A Washington Thanksgiving
The second comic I ever made was about the RG3 trade. RG3 has made a lot of appearances in The Draw Play. The last one was after RG3 dislocated his ankle. I made a comic where he explodes and said “the RG3 experiment might be over”. It now looks like it was. RG3 came back, played two games, and looked completely terrible. Jay Gruden has benched him against the Colts and this past week has been a press disaster, as RG3 threw his team under the bus followed by Gruden pushing him into a blender. RG3 is done in DC. Now Skins fans are arguing amongst themselves about how stupid this benching is while they all curse Dan Snyder.
I see both sides of the benching argument, but I probably side with the benching one. On one hand, RG3 has only played 4 games in the new system, he may simply need more time to adjust and adapt to what Gruden wants of him. Gruden’s system wasn’t as friendly to his skills as it was to Kirk and Colt’s playstyle. But Gruden has been benching and starting QBs willy nilly. First RG3 goes down, then he benches Kirk Cousins, then he benches Colt McCoy for RG3, now he’s benching RG3 for Colt McCoy, who has put on the best show so far in the win over Dallas. Gruden seems very impatient with QBs and while he has nothing to work with, it looks over-reactionary. RG3 might still have value, maybe play him and see if he can improve a bit?
But I don’t agree with that. There have been a lot of rumors RG3 is hard to work with, and Snyder gave him the run of the team even before he had a good rookie season. There appears to be locker room drama, or owner drama, that we aren’t privy to. Bottom line is that Gruden and RG3’s relationship appears impossible to reconcile. Gruden wants to keep his job. RG3 is playing poorly and doesn’t fit his system. He might, however, still have trade value. Why stick him out there, where he might get hurt and tank his value further by sucking more, when you can put the eager and willing Colt McCoy out there, the only QB to win a game he started this season? Against Dallas, no less. RG3 is done in Washington, that much is clear. Don’t risk his trade value, or your job on the possibility that he unscrews himself in 5 games. Send McCoy out there and see what happens.
I don’t know if RG3 will ever be a good player again. I personally don’t have a lot of faith that he will ever be good again.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Lets have a great thanksgiving and hope Mark Sanchez runs into another butt.
The best place for WASQB10 to go so he can go from Bob back to being RG3 is to the team that originally held the #2 pick: St. Louis. Hear me out on this.
He’s not going to have to shoulder the entire burden in St. Louis. They have weapons, as the fact that Shaun Hill, while not good, hasn’t been horrific, should show. The defense is there in spades, the OL has potential, and best of all? Jeff Fisher has experience and skill dealing with locker room headaches like Bob has become. He also has experience working with athletic mobile quarterbacks from his time with McNair.
Though it’s a few pieces away from being there, those pieces can be added in an offseason or two. Put Bob in – he’s not quite as fragile as Bradford – get those pieces, and let Fisher work his magic, and the RG3 to the Rams could be a match made in heaven.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but RG3 is several times more fragile than Bradford. Note that Bradford has actually played an entire season not once, but twice. RG3 has literally hurt himself trying to move. We(I) don’t want him anyway. I’d rather get a young QB who hasn’t been on IR almost as often as not.
RG3 would die facing NFC West defenses 6 times a year. He’d also never succeed unless they fire baby Schotty. RG3 on the Rams would own for thematic purposes and I’d get mileage out of it but there are better situations for him out there.
I like RG3 I wish he was as good as he was in his first year.
RG3’s sub tickles me to no end.
I wonder what RG3’s ratio of NFL games played to Subway commercials made is and how it compares to Johnny Foosball’s.
Why did he lose his arm sleeve in the last 3 panels?
It was also intercepted.
Loved the comic. But FYI tried to use the Facebook share button and it tried to share the Share app instead of the comic. Had to copy and paste the URL manually.
He will probably end up on the Jets where all bad QBs go to die.
All of the Jets last few starting QBs except for McElroy who was an UDFA went on to have a bounceback season immediately after leaving New York. We’ll just have to hope that Geno and Vick keep that proud tradition alive so we can continue to laugh at the Jets and their fans.
Yeah, we all remember that riveting season Tebow had after New York.
I actually saw a little kid wearing a Patriots Tebow jersey last summer. I definitely chuckled.
3 different qb’s in the span of 11 games, one of which is Colt McCoy… wait why am I weeping? Why do I have the intense urge to vomit profusely?? It’s… it’s like my body has gone through this before…
white boy takein too long wit da potatoes lol soft ass white boy
I wanna believe its truly you
gronk who told u bout the chesey potatoes lol
+TRUST++++