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Few teams willing to gamble on new starters

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

There are three times as many NFL teams currently hunting for backup quarterbacks as there are teams seeking new starters. Somewhere in that extraordinary fact is a message. We're just having trouble deciphering it. The conventional perception is that the league is anything but rich at the quarterback position. Haven't we heard for years that there is a dearth of so-called "franchise" quarterbacks? So bashed has the position been the past several seasons that, given the forced mindset that ha ...

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