For instance, San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh sent a very capable quarterback in Alex Smith to the bench then to the Kansas City Chiefs because he saw something special in Kaepernick.
Pennington, 26, acknowledged that the development that began during the team's off-season workouts, when he took all the snaps while Testaverde recovered from foot surgery, had finally resulted in his blossoming into a self-assured, capable quarterback.
And he made a case that if Pennington really is the Jets' quarterback of the future, Lucas could be a capable starting quarterback somewhere else.
But if the Dolphins can oblige their opponents to stack up all their resources against Ajayi, then Ryan Tannehill is a capable enough quarterback to exploit a sparse secondary.
They have been constructed over more than a decade to enhance what Manning does: because he had never missed a game, they paid little attention to having a capable backup quarterback; the running game was subjugated to the pass; the defense was built to play with a lead because the Colts almost always had one.
The Philadelphia Eagles, McNabb's former team, showed they still have capable quarterbacks.
Ballyhooed as a capable, big-armed quarterback from the University of Oregon, Smith looked lost under center.
He'd been a star high-school quarterback as well, and a capable shooting guard, attracting interest from college football and basketball coaches before he chose to pursue baseball exclusively.
Despite the disappointing conclusion to the season, quarterback Marc Bulger emerged as a capable leader throwing for 2,465 yards and 14 touchdowns.
The ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit, a former Ohio State quarterback and a teammate of Fickell's for a year, said that if the true freshman quarterback Braxton Miller proved to be a capable playmaker, the Buckeyes had enough talent to make the inaugural Big Ten championship game.
