Dwayne Haskins Wants To Know The Plan
Another year, another wasted Washington season.
I don’t think anybody expected them to be this bad. Last season they literally were in first for half the year before Alex Smith went down. The team clearly had some talent. And yet…here we are, again. This situation feels familiar. Maybe because we’ve been watching it unfold for the past 20 years.
The Skins are 0-4. They covered up Alex Smith’s injury with a bandaid known as Case Keenum, who has proven to be what we originally thought he was before that one good season in Minnesota. He’s also hurt. The Skins started their first two games well, then collapsed. In the most recent two games they didn’t even muster a good start. The latest travesty of football against The Giants was so bad they almost made the Giants look like a good team. I can assure you, the Giants are mediocre at best. But they looked like a top 10 team that Sunday against this flaming pile of shit.
Jay Gruden is toast. I think he doesn’t even care anymore. He looks dead inside, kind of like how most Skins coaches look by the end of their tenure. Dealing with upper management must be awful and after a certain point the battle saps your soul. It is only a matter of time before he’s out, and if the Skins put in another couple of performances like they did against the Giants it will be very soon. They play the defensively dominant Pats this weekend, I assume with Haskins starting, and it is going to be a bloodbath.
Speaking as someone who wanted Haskins instead of Danny Dimes, I was kind of shocked at how bad he looked that game. Obviously that wasn’t an ideal situation to get put in and only happened since Keenum was hurt and playing like butt. Haskins didn’t have any real reps with the first team that week and probably didn’t expect to play. But he still looked completely lost. The Giants got multiple sacks because Haskins didn’t know what to do with the ball, even though plenty of players were open. He threw his first touchdown to Giants Safety Jabril Peppers. I honestly didn’t even get that much enjoyment out of watching it. There was a brash and loud Skins fan in the bar in front of me during the game, and as the disaster unfolded, you could see his spirit wane. It wasn’t the sad downtown of a fan who knew this was just a bad week. It was the sad, resigned silence of someone who just had whatever hope remained for the season snuffed out. He only returned to life after the game ended and we all got to watch the end of Lions/Chiefs instead.
It’s a sight I’ve seen many times over the past decades. I’m going to offer a bit of a hot take here and say that the Skins fanbase might be the saddest in the entire sport. Worse than Cleveland. Worse than Detroit. Worse than Buffalo. Worse than the Bengals, although similar. Unlike most of these fanbases, the Skins haven’t had quite the history of failure. They were very good as recently as the 90’s. Many fans remain who enjoyed the Skins heydays. Unlike most of those other fanbases, they haven’t turned their own failures into part of their own identity. Browns fans, Bills fans, Lions fans…they want success but part of what makes those fanbases so passionate is their shared bond over being cursed. The Skins don’t really have that. They’ve never really been bad enough for it. They go out and they overspend on big name free agents, and they win enough games to always draft in the 6-15 range, so they miss out on the biggest picks unless they give up a draft to move up (A’la RG3).
On top of that, Snyder is a dipshit, but he’s still young, and doesn’t appear to want to give up the team. It has left Skins fans mostly just angry and apathetic. They can’t bond over their failures. They just seem angry. They aren’t coming together on Sundays to enjoy the games despite the disasters, because they can’t support Snyder. Skins fans live in hell.
Lmao loving the baby fat on Haskins….I think him, Jay Gruden and Stafford lead the league in that category
At least they aren’t Miami.
Miami is actively trying to lose. That sucks for the players but at least the fans can rally around the tank.
The Skins are not. It’s just depression and anger all the way down.
I’d submit the Cardinals as the saddest football franchise. They have the longest active championship drought in American sports, but what really makes them sad is that they’re so forgettable that despite such a long history of suck they didn’t even make your list of sad franchises.
But in Arizona it’s warm outside and and there’s shit to do. Imagine living in Detroit or Buffalo. Your job sucks. Your wife has “winter weight”. You have to scrape the ice off your car every morning. It’s always grey. AND the only joy in your life, sports, revolves around dysfunctional franchises who have a history of crushing your soul at every corner.
I mean in Arizona it’s more than warm outside. It’s like the sun.
He’s right. I forgot the Cardinals. But they never really had a large loyal fanbase to lose like the Skins had.
Lol. My first business trip to Arizona I left my suit case in my trunk and the toothpaste melted.
I live in ATL and I was surprised.
You live in Atlanta? My deepest apologies.
Arizona isn’t “warm”, it’s borderline uninhabitable. Arizona is not meant for human life and should be abandoned entirely.
Obviously nothing is set in stone, and Haskins could become amazing and Daniel-san could plummet off a cliff, but for the life of me, I do not understand the desire everyone had for the Giants going with him at the draft.
