Is two better than one? If it's QBs not always, but Horns might try

It's often said in football that if you play two quarterbacks you don't really have one quarterback you trust.

Texas Longhorns coach Charlie Strong is entertaining a two-QB system to start the 2015 season with Tyrone Swoopes, last season's raw and at times uninspiring starter, and Jerrod Heard, a redshirt freshman whose next snap in an actual game will be his first.

The two are locked in a competition for the starting job. Swoopes maintained his status as the starter through spring drills, but Heard's progress became evident when Strong indicated that he had "closed the gap."

The Longhorns, coming off a 6-7 season with an offense that ranked ninth out of 10 teams in total offense, passing offense and scoring, are pushing a more up-tempo, spread offense that would seem to favor the natural skills of Heard more than Swoopes. But considering how green Heard is, it might make sense to lessen the pressure on him by also playing Swoopes.

Last season, Swoopes was the only Big 12 quarterback to average fewer than 200 passing yards a game.

So can a two-quarterback system work? Is that the right way to go? Are you OK with it?

Longtime Longhorn observer Chip Brown of Horns Digest says he is.

"I'm OK with it, and I'll tell you why. Shawn Watson employed a similar system when Teddy Bridgewater was a freshman at Louisville. Will Stein started the first two games of that 2011 season, and Bridgeweater played the first series of the second quarter in those games to gain experience as Stein's backup.

"And when Stein went down with a shoulder injury in the third start of the 2011 season, the offense was already used to hearing Bridgewater's voice in the huddle during meaningful playing time. Bridgewater, of course, never left the field as Louisville's QB after that."

But everybody might not agree with Mr. Brown. Do you?

(h/t Horns Digest)

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