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Thompson is taking huge gamble
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August 20, 2008 at
9:18PM CST
BY GERY WOELFEL
It was one thing for Packers general manager Ted Thompson to have traded Brett Favre, who was the team’s best player last season. It was quite another thing for Thompson not to have protected his club by obtaining another veteran quarterback. Or, so it seems. As it stands, the Packers will go into the regular season with the scary proposition of having three quarterbacks who have never started a single NFL game. They are starting Aaron Rodgers, who had been Favre’s infrequently used backup, Brian Brohm, who is a rookie, and Matt Flynn, who is a rookie. Is Thompson’s decision to go with three untested QBs a recipe for disaster? Maybe. Maybe not. According to Alex Stern of the Elias Sports Bureau in New York, only two teams since 2001 have entered the NFL regular season without a quarterback who has started at least one regular season game on their roster. They were the 2001 Carolina Panthers and the 2006 San Diego Chargers. They each had radically different seasons. The quarterbacks on the Panthers’2 opening-game roster were Chris Weinke, Dameyune Craig and Matt Lytle. The Panthers went on to post an abysmal 1-15 record. The quarterbacks on the Chargers’2 opening-game roster were Philip Rivers and Charlie Whitehurst. The Chargers wound up with a sterling 14-2 regular-season record before losing in the first round to the New England Patriots 24-21. Suffice to say, it’ll be interesting to see how Thompson’s big-time gamble turns out.
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