Sam Howell, that’s my quarterback? Well, Doc Walker was the Redskins’ lynchpin at tight end in the early 1980s, including their Super Bowl runs in ’82-’83…and HIS QB was none other than Joe “Rhymes with Heisman” Theismann!
Joe T. jumped on with Doc today as he filled in for Kevin Sheehan, because he’s got some double-DMV going on: Theismann will be watching his Notre Dame Fighting Irish kick off the college football season against Navy in Dublin on Saturday afternoon, and later that night, he’ll be watching the Commanders finish out their preseason against the Bengals.
And when it comes to the latter, and being that QB, Theismann dropped a bomb on Doc: since he got hurt 38 seasons ago in that infamous MNF moment, the Commanders have used FORTY starting quarterbacks, more than one per year average.
Sam Howell is No. 40, having started Game 17 last year…but Joe thinks that now that it’s the Josh Harris era, things are ready to change.
“You can’t have any kind of consistency at the position if it keeps changing, but now, just going out on the field and seeing everything now – it’s almost like a game day,” Theismann said. “If you can’t go out there and see that and get excited, you don’t deserve to put the uniform on.”
Joe & Doc took a look back at 1981, Joe Gibbs’ first year at the helm, where the hen-Skins were dominant in the preseason but then stumbled out of the gate to an 0-5 record – and in discussing that and Troy Aikman’s comment that Monday’s game was the most exciting preseason game he’s seen, Theismann agreed and alluded to his earlier point.
“That was probably the best preseason game I’ve seen in years; every position did something special,” Theismann said. “Sam moved around and make plays, Jake (Fromm) coming in and taking us down the field and making the kick…it’s something to build on. When we went 0-5 that season, we were learning something new, and they’re in the same situation right now with Eric Bieniemy, and they have a tremendous amount of talent around the quarterback position. It starts with little steps like this. Feel the victory; it may have been a preseason game, but there’s a lot of guys who don’t have the experience of winning with that kind of enthusiasm. That’s something to build on.”
Take a listen to Theismann and Doc’s entire conversation above!
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