It's one of the great truisms of professional football that the backup quarterback is the most popular guy in town. This is because the backup quarterback represents hope, change, the belief that one minor switch can reverse a season that's rapidly heading south.But the backup QB is like the old quantum physics thought experiment about Schroedinger's cat. Stripping out the details, what you essentially do is construct a situation in which a cat in a box has a precisely 50-50 shot of being dead or alive -- and, for as long as that box is sealed, the cat can be considered both dead AND alive. As soon as you open the box, though, the possibilities all collapse into a single truth: either the cat is dead, or he's alive. The end.Well, the Redskins opened the box last night to see how Todd Collins was doing, and the results were ... mixed.On the one hand: Collins generated six points, which was six points more than the offense came up with in the first half. He completed t...
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Original Story:
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October 18, 2009
