...it looks like JT O'Sullivan will be the one in his place dodging the bullets.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090305/SPT02/903050351/1066

Yay or nay?

BMN

JT O'Sullivan got some work last year when the 49ers decided that Alex Smith is the BUST that he is. O'Sullivan is experienced and probably CHEAPER than the other guys on the market right now. So, I'll say what the hell. Backups are backups because they're backups. They don't have to be world beaters. Just step in when the starter is injured for a game or two. Big deal.





"So he got fired? Big deal. It's happened to the best of us. So he got kicked out of his house by his 400 lb'ed wife?!?!? That's probably better for him anyways."-OldSchooler on ChrisMBHater's absence

My thought is that without CP we really have no chance of winning anything anyway, so it doesn't really matter who the back up is. A good backup would be nice if CP goes out for 1 or 2 games, anything longer than that and we are screwed. As far as backups go we could have done worse.

The scarier part of that paragraph...

"If O'Sullivan falls through, Rex Grossman will visit today and J.P. Losman might follow."

"The American Cancer Society says uninsured patients are 60 percent more likely to die within five years of their diagnosis."

He's gotta be better than this O'Sullivan guy. He took a team to the Super Bowl. He's got a rocket arm, and had absolutely no receivers. I take Grossman in a minute IF the Bungs ever had an offensive line. Grossman does not evade the rush all that well. So since I know our OL sucks and probably always will, I guess I take this all back.

Nevermind!

I would have much rather seen Grossman or Losman as the back-up. O'Sullivan is extra awful. Bad signing in my mind.

Later,
BFITO

My first pick would be Rex.

He had very little to work with in chicago and still managed to be a decent starter.

JT is not that bad of a second option either.

Anything is an upgrade from Rainman.


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Rex would have been an interesting backup.

By the transitive properties, I think he would have been addition by subtraction by addition.

At his best, he's a quarterback that got mediocre-to-decent results out of a less-than-mediocre offense.

At his worst, he's a reckless gunslinger, abandoning a solid game plan to throw it this way and that.

But the Bengals never have a solid gameplan, so if Rex stood in for Carson, it would have opened things up......if not by accident :-p.

BMN