Backups get almost no reps, if any, in practice. And they can t ask questions in meetings. I ve suggested having a backup quarterback coach. These guys still have to play. Instead of having a guy as the third-stringer, like Daunte Culpepper is in Minnesota, send them to go play.
Guys have to play.
It s like the point I made about Peyton Manning of Indianapolis and Charlie Batch of Detroit. Their team kind of plays them, and they stumble around in their first year and then the teams start to reap the benefits in the second year. But if they re not going to get in, you have to send them somewhere. They have to play them, and at some point they are going to see things. That s the thing with quarterbacks, you can practice and watch film and talk to them and do stuff up on the chalkboard, but they have to see it on the field and experience it.