For teams without a playoff pedigree, however, a quarterback change can turn good streaks into bad ones.
The Patriots can be offered as exhibit A in a case for making a quarterback change.
In those other seasons, Walton refused to make a quarterback change.
Often, quarterback changes are made when a team is losing, or when the new young gun has to be tested for the future.
That brought up the weekly question of whether Handley might make a quarterback change.
A quarterback change won't much help a defense that has been burned for 25.8 points a game (45 in a loss to Cincinnati).
The quarterback change was not the only issue being digested in the Giants' locker room this morning.
He came back, but produced none of the sparks Walton had sought in making the quarterback change.
We'll have to do a more in-depth analysis of it tomorrow, but I really don't anticipate a quarterback change at the present time.
Graham said no one had talked to him about a quarterback change.