Vandyr
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He was a journeyman. Being unknown doesn't make a guy who had never gotten an NFL start in the 6 years he has been out of college a good QB. And realistically, the reason the Cowboys stayed close wasn't because the offense was stellar with Gilbert, it was because the defense had a surprisingly strong game. The offense likely would have scored more than 19 points with Dak at QB.
To be fair, Gilbert didn't look bad in that game. But my point about him being an unknown quantity for the Steelers was that they couldn't really gameplan for him the way they could going up against established QB's, such as Dak for instance.