Monday-morning quarterback

plural Monday-morning quarterbacks · alternative Monday morning quarterback

1. USidiomaticSomeone who criticizes with hindsight.

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   Yet some Monday-morning quarterbacks also noted that, just as 1960 was the first TV election and 2016 was the first social-media election, the 2024 Presidential campaign was the first to be conducted largely on live streams and long-form podcasts, media that happen to be thoroughly dominated by MAGA bros.

   2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025

present singular third person Monday-morning quarterbacks · participle present Monday-morning quarterbacking · participle past Monday-morning quarterbacked · past Monday-morning quarterbacked · alternative Monday morning quarterback

1. idiomatictransitiveTo criticize with hindsight.

   We can Monday-morning quarterback the situation and suggest that the large company should have made a counterchallenge.

   2004, William A. Cohen, The Art of the Strategist, American Management Association, →ISBN, page 119

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   Before any show, we "Monday-morning quarterback" the last show. Each man points out his partners' errors, then has to listen to his own.

   1958 January, Jacksel M. Broughton, “I Led the Thunderbirds”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 109, number 1

   Nathan, Dave & Marty, wisely chose to leave the battle strategy to the police, Monday-morning quarterbacking the fray from inside the safety of a cement block restroom building.

   2007, Al Alloway, Treasure in the Park, self-published, →ISBN, page 126