First recorded in 1940–45
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Therapy may help you with this Monday morning quarterback.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2025
Do you ever play Monday morning quarterback with records that don’t work?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024
"One doesn't want to be a Monday morning quarterback on that," he said.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2020
“If you’re playing Monday morning quarterback, you say why don’t you run the clock out and then score,” Luck said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2016
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said it's easy for critics to "play Monday morning quarterback" on the training program's slow progress.
From US News ● Sep. 16, 2015
“It’s very easy to Monday-morning quarterback and sit on the couch and tell us what we should have done now that the thing has happened,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025
“It’s always easy to sit back and Monday-morning quarterback a case,” he said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
It’s easy to Monday-morning quarterback these things, though, and to be fair to the Post, not only is the unstoppable apparatus top secret, Parscale is a notoriously prickly interview.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2019
“I really think it is easy to Monday-morning quarterback judges as we are making decisions that have more context,” she said, staring at a Post reporter taking notes in the courtroom.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2016
He said it “would generally be inappropriate” to act as a Monday-morning quarterback on that case.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2014
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