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What Ryan Finley’s Early Success Does and Doesn’t Mean for the Bengals

It happens every year somewhere in the NFL. A relatively unknown backup quarterback outplays an established starter in the preseason and Twitter explodes with people proclaiming the backup should start when the games count, or something close to that. See the tweet below that was a reply to a tweet from Hall of Famer Kurt Warner where he gave Finley a small shoutout. Notice the engagement it got.

Ryan Finley is looking really good. Dalton should be looking over his shoulder.

There were also tweets that took things a step further.

Stuff like this is why 99.