In game QB changes

Eddie Jurak

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One of the crazy things in the Belichick Pats era is how few in game QB there have been - and most of those were injury related.

If you exclude garbage time changes, there have only been 8 or 9 QB changes in Belichick's entire time with the Pats.

2022:
  • Zappe for Mac (healthy)
  • Zappe for Hoyer (injury)
2020:
  • Stidham for Hoyer (healthy, though Hoyer was subbing for the Covid-19 afflicted Newton)
2016:
  • Brisset for Garoppolo (injury)
2008:
  • Cassel for Brady (injury)
2005:
  • Cassel for Brady* (healthy, but arguably this was a sort of garbage time; it was the final game of the season and Brady played one quarter and then sat out)
2001:
  • Brady for Bledsoe (injury)
  • Bledsoe for Brady (injury - AFCCG)
2000:
  • Friesz for Bledsoe (injury? I don;t remember BB benching Bledsoe during his first year, so I assume injury related)
Obviously there weren't going to be a lot of these given Brady, but it still seems remarkable how few there were.