Is Florida really about to deploy dreaded two-QB strategy?

If you're playing two quarterbacks, you've really got no quarterbacks. That's the conventional wisdom in football circles, and outside of the high school level, it generally tends to hold true.

And that's got to be the scary part for Florida head coach Billy Napier as he fights for his job every weekend.

The Gators beat Samford, 45-7, this past weekend while freshman quarterback DJ Lagway got the start in replacement of senior Graham Mertz, who was out with a concussion he suffered in Week 1's loss to Miami.

Mertz should be back this weekend against Texas A&M, if not next against Mississippi State, but Napier recently revealed that he's not expecting Mertz to be the end-all,-be-all at quarterback anymore, even when the veteran is back and healthy

“I think our intention the entire time has been to play DJ in every game,” Napier said, according to On3 . “Obviously, he gets a little bit more experienced each week. And certainly, for him to have the opportunity to be the starter, prepare with the ones and then go play, and the way he did that — the poise, the composure — I just think it shows that he’s ready to do what we intend to do with him going forward."

It's one thing to play the backup quarterback in a blowout or against an obviously weaker opponent like Samford, but is Napier really planning on running a two-quarterback system against the likes of Tennesee, Georgia, Texas, LSU and Ole Miss?

It sounds like it.

“It’s a blessing to have two really good quarterbacks and certainly one with a ton of experience and one without," Napier said, per On3. "But there’s no doubt both these guys will make us harder to defend. We intend to use both of them."

He's hyping up the strategy right now, but if the Gators don't have one quarterback good enough (or ready enough) to start and play a whole game, an already tough season may get even tougher.