Sam Howell is penciled in as the Commanders’ QB1, and Ron Rivera said that the team ‘feels good’ about the QB room at their pre-draft press conference.
Here’s the thing, though: as confident as everyone says they are about Howell, Danny Rouhier believes it’s a smokescreen, and Jacoby Brissett will play more than Howell.
“Reason No. 1: I think the Sam Howell instant distraction is to throw us off the scent about how terrible their quarterback acquisition and development has been,” Danny said. “We would’ve been talking about how bad Carson Wentz was and how everything everyone said about him that was bad was correct. Rivera played Wentz in a must-win game against Cleveland, and it was the biggest disaster in eons. We’d be talking about that, except, as soon as the season ended, the next time we could talk to anyone, it was, ‘Sam Howell is our starter,’ which threw us off the scent and put us on to Sam Howell.”
Since then, Danny believes that Rivera has ‘left himself little trap doors and outs’ in the language he uses about Howell, because ‘they don’t know if Sam Howell can do it.’
And that’s the reason for reason No. 2:
“They got Jacoby Brissett to play Jacoby Brissett,” Danny said. “They may start Sam Howell for a time, before Ron Rivera does what he does: insist we run the ball, check it down, punt a lot, and try to play defense. You know…the 1980s! They’re going to do it again because they’re going to start terribly, because they always do, and they’ll revert to form, because they always do, and that’s who this dude is.”
Danny was flying solo on Thursday’s show, so he took some calls about the topic and asked fans to, ‘as the kids say: come at me, bro.’ Listen above and see how they did!
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