The Gamblers took Young #1 overall in the 2023 BDFL Pony Draft and have him in Texans blue

TITLETOWN - The BDFL drafts 48 quarterbacks each season. Three per the 16 teams and frankly the last 8-10 are a stretch. Now consider that 64 different quarterbacks started NFL games during the 2022 season. Not played, but started. This is an average of two quarterbacks per team which is ridiculous. This is the most in NFL history and it screams "crisis". The problem is two-fold. First off, too many young quarterbacks (Fields, Lawrence, Wilson, etc.) are pushed into starting roles way before they are even ready to play in the NFL. Secondly, the NFL has no real, controlled enviroment for quarterback development since NFL Europe was abandoned in 2007. The NFL used to get a few quarterbacks from the Canadian Football League (CFL) that were ready for prime time (Moon, Flutie, Garcia, etc.), but nothing lately of any significance. The Alliance of American Football (AAF) was a bad joke, but provided at least some development of QB talent (Gilbert, Wolford, Woodside, etc.). The new United States Football League (USFL) provided no NFL level talent a year ago and the new XFL has a chance to send a few signal callers (McCarron, Cornelius, Sloter, etc.) to the next level next season, but we'll have to wait to see about that. As you can deduct from the list below, it is high time for the NFL to invest in their own quarterbacks and launch a developmental league for their young draft picks (Lance, Love, Thompson, etc.) and free agent signees (Rush, Blough, Walker, etc.) to get some serious playing time against some serious competition. Therefore, the BDFL is proposing a worldwide NFL D-League to help spread the American game to new "hot" markets ripe for the NFL brand and to help develop better players, mainly quarterbacks who desperately need the experience. Looking forward to this new D-League, think of it as a new NFL Europe type league and recall the quality quarterbacks it developed (Warner, Johnson, Delhomme, etc.) who two went on to win Super Bowls. More to come in Part II of Iron Hand's NFL D-League proposal with eight ready-made markets, team names, etc., but for now just take a look at the record high list of the incompetent and inexperienced quarterbacks who started games in the NFL in 2022. This list does not count perriniel NFL back-ups (McCoy, Minshew, Smith, etc.), former washed-up NFL starters (Mayfield, Flacco, Trubisky, Dalton, Winston, etc.), NFL journeymen (Bridgewater, Foles, Mariota, etc.), second year starters (Wilson, Jones, Mills, etc.), and a couple of proven rookie starters (Pickett and Purdy) who all also started NFL games this season. This is a real epidemic and it needs a real vaccine.

Quarterbacks who started NFL games in 2022

Isiah "Ferdie" Pacheco was the most active player in the BDFL's WORM Hole last season