Name That Backup AFC QB
The Valenti Show
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4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Rico go through some backup QBs in the NFL and which they'd like to see with the Lions.
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| 0:00.0 | A Michigan quarterback battle coming into focus. We talked about it and asked what the floor for the team is. |
| 0:08.4 | Hour 2, a little bit of college football and just some news. |
| 0:13.0 | Mike Gundy had a couple of things to say yesterday and it really struck a chord with me. |
| 0:17.6 | And what we're about to do here is something a little different. |
| 0:20.9 | There is nothing that gets more airtime on this station that should get less than the backup |
| 0:27.1 | quarterback spot for your Detroit Lions. |
| 0:29.2 | I think the four of us here in this room are a line that if anything happens to |
| 0:33.4 | Jared Gough your season's over and I and I don't mean from ever winning a game I |
| 0:38.8 | mean you're not winning a Super Bowl. |
| 0:40.5 | Gough Healthy Super Bowl. Gough Not, Game Over. |
| 0:44.0 | That it doesn't matter who you would have signed. |
| 0:47.0 | You're not winning the Super Bowl. |
| 0:49.0 | You're not moving forward. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, in this town and on this station, I mean backup quarterback talk is |
| 0:56.5 | unbelievable. People screaming to the hilltops. Who needs to be the backup? |
| 1:01.2 | Well, we said, you know what, let's have some fun. So David has been kind enough to put together a list. |
| 1:07.0 | We're going to go around the room, and we're going to see if any of you hyenas can name backup quarterbacks. This shows you how little this means in the grand scheme. |
| 1:19.6 | That when you are a Super Bowl team, if you can't name these players you covet, then why do you covet |
| 1:26.0 | them? You love the idea of a great backup quarterback, but the actuality is there aren't any. |
| 1:35.0 | And if you signed one and paid one, it means your starter is not that good. |
| 1:39.0 | And that would cost you a player like a Carleton Davis or like a DJ reader. |
| 1:45.0 | You paying your backup 9, 10, 11 million dollars. |
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