I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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This is the Athletics Football Show.

Hey everybody, I'm Kaylyn Kaeler, a Miss Senior NFL writer for the Athletics.

Welcome to KB2, the show where we talk to only my favorite players in football, the Backup Quarterbacks.

The backups are rarely in the spotlight. But here on KB2 we celebrate them and we give them their moment to share their knowledge and stories with us.

KB2 is also a very loose term because these guys in this role are regularly shifting up and down and up and down the depth chart as their careers go on.

And today's guest knows that roller coaster very, very well as a high school senior who was the number one quarterback in the nation yet 18 Division one offers but after to maltress college experience he went undrafted.

He signed with the pad panthers is the undrafted free agent in 2018 and while he was there he ended up starting 13 games for injured Cam Newton and Taylor Heinecke.

He became a big story in 2019 when he won four straight games in relief of care. He started four more games as a member of the Washington football team and he's now in his fifth NFL season his first in Houston, backing up Davis Mills. Welcome to the show Kyle Allen.

So the long intro right there. That's a long story. You got it pretty good. Thanks for having me.

Listen, you've had a long career. You know, it's you know in terms of years not that long, but a lot has happened in that time.

Yeah, a lot. Yeah. So as I mentioned in sort of the intro, the title of the show, QB2, it's loose right.

You know, you are QB2 right now. You've been a QB one in the past. You probably will be a QB one again at some point in your future.

So I've had guys that have approached to do the show who have said no because they don't view themselves as backups that they just don't even like the term QB2.

I'm curious for you right now at this point in your career. Like how do you see yourself? How would you describe, you know, what your, you know, your career in this moment?

I mean, it's kind of interesting. You say that. I mean, I've been QB four. I'm going to QB three. I've been one. I've been two. I mean, it's just the seasons of life.

Like you're in different spots. You're in different scenarios. Like right now, I'm the QB two. And I think right now my job is to be ready when it's my time to play and to help Davis a young, really talented quarterback, get ready to play on Sunday.

And I think each team in each situation you're in, you have a certain job title that's not really on paper, but you know what you got to do to help the team win.

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