The Washington Redksins can’t stop with Case Keenum.
A competition between Keenum and Colt McCoy doesn’t do much for the Redskins in the short term.
And it certainly doesn’t help in the long term.
Speculation at least says the Redskins won’t stop with Keenum.
But the Redskins have made plenty of easy-to-avoid mistakes recently. Like keeping Bruce Allen despite fan backlash. Like making essentially zero coaching changes despite years of poor results.
Keenum alone isn’t going to solve the quarterback problem for the Redskins. He had a one-hit-wonder season in Minnesota in a specific scheme. He then turned around and flopped with the Denver Broncos, who immediately thought Joe Flacco was a better option and executed two different trades to make the swap happen.
Maybe Jay Gruden can get a little closer to the Minnesota scheme that helped the 31-year-old Keenum throw for 22 touchdowns and seven interceptions. If so, he’s not the worst stopgap solution in the world.
But the Redskins have to find a long-term answer. Alex Smith wasn’t it when they made the trade and Keenum won’t be it either.
Whether it’s a trade, free agent or even a first-round pick, the Redskins have to start looking at the position through a long-term lens or they’ll keep getting shoehorned into coughing up big assets for middling veterans.
