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This was a shock as this was just his second season. It seemed obvious this wouldn't work out last year but Dan Snyder is a stupid asshole and passed on drafting Tua to stick with Haskins, so that's a fun sidenote.

He has talent but this release has to be due to his attitude in recent weeks with the strip club incident being the biggest blow.

He passed on a questionably healthy Tua for Chase Young, a generational defensive end.  But yeah, I said drafting Haskins was stupid when they did it.

Teams are always desperate for a QB so they will draft one no matter how much it obviously won't work out. Sam Darnold at 3? In a few years we will say "Justin Fields at 2? Hahahahaha".

The question is, does Haskins want to put in the effort to succeed as a starting QB?   So far, he's giving off vibes that he doesn't.  However, that can change and this is the perfect reality check to make that happen.  

He is unbelievably talented in some areas (after all, he beat out Joe Burrow at Ohio State), but his weaknesses are glaring in others   He processes vital information too slowly and he does a shitty job of seeing the field.  More than likely, he doesn’t have a masterful understanding of his offense and doesn't do a very good job of reading defenses/defensive adjustments.   A lot of NFL players eat, sleep, and shit football and they spend their down time studying those things intensely.  This guy isn't one of them.   The strip club incident is proof of that.

There was a great line in the movie Bull Durham which even though it was about baseball it also translates into football.  We've seen a ton of QBs and baseball pitchers flame out because of this.  "Million dollar arm and a 10 cent head."

I've bastardized and outright stolen that line close to 100 times since the movie came out... The truth is often poetic.

Question is how much is it he is a complete fuck up and how much is environment.  Some guys will give 100% even week 17 on a 2-13 team.  That is ideal and what you want, your Wes Welkers, Jason Taylors, etc.  There is a second group that will give 100% if you are a contender, but will mail it in if you are out of it -Randy Moss, TO, Revis.  And then you have your complete bums - JaMarus Russel.

We know DH isn’t in the first group.  But based on what he did at Ohio, I think he is in the second and not third group.  That means on a well run team (which Washington is not) he might find success.

For many players they have always gotten by on their natural talent, and never really had to work at it. In the NFL you have to WORK at it, Brady and Peyton are perfect examples - always working.