Quote:They have to be being sarcastic, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Wouldn't all teams just play their backup QBs if it worked like that?

It's a thing that can happen - when you've prepared intensively to go up against a certain QB, going up against someone with a very different style of play who you haven't spent time looking at can take a certain amount of adjustment. It isn't a good plan for teams to do it regularly because it's only going to work if it's actually a surprise and if you've got two quarterbacks of a similar skill level. And it shouldn't make the difference between a defence being good and being woeful - it might result in the occasional blown play, but there's no way you can use it as an excuse for, say, a complete inability to tackle.

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