quarterbacking

English

Etymology

From quarterback +‎ -ing.

Noun

quarterbacking (uncountable)

1. (American football) The act of playing as a quarterback
2. (US) The action of making criticisms after the event
   • 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 May 2019:

     Plenty of past seasons’ events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning quarterbacking, but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight.

Verb

quarterbacking

1. present participle and gerund of quarterback