{"id":380240,"date":"2025-09-19T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/380240\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:30:10","slug":"what-makes-a-good-nfl-backup-qb-and-our-ranking-of-all-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/380240\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good NFL backup QB \u2014 and our ranking of all 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least four NFL starting quarterbacks Sunday can learn a lesson from fictional character Jonathan Moxon.<\/p>\n<p>The Brown University-bound rebel who turned down whipped-cream advances from beautiful women didn\u2019t try to imitate star jock Lance Harbor when Harbor\u2019s injury bumped Moxon from backup quarterback to starter in the high-school football classic \u201cVarsity Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just like Jake Browning shouldn\u2019t try to be Joe Burrow as he steps into a three-month job piloting the undefeated Bengals <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/15\/sports\/bengals-worst-joe-burrow-fears-confirmed-as-star-qb-needs-surgery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">while the MVP hopeful Burrow recovers from toe surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s done it before \u2014 come off the bench and won games [4-3 in 2023]. So those guys know they need to raise their level of play to help him out, but they also know they can win with him,\u201d Jim Miller, co-host of SiriusXM NFL Radio\u2019s \u201cMovin\u2019 the Chains,\u201d told The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least four NFL starting quarterbacks Sunday can learn a lesson from fictional character Jonathan Moxon. The Brown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,1763,227,256,2296,7,294,6,13835,9,3248,11863],"class_list":{"0":"post-380240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-carson-wentz","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","12":"tag-cincinnatibengals","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-kirk-cousins","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-nfl-playbook","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus","19":"tag-tyrod-taylor"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115230973906524837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380240","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=380240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}