Ranking the backups: Geno at 3, EJ at 29

[YoloinOhio]

http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/bob-glauber-s-nfl-backup-quarterback-rankings-for-2016-1.12168590

 

EJ behind some QBs who have never played a regular season snap

 

Tolzein is ahead of him! Lmaoooo that guy

Edited August 14, 2016 by YoloinOhio

[Wayne Arnold]

Won't click the link. That's a pathetic joke.

[ExWNYer]

That's a really sad list of QBs but there in no way in God's green Earth that Geno Smith is #3.

[Solomon Grundy]

http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/bob-glauber-s-nfl-backup-quarterback-rankings-for-2016-1.12168590

EJ behind some QBs who have never played a regular season snap

Tolzein is ahead of him! Lmaoooo that guy

REALLY??? Do I really have to quote Bill Tobin on this one!! Bob Glauber. What a joke of a list.

[Leroi]

Seems fair. If EJ plays, we lose (period)

 

He'd probably rank better with the 3s, where his skill set is more appropriate.

 

Cardele will take the back up reigns soon enough.

 

 

Imo

[GunnerBill]

Lord alive. Geno sucks. EJ is definitely better than him. I will look at the list and do my own ranking.

[/dev/null]

Did they really rank EJ behind Matt Cassel

 

That list was a waste of time

[YoloinOhio]

EJ is something like 6-10 as a starter but at least he's won games. Not sure how many games some of these guys have even started. He's clearly not good enough to start but 29th in the league as a backup is odd.

[GunnerBill]

Okay I've reacquainted myself with all the NFL backups....

 

It breaks down into 4 categories for me - Good backups who will keep you around .500 or maybe better; Serviceable guys that can keep you competitive in games and can win if everything is right around them; Guys you can't win with; Guys who haven't played. So:

 

Good Backups

 

1. Colin Kaepernick

2. Brian Hoyer

3. Josh McCown

4. Derek Anderson

5. AJ McCarron

6. Nick Foles

 

Serviceable

 

​7. Matt Moore

8. Drew Stanton

9. Colt McCoy

10. Shaun Hill

11. Mike Glennon

12. Case Keenum

13. Landry Jones

14. EJ Manuel

15. Ryan Mallett

16. Luke McCown

 

Bad Backups

 

17. Chad Henne

18. Geno Smith

19. Matt Schaub

20. Matt Cassel

21. Brandon Weeden

22. Matt McGloin

23. Kellen Clemmens

24. Dan Orlovsky

25. Scott Tolzien

 

Unranked

 

- Jimmy Garoppolo

- Chad Daniels

- Ryan Nassib

- Trevone Boykin

- Dak Prescott

- Brett Hundley

- Trevor Siemian

 

 

That has EJ 14/25 of those ranked and many of those unranked teams may well feel better about their guy so somewhere around 20th overall feels instinctively right to me but hard to be definitive on guys who have never taken a regular season snap in anger.

Edited August 14, 2016 by GunnerBill

[yungmack]

That's a really sad list of QBs but there in no way in God's green Earth that Geno Smith is #3.

It's from Newsday. Long Island, ya know?

[Kemp]

I would love if the Bills got Geno for EJ.

 

Geno has much better throwing accuracy than EJ, but has been terrible at reading coverages. You can get better at reading coverages. It's much harder to become a more accurate thrower..

[GunnerBill]

I would love if the Bills got Geno for EJ.

 

Geno has much better throwing accuracy than EJ, but has been terrible at reading coverages. You can get better at reading coverages. It's much harder to become a more accurate thrower..

You can't learn if you are not smart. Geno is not smart.

[The Wiz]

I would love if the Bills got Geno for EJ.

 

Geno has much better throwing accuracy than EJ, but has been terrible at reading coverages. You can get better at reading coverages. It's much harder to become a more accurate thrower..

Watch geno's 2014 week 8 vs the bills lowlights and tell me he was accurate.

 

If you don't want to, here's the result:

Under threw two balls in single coverage and overthrew someone right over the middle. Pulled from the game.

 

2/8 5yd 3int

 

If he were a bill, he'd get the ej treatment.

Edited August 15, 2016 by The Wiz

[Protocal69]

Watch geno's 2014 week 8 vs the bills lowlights and tell me he was accurate.

 

If you don't want to, here's the result:

Under threw two balls in single coverage and overthrew someone right over the middle. Pulled from the game.

 

2/8 5yd 3int

 

If he were a bill, he'd get the ej treatment.

EJ would never have a stat line that bad.

[BobDVA]

after watching several games this weekend, and seeing other teams backups, I do not have a problem with EJ being our backup at all. There are a bunch of terrible backups in this league.

[The Wiz]

EJ would never have a stat line that bad.

Not sure if sarcasm or not but I'll assume it is you are talking about the jags game. Which makes my point for me. Every qb has their worst game at some point in their career and it sticks with them(or more so the fans).

[ExWNYer]

It's from Newsday. Long Island, ya know?

 

That's "Lawn Guy-lend".

 

I would love if the Bills got Geno for EJ.

 

 

Uh, no.

[34-78-83]

Insane article.. Seems randomly chosen. He's in the upper 3rd of backups for sure... One could even argue he's better than a starter out there (Gabbert).

[Protocal69]

Not sure if sarcasm or not but I'll assume it is you are talking about the jags game. Which makes my point for me. Every qb has their worst game at some point in their career and it sticks with them(or more so the fans).

NO I'm dead serious. Yes EJ played bad in the jags game. Ironically in that game he didnt start off that bad. Then the wheels came off and brought the team back. They barley lost. I can take ANY quarterback worst game ever and EJ final stats in the JAG game would be better

[YoloinOhio]

Watch geno's 2014 week 8 vs the bills lowlights and tell me he was accurate.

 

If you don't want to, here's the result:

Under threw two balls in single coverage and overthrew someone right over the middle. Pulled from the game.

 

2/8 5yd 3int

 

If he were a bill, he'd get the ej treatment.

i don't even think that was Geno's worst game