It's a metaphor...

[bLACKpANTHER]

If the NFL was an old school 80s-90s arcade game - the $0.25 coin to start the game is a playoff caliber QB.. period
If you don't have any coins - you can only watch the high scores roll by & pretend you are playing the game during the arcade's intro video..

We don't have a playoff caliber QB right now, obviously.. we had one and probably have only had 3-4 over the franchise's history.. this just made me realize that IF you are lucky enough to have one - you drop that coin into the machine and play off that 1 coin as long as you possibly can.. we still had some extra lives off that last coin but we just walked away from machine..

Now, we are just like all those broke kids - on the sticky soda soaked floor, on our hands & knees hoping to find something shinny under all the machines and checking the coin slots of other arcades.. we WILL find a coin sooner or later.. hopefully sooner, but we will probably have to go back home (the draft) and find one in the couch cushions or smash our piggy bank open.. but when we do find one - we better truly cherish that ish..