He started 14 games in college. Think about that. FOURTEEN. He had NFL-caliber talent all around him, and the majority of his passes were dinks and dunks that his amazing receivers took 50-60 yards, padding his stats mightily. None of this means he CAN’T or WON’T become good, but, man… FOURTEEN GAMES. And on top of that he seems like a petty, grudge-holding jerk. How can that POSSIBLY go wrong in the bright hot spotlight of the NY media, right???
I’m not saying I’ve never had my moments doubting that the Giants knew what they were doing; it seems obvious in hindsight that management and the coaches weren’t all on the same page about what to do with Eli, but the lovefest for Haskins… I never understood. It seemed pretty obvious he was a risky gamble at best. He basically needs to learn how to play football from the ground up. In Washington. Good luck with that.
“He had NFL-caliber talent all around him, and the majority of his passes were dinks and dunks that his amazing receivers took 50-60 yards, padding his stats mightily.”
I mean, aside from the NFL caliber talent, isn’t this exactly what Jones is doing in Jersey? He’s got almost as many passes targeted behind the line of scrimmage as he does 10 or more yards downfield.
Well, I’m definitely of the mind that it’s far too early to crown Jones our lord and savior. Unless he wills them to a Super Bowl this season or next, 2021 is the earliest I’d be comfortable calling him the next LEGIT Giants Franchise QB. After all, The Sanchize had 2 nice looking visits to the AFCCG, including a win over the Pats, before the wheels fell off his wagon and he plowed helmet-first into his own lineman’s derriere.
The difference is the excitement about Jones ISN’T just about the stats. It’s about the spark/fire that erupted the second he took the field. His stats vs the Redskins were mediocre, but he still had the team competing. They were showing OOMPH, and that’s something the team hasn’t done with any amount of regularity in 4-5 years. It pains me to say that, because I love Eli and think he can still play, but this team wasn’t built to succeed with his demeanor. If anything, I suspect it was built explicitly like this to expedite the process of replacing him. Jones has them playing with heart, and it doesn’t begin and end with his stat line. He looks more like the Anti-Cousins.
Haskins was being touted as possibly the best QB in the draft, and the pre-draft talk I saw was almost SOLELY revolving around his numbers. He was completing a lot of short passes that went for huge yardage, and it seemed like THAT ALONE is what made everyone consider him a slam dunk at #6. Again, he might become a great player, but it should be no surprise to these experts that a guy who only started 14 games in college would come out of the gate struggling. Plus, ya know… it’s Washington.
“The difference is the excitement about Jones ISN’T just about the stats. It’s about the spark/fire that erupted the second he took the field. His stats vs the Redskins were mediocre, but he still had the team competing.”
This is a pretty good description of Tim Tebow lol
Only if you replace mediocre with bad. Tebow would be like 10/18 for 135 yards, 25 yrds rushing and win games.
There was a fan poll on ESPNs Page Two in 2009 for fans of different franchises to vote how they felt about ownership. The Redskins fans voted that they would happily fold the franchise for 3 years if they knew with absolute certainty they could get them back under a new owner after 3 years. That is pretty effing depressing.
Truth. Outside of The Butt Fumble, nothing encapsulates the pure desolate sadness of a franchise better than Gus Frerotte headbutting a padded concrete wall and spraining his neck against the Giants in 1997.
The franchise _is_ folding without a new owner in the next three years, so sounds like a strict improvement.
For a Skins fan, watching the Cowboys resurrection has gotta feel like having salt rubbed into an open wound.
People wanted Dwayne Haskins over Daniel GOAT, LMFAOO
The Orlando Predators could use Jay Gruden back.
ONE OF THE TABS IN THE LAST PANEL SAYS “SEXY REXY”
HE HAS RETURNED
Porn, porn, porn, lol
internet exploder no less
oh wait i forgot its called “”””edge””””” these days
And it turns out they’re gonna start Colt McCoy because Haskins was so bad.
I missed the sexy rexy cameos. God bless sexy rexy
Is that the Broncos font on the resume screen? I don’t know if I should be concerned or offended.
Maybe Jay can help they’re offense. His is pretty offensive.
Sounds like an Elway move to me. “What if we take this non-talented guy and move him to Denver? That will make him good, right?”
I’ll be honest, I feel incredibly sad whenever I looked at Drawn Dwayne Haskins’ face here. That is some palpable sorrow, and it hurts to see his pain.
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Speaking of anger
https://www.reddit.com/r/Patriots/comments/ddre6h/redskins_fan_here_and_i_need_your_help/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Not every day you see a fan go into an opposing teams subreddit and ask them to help chant “sell the team” at the game. Never seen that, even from the other fanbases you mentioned.
I love how so many of your comics turn out to be like… prophetic. Just saw the news that Gruden was fired. lmfao. Poor skins.