Coming off of arguably the best game in his NFL career, where he threw for 314 yards and zero interceptions, the Washington Football Team made the decision to bench QB Dwayne Haskins in favor of Kyle Allen, sending the second-year QB to the bench behind Alex Smith, who has now been promoted to second string.
Quincy Avery, who is a noted QB coach in the NFL, working with players like Deshaun Watson and Haskins himself, was apparently upset with this decision, expressing his views on Twitter Wednesday morning. To him, this is the type of decision that has kept Washington near the bottom of the NFL for so long.
And that's why the Washington football team will forever be the Washington football team.
— quincy_avery (@Quincy_Avery) October 7, 2020
While the decision is puzzling, to say the least, it is clear that Washington feels that they have a chance to make a run at a playoff spot with the NFC East so wide open, and they believe that Allen gives them a better chance to win right now than Haskins does. Whether that is true or not will be seen in the coming few weeks, with a stretch of very winnable games on the schedule.
