Former Dallas Cowboys head coach Bill Parcells once said, “It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.”
For years, the Cowboys struggled to find a backup much like Parcells did. The team went through the likes of Matt Cassel, Kellen Moore, and Cooper Rush, over the course of five years. Yeah, not great. Dallas decided not to invest virtually anything in the backup quarterback spot, all but assuring their season would be over if the starter went down.