Re: Trent Dilfer

>> Off the top of my head, I would have to go with maybe George Blanda as best
>> backup QB ever to play the game, although I'm sure if I had the time I
>could
>> come up with dozens of better backup QB's than Trent Dilfer.  Hell, I'd
>take
>> Terry Hanratty over Trent Dilfer, and Hanratty's pushing sixty.
>
>Off the top of my head and in no particular order, Frank Reich, Neil
>O'Donnell, Don Strock, Earl Morrell, Craig Morton, Chris Chandler and
>Vinny Testaverde are just a few backup QBs I'd rather have over Dilfer.
>I can't imagine anyone seriously thinking he's the best backup QB ever.

Jeff Hostetler was one of the few backup QB's to step in and take his team to a
SB win.  Doug Williams was the backup in Washington who took over the QB job
from Jay Schroeder and took the Skins to a SB win.  

Gifford Nielsen was a backup who had a hand in what was IMO the biggest playoff
upset in NFL history when the Oilers (with Pastorini and Earl Campbell injured
and not playing) beat the mighty San Diego Chargers in the 1979 AFC Divisional
Playoffs.

In 1976 the 1-4 Steelers turned to QB Mike Kruczek to step in for an injured
Terry Bradshaw and he reeled off five wins in a row until Bradshaw returned. 
He was kind of a one year wonder; never really got a chance to do anything more
than be a backup.



Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man

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proportion to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
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