# McCown's Playing Ability

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccowns-playing-ability/641545>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 19, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccowns-playing-ability/641545 "2012-11-19T22:07:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccowns-playing-ability/641545/1 "2012-11-19T22:07:29Z")

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The Bears rehired McKeown, the back-up QB who was with them in training but not kept. Where has he been in the interim? Is there a training squad he could’ve been on? Was he playing semi-pro to keep in shape and ready?

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**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccowns-playing-ability/641545/2 "2012-11-19T22:37:31Z")

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It’s Josh McCown. And he was out of football and coaching quarterbacks at Marvin Ridge High School in Charlotte North Carolina. He apparently kept himself in good enough shape to get a contract from the Bears, but he wasn’t, as far as I could find, playing any semi-pro ball.