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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.pretty sure its edelmanI mean, who's the non-QB who'd take snaps if all 2 or 3 (as the case may be) were injured in the same game? It used to be Faulk, then Troy, then ... uh, who was it after Troy?
pretty sure its edelman
Do you have any basis for thinking that other than the fact that it seems to make sense?
edelman is also really cool...that better?
This isn't sand lot football...one doesn't JUST step up and play without a lot of preparation...I can remember in the past..Troy even had a series in a preseason game. IF they do intend to go with only 2 QBs..Faulk OR Edelman will be getting plenty of reps in practice...just in case. This isn't fantasy football where one can easily place players in and out... My thoughts are that they will have a third QB by the first game.If both get knocked out, then Faulk or Edelman can step in until someone else gets aboard. Right now, with everything else going on, i think we'll be fine with the two QB's on the roster.
This isn't sand lot football...one doesn't JUST step up and play without a lot of preparation...I can remember in the past..Troy even had a series in a preseason game. IF they do intend to go with only 2 QBs..Faulk OR Edelman will be getting plenty of reps in practice...just in case. This isn't fantasy football where one can easily place players in and out... My thoughts are that they will have a third QB by the first game.
pretty sure its edelman
I'm not sure if people realize that there's actually a technical designation of "Emergency QB" that allows teams to have 46 players on the game day roster instead of 45.
The rules state that the Emergency QB can't play until the 4th Quarter - if he does the #1 and #2 QB are done for the day and can't return to the game.
That's not a huge problem normally - the 3rd string QB is often the Emergency QB - but for that reason Edelman is the LAST guy you'd want with that designation, because chances are BB would be looking to use him in other situations well before the 4th quarter.
If anything you'd make Hoyer the Emergency QB, knowing that he can't come in until the 4th quarter of a blowout (perfectly fine with all of us!). If Brady were injured and BB felt Hoyer were a major upgrade over Edelman I'm sure he'd put Hoyer in before the 4th Quarter and just roll the dice that Hoyer isn't going to be injured.
If the nature of this question is "who is the 3rd and 4th string QB" that's a different question completely - but the Emergency QB (46th player on the roster) likely wouldn't be Edelman, nor Faulk as I tend to think that Belichick might want to use Faulk sometime before the 4th quarter as well.
I'm not sure if people realize that there's actually a technical designation of "Emergency QB" that allows teams to have 46 players on the game day roster instead of 45.
The rules state that the Emergency QB can't play until the 4th Quarter - if he does the #1 and #2 QB are done for the day and can't return to the game.
That's not a huge problem normally - the 3rd string QB is often the Emergency QB - but for that reason Edelman is the LAST guy you'd want with that designation, because chances are BB would be looking to use him in other situations well before the 4th quarter.
If anything you'd make Hoyer the Emergency QB, knowing that he can't come in until the 4th quarter of a blowout (perfectly fine with all of us!). If Brady were injured and BB felt Hoyer were a major upgrade over Edelman I'm sure he'd put Hoyer in before the 4th Quarter and just roll the dice that Hoyer isn't going to be injured.
If the nature of this question is "who is the 3rd and 4th string QB" that's a different question completely - but the Emergency QB (46th player on the roster) likely wouldn't be Edelman, nor Faulk as I tend to think that Belichick might want to use Faulk sometime before the 4th quarter as well.
The poster was I believe interested to know who would take over the QB position if both were injured.. Clearly neither of the two would be the 46th player...BUT would be the player that would fill in an emergency. The use of an emergebcy QB as an inactive player hives the team a 46th active player BUT only by the guidelines.
Yes...very true..but he would need that designation I believe...and yes..in an odd scenario once the Emergenxy QB is in...before the 4th, the other two QBs are gone.Right.
However, come to think of it -- if the emergency QB in my sense happened to be inactive, he could still be listed as the 46th player and hence available for worst-case scenarios.
By the way, you always have at least two legit QBs active on game day, just in case Brady has to sit out a play or two and then is able to come back in. If his backup were the 46th player, and this happened prior to Q4, Brady wouldn't be allowed back in ...
Yes...very true..but he would need that designation I believe...and yes..in an odd scenario once the Emergenxy QB is in...before the 4th, the other two QBs are gone.
Right.
However, come to think of it -- if the emergency QB in my sense happened to be inactive, he could still be listed as the 46th player and hence available for worst-case scenarios.
By the way, you always have at least two legit QBs active on game day, just in case Brady has to sit out a play or two and then is able to come back in. If his backup were the 46th player, and this happened prior to Q4, Brady wouldn't be allowed back in ...
Given that the emergency QB rule is as it is, why list Edelman as a QB at all?
Given that the emergency QB rule is as it is, why list Edelman as a QB at all?