I think it's quite rare to see the starter-backup distribution be perfectly consistent throughout the season. More often than not, you'll see one guy or the other get the lion's share of starts at different points in the year. Elliott and Johnson ended up at a pretty ideal 45-36 split in starts, but that included Johnson getting almost every start from mid-November to the end of December and Elliott playing almost every game from mid-February on.
Talbot will get a chance to start a chunk in a row at some point, and as long as he doesn't pull an Eddie Lack it'll all balance out.
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