Consistently Inconsistent: Potential QB Controversies Heading into ’09

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Published: May 12, 2009

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... that there could only be, say, 32 firemen.

Or 32 marine biologists...

Or 32 plumbers...

On second thought, we probably don't want to imagine the kind of resulting catastrophe if there were only 32 plumbers in the entire world, but, if you can use your imagination nonetheless, you have an idea of the kind of odds a professional quarterback is facing.

It's already an uphill battle just to make it far enough as a quarterback to draw the attention of the NFL, but once you're there, only 32 starting jobs exist.

And that's when the real pressure begins, because when the most competitive league in professional sports has a regular season consisting of just 16 games, there's not a lot of time for growing pains, unless you have the patient luxury of being a multi-million dollar draft pick.

For the rest of the signal-callers, they're often stuck at the end of a leash barely lasting a month into an NFL season.

While the sh...

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