The Giants know how much fun a crowded quarterback room can be, maybe as much as anyone. Back in 1961, \u201cChuckin\u2019\u2009\u201d Charlie Conerly was well entrenched as the team\u2019s QB1, but he was going to turn 40 two days after the season opener against the Cardinals, and could sense the pull of time.<\/p>\n
Then the Giants traded for Y.A. Tittle \u2014 not exactly a kid at 35 \u2014 and for what became a first-place team, first-year coach Allie Sherman let them battle it out for reps. They both played in 13 games. Tittle started 10 of them, went 8-1-1. Conerly started four, and they went 2-2. Together they threw for 40 touchdowns.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like sitting in a room with two geniuses,\u201d Sherman recalled years later. \u201cThese guys had IQs of 10,000 apiece. I thought I was the smartest guy in most rooms when there was a discussion about offense. But when those two talked, all you could do was listen. They helped each other. They battled each other. They fed off each other. It was glorious.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giants know how much misery a crowded quarterback room can be. In 1983, his first year as a head coach, Bill Parcells saw Scott Brunner and Phil Simms play every day in training camp, and he picked Brunner. Eight years later, Ray Handley had two quarterbacks who\u2019d won Super Bowls in that room \u2014 Simms and Jeff Hostetler \u2014 and picked Simms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants know how much fun a crowded quarterback room can be, maybe as much as anyone. Back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,1801,13,1917,56,2321,2469,6,572,9,2833,3248,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-219792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-giants","10":"tag-jameis-winston","11":"tag-jaxson-dart","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-russell-wilson","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114880693473510004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}