Well, that's new school reasoning...   If we would have used that back in 1983, our beloved JE would have had to start selling cars(used) much sooner, and without the "BADGE"...  Steve Deberg started out the season 4 and 1 after relinquishing the position to JFE who went on to finish the season with a record of 4 and 6(also lining up once under the guard(we all remember)).  Now we were still in the playoffs with a record of 9 and 6(Kubiak won 1 game(Kubiak became a Broncos star).  Elway finished his season against KC 13 of 34 with 4 int's and no TD's.....  Deberg got the start against Seattle in the playoff game giving way to Elway after Seattle had locked up the Win...
Thank God we didn't use that reasoning back then!!!