Doug Gottlieb: “Dwayne Haskins wasn’t ready. Just because someone wants to pick you doesn’t mean you’re ready. You don't cut a guy one game before the end of his second season when he has a guaranteed 4-year contract from being a first-round pick unless you're ticked off and you're trying to send a message that we have to have him out of our locker-room. Because you can just deactivate him for one more week and then release him quietly. You only do that if you're REALLY pissed. He wasn't ready with his footwork or his preparation. I put out there in February that the last coaching staff was so alarmed by his inability to simply call a play that they had him checked for dyslexia. They were like ‘man, this is a smart kid, this doesn’t make any sense.’ He wasn’t ready, he didn’t get it, and he didn’t buy in… The selfie in and of itself, was not a huge deal. The strip in and of itself, was not a huge deal, but when it's under times of COVID, the strip club becomes a BIG DEAL. When you miss a snap it becomes a big deal. When you have a reputation of being immature, it becomes a HUGE deal and it only reaffirms everything that everybody thought about you. Then you have trouble with the offense, and then you don't play well. Now you get your a** CUT. He wasn't ready! The blame is on Dwayne Haskins. He didn’t grow up, he didn’t act like a starting quarterback, he had missteps, and I don’t think he’s good enough. Bad feet makes you almost unplayable unless you’re so good at everything else. You gotta be completely ready to become a professional before you become a professional… When you get rid of a dude Week 17, and you gotta say ‘dude, get your stuff, you have 30 minutes to say your goodbyes’, you are telling everyone in the NFL that this guy is a cancer. The train has left the station, and we’re leaving him at the station. If you want him, you can have him. No reason to do it other than you're trying to make a point… The bigger point is really simple. Don’t go to the NFL unless you’re ready, and unless smart people around you really tell you that you’re ready. Because it does you no good to be a draft pick that washes out because then that hurts the reputation of your coaching staff, which you thought was trying to hurt your reputation by keeping you in college.” (Full Segment Above)
Listen to Doug Gottlieb explain why he thinks Dwayne Haskins’ standing with the Washington Football Team rapidly deteriorated, and why he believes Haskins’ infamous fall from grace should become the poster child for elite college players declaring for the NFL Draft before they’re ready to take on the emotional burden it takes to play in the pros amongst grown men.
Check out the segment above as Gottlieb details why Washington’s unprecedented axing of the 2019 first-round pick really just proved how big of an eyesore and saboteur Haskins really must have been in that locker room.
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