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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Truman" data-source="post: 233241" data-attributes="member: 1168">I am old enough to remember the Craig Morton/Roger Staubach quarterback controversy in Dallas.  The year was 1971.  Landry decided to start Morton and Staubach in alternating games.  Then, in the ninth game against the Chicago Bears, during the days when coaches did not have radio contact with quarterbacks and shuttled plays into the huddle through players, Landry actually alternated quarterbacks on each play.  The Cowboys lost that game and were 5-4 at the time.  Landry then decided to go with Staubach, and the team went on a 5-game winning streak to finish out the season and beat Miami in the Super Bowl.The alternating quarterback routine might work for a team on the downward slide or in rebuilding mode.  But it would be hard to manage on a contending team, except in obvious situations (injury, big lead, big deficit, meaningless end of year game, season lost for whatever reason).</blockquote>

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