vikings, Jets and all the rest on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Derek Klasson. |
| 0:06.0 | Robert is in South America right now. |
| 0:08.1 | Dave is over in Europe right now. |
| 0:10.0 | So we've got me hosting the show. |
| 0:11.6 | And today we're going to talk about some of the open seats on the quarterback carous. |
| 0:15.6 | So I think we both on this show, in other shows, later this off season even, We talk about a lot of the quarterbacks that are on the market. |
| 0:22.3 | Maybe don't spend enough time talking about what is actually the quality of these places that these quarterbacks are, |
| 0:27.8 | potentially going to get moved to where would they want to go, what kinds of quarterbacks are going to end up in these spots. |
| 0:32.4 | So we're going to talk about all of that. |
| 0:34.5 | We've got Dan Paisuda as our guest. |
| 0:36.3 | So let's get right into it. |
| 0:46.8 | So every year we get into the off season, we talk about the quarterback carousel. I think that that is a huge topic that everybody's going to want to talk about, especially with having a |
| 0:50.8 | veteran free agent quarterback having just won the Super Bowl. And I think we spend a lot of |
| 0:54.7 | time talking about how good these quarterbacks are. Who is the who's going to be the bell of the ball? |
| 0:59.4 | Who's the best second option? Should teams just go look at guys in the draft? And we maybe sometimes |
| 1:03.9 | don't spend enough time talking about how good are these seats on the quarterback carousel actually. |
| 1:09.4 | And so that's what we're going to do today. |
| 1:36.3 | We're going to talk about a half dozen teams that, in my mind, clearly need to be going after a quarterback. And then at the end, we'll sprinkle in a few teams that are in the maybe category. And here to do that with me today is Dan Paisuda. Dan, how you doing? I'm doing well. How are you? I'm pretty excited. I think, did you have like a particular process that you went through when you were starting to try to rank these teams for this and like looking at, okay, like, who is actually the good teams? |
| 1:40.7 | Who are the good situations I like here? Like, where did you start with some of these and where did you end up? |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, I like loosely like when I went through the teams that we were looking at, |
| 1:51.7 | kind of ranked them by coach and scheme, the receiving talent around them, the offensive line, |
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