NFL Week 16: I knew Scott Zolak wore this number, and that's just sad.

you don't understand -- ryan obviously determined from the beginning that, when healthy, tebow woud be the no. 2 qb, to placate the owner. where he was inexplicably stupid was in not even dressing mcelroy as the no. 3 as his safety precaution in case sanchez sustained an in-game injury. in that case he would've been forced to play tebow. dress mcelroy as no. 3 you could go right to him to replace an injured sanchez.

you're absolutely correct that not even dressing mcelroy in jax made absolutely no sense. ryan innvented some cockamamie excuse about mcknight experiencing migraines as the reason he ran out of roster spots. his explanation has never made sense to anyone.

 

The more I look at it, the more I think Rex's entire goal was to avoid the situation Denver had when they finally said "Fuck it, fans, here's your hero" and then he KEPT WINNING. If Tebow played and lost, the Jets would have been fine with that, but no way did they want him to win and then they have to go through what Elway went through last year.

There's no earthly way they could have thought for the last two months that Sanchez gave them a chance in hell.

 

Maybe it is no more complicated than the simply doesn't believe he can play.

 

Then he would have gone to McElroy at some point. You can't just play 14 games with a quarterback like that.

But he had to keep QB #1 in because maybe you wanted to try QB #3 but you couldn't skip over QB #2, and plus what if you try QB #3 and he sucks so bad that you can't leave him in either and now you've opened the door to QB #2 being the only remaining option?

 

Maybe, but I think it is a case of Ryan being a stubborn mule and hoping Sanchez would at least play to the level that allowed his team to go to 2 AFC championship games. Not that Sanchez was the main factor in that but some coaches get blind spots for players.

 

Bad QBs that wore #16?

Steve F'n Pelleur!

 

What's hilarious is that there are decisions to be made at some numbers about who was worse. Cade McNown lost out to Avellini too.

 

What? We're off point here?

 

Avellini and McNown wore different numbers and both got their own threads. I have veered from the former Bears angle a couple times. I suppose I could have used Blanda, but he's a Hall of Famer, and that would be wildly off point.

 

Did I miss the McNown thread? I can't imagine that.

Craig Krenzel would have been a solid choice this week.

 

It was called Cade McNown's Parking Spot. Hard to miss.

 

Ok, that jogs the memory. That's right, I think Vince Evans was determined to be way too good.