The Aporia · How to survive in NFL with a backup QB

Ryan Dunleavy

72 article(s) here · 1 carrying a prediction

🔮 “I got hit on one of the touchdowns and didn’t know that Jalen [Nailor] scored, but I could hear our Raiders fans,” Cousins added.

2026-11-02 · assertive framing · Raiders fans flip MetLife Stadium into ‘road’ game for Jets: ‘Have to handle it’

🔮 Under different circumstances, the career-best performances by Braelon Allen and Adonai Mitchell could be celebrated as the Jets developing playmakers to complement Garrett Wilson.

2026-11-02 · assertive framing · Jets see no moral victory after wasting career days by Braelon Allen and Adonai Mitchell

🔮 Tanking would make sense — if the Colts hadn’t previously traded their first-round pick to the Jets.

2026-10-30 · assertive framing · Who’s buying, who’s selling and who’s trying to figure things out at NFL trade deadline

🔮 If John Harbaugh were picking between two Michigan-bred quarterbacks this week, the Giants would start J.J. McCarthy over Tom Brady.

2026-10-24 · assertive framing · John Harbaugh makes Tom Brady reference for J.J. McCarthy — but it’s not what you think

🔮 Edmunds will go from logging every defensive snap in the first six games to missing every snap in the final 11, The Post confirmed, after he was injured late in last week’s game against the Saints.

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Tremaine Edmunds out for season in crushing Giants injury blow

🔮 Maybe it’s time for the NFL to change its logo to include a player’s hand punching at the football that sits atop the shield.

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · How ‘Peanut Punch madness’ has running backs spooked, coaches flummoxed and fumbles flooding the NFL

🔮 “Maybe now 20 percent of that 30 that was gone is back,” Nagy said before Thursday’s practice.

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Giants’ Matt Nagy ready to open up playbook for J.J. McCarthy’s first start

🔮 McCarthy’s last pass — on fourth-and-1 from the 14-yard line with 12 seconds remaining — fell incomplete or else the Giants would’ve had a chance to win the game or send it to overtime despite trailing 34-10 when the quarterback change was made with 11:36 to go.

2026-10-21 · assertive framing · Giants to start J.J. McCarthy against Texans in massive QB shakeup

🔮 tRY IT NOW“I would love for us to be in that kind of a circumstance,” Harbaugh said.

2026-10-20 · assertive framing · John Harbaugh waiting for ‘Saquon Barkley circumstance’ in Giants’ embattled running back room

🔮 If J.J. McCarthy was guaranteed to throw for 943 yards, rush for 104 yards and lead 12 scoring drives in his next start, then the Giants wouldn’t have a quarterback controversy on their hands.

2026-10-19 · assertive framing · The questions and stats looming over Giants’ Jameis Winston-J.J. McCarthy decision

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2026-11-01 · New York Post

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Bears ORG · 1× Case Keenum PERSON · 1× Commanders ORG · 1× Drew Lock PERSON · 1× Falcons ORG · 1× Giants ORG · 1× Jameis Winston PERSON · 1× Marcus Mariota PERSON · 1× Seahawks ORG · 1× Tyson Bagent PERSON · 1×

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With at least three backup quarterbacks set to start this weekend — the Giants’ Jameis Winston, the Commanders’ Marcus Mariota and the Bears’ No. 2 Tyson Bagent (concussion protocol) or No. 3 Case Keenum — plus the possibilities that the Seahawks’ Drew Lock plays a third straight game and that the Falcons already are finished because of a backup quarterback mess, The Post cooked up the Recipe for Survival.

framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-25

🔮 With at least three backup quarterbacks set to start this weekend — the Giants’ Jameis Winston, the Commanders’ Marcus Mariota and the Bears’ No. 2 Tyson Bagent (concussion protocol) or No. 3 Case Keenum — plus the possibilities that the Seahawks’ Drew Lock plays a third straight game and that the Falcons already are finished because of a backup quarterback mess, The Post cooked up the Recipe for Survival.

2026-09-25 · New York Post

How to survive in NFL with a backup QB — and who has it · assertive framing

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Imagine you are trying to follow an easy five-step recipe, only to discover that you don’t have some of the ingredients. asserted

you → imagine → ingredients

To make matters worse, there is nowhere to acquire them for the next few months other than to overpay in a trade with a neighbor. asserted

matters → make → neighbor

What can you do other than hope there’s a way to make an edible dinner — chicken salad, anyone? — with what’s available? asserted

what → do → dinner

Post → set → Survival

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