And I can't tell you how comforting that thought is to almost everyone on this board.
I can't tell you how funny these "Oh, I'm so worried about what will happen if Brady goes down" comments over and over again. Well why don't you ask what will happen to the Packers if Rogers goes down, or Bears if Cutler goes down, or the Broncos if Manning goes down, etc, etc etc.
We thought we were smarter than them...
Tell me DI back in 2009 when BB not only went with only 2 QBs on the roster the one he picked was an UDFA. I'm gonna bet you were worried about that all season. Or how about back in 2008 when the unthinkable DID happen, especially after Cassell had a preseason worse than anything Hoyer or Mallet put up. Remember the calls for Gutts. Or lets go back to 2001 How many here were all in a sweat when we found out that BB was going to have some 6th round nobody back up Drew Bledsoe.
Why can't it be some guy with some upside at least like Micael Bishop.
Probably not as much as he is now because they kept a kid who could run the offense out of the gate. And they cut two guys who couldn't. I can tell you that in 2008 DI was fine as was I and a handful of idiots who had stated all along Cassel was fine and his pre season performance had more to do with a struggling team. And in 2001 the nobody who had already passed Bledsoe on the depth chart was backed up by the quite expensive and highly sought after former Dolphin Damon Huard.
I'll tell you a little secret, but you have to promise not to tell a soul, because this is really super secret inside stuff. The kind of info it takes years to accumulate. This is the kind of knowledge that you have to go far and wide to find out. OK? So here it is.
If you have a franchise level QB and he gets hurt..... YOU ARE F##CKED!
Yeah, like in 2008...
Now don't tell anyone, because if this got out to the masses, people would be in shock.
All there is left is to do the best you can, and whether it was Brian Hoyer or Ryan Mallet its not likely to get you to the superbowl (though if you are the Patriots, you still will win a lot of games.)
BOTTOM LINE - If left with the prospect of playing with a back up QB, I'm pretty sure I'm ready to go with the guy BB felt was best suited for the job. you know I hear he has a pretty good track record for replacing injured QB's.