nfl playbook Ryan Dunleavy How to survive in NFL with a backup QB — and who has it By Ryan Dunleavy Published Sep. 25, 2026, 12:10 p.m. ET Charles Wenzelberg/NY Post Imagine you are trying to follow an easy five-step recipe, only to discover that you don’t have some of the ingredients.
To make matters worse, there is nowhere to acquire them for the next few months other than to overpay in a trade with a neighbor.
What can you do other than hope there’s a way to make an edible dinner — chicken salad, anyone? — with what’s available?
With at least three backup quarterbacks set to start this weekend — the Giants’ Jameis Winston, the Commanders’ Marcus Mariota and the Bears’ No. 2 Tyson Bagent (concussion protocol) or No. 3 Case Keenum — plus the possibilities that the Seahawks’ Drew Lock plays a third straight game and that the Falcons already are finished because of a backup quarterback mess, The Post cooked up the Recipe for Survival.
