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Not many backup plans at QB

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Monday, September 18, 2006

Over the final 16 weeks of the 2005 season, there were 48 quarterback changes in the NFL, three per week, and nearly half of those were by choice, not attrition. Twenty-two times in '05, double the average for the previous five seasons, coaches opted to switch starting quarterbacks because of poor performance. The trend began early, with Mark Brunell replacing Patrick Ramsey at halftime of the Washington Redskins' season opener, and it didn't abate, as there was at least one starting quarterba ...

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