Dwayne Haskins preseason thread

[GridIron26]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I don't think the question is whether you can expect a 2017 season from Keenum. That 2017 team had Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen, the WR weapons were just night/day better than ours (fingers crossed on McLaurin tho).

The question for me is whether Keenum can give you what Alex Smith gave you before getting hurt. Smith was on pace for 3200 yards, 16 TDs, 8 INTs.

And he was 6-3 going into the game where he got hurt. With a healthy line and running game, with this defense, it's not far fetched for me to think Keenum can be what Alex was. The exception though is INTs. Alex was among the best at avoiding turnovers. But in 2017 Keenum only threw 7. Last year in Denver, he threw 15.

What you get from Keenum in the ball security department will determine everything. We're going to be a team with a small margin for error. We will limit teams on defense, so even an underachieving offense centered around a ground & pound style will still be in the game. The question is can Keenum convert just enough chances into points, or will he turn it over to the other team, and give them a short field for that field goal that makes the difference?

All I know is if you put Haskins in, you end up with 20 INTs and you're dead in the water from the jump. He's not there yet, we see it in the preseason.

Great points. I think we will get half of Alex Smith from Keenum - it looks like Keenum will be able to protect ball better when Oline protects him. Keenum is aggressive, compared to Alex so we are likely to see more turnovers AND we are likely to see more big plays than we saw from Alex simply because Keenum is more aggressive. I saw few Broncos games last year and I noticed Keenum have lot of trust in WRs, he sometimes would throw ball to covered WR. This worked well in Minn because of Thielen and Diggs - both WRs are good and they can fight for the ball. Broncos' WRs beside Sanders aren't good. Redskins WRs are worse than Broncos at this point until they show that they can be friendly target for QB. Although we do have good TEs, compared to Broncos and that can work in our favor, assuming Reed stays healthy for most of the season and Davis doesn't regress throughout the season.

Even with bad WRs, I have a feeling that Keenum will play better than last year but he won't best his career year in Minn with Redskins. One thing we need to credit Gruden for, he works well with QBs and I believe this bodes well for Keenum. I expect to see Keenum making some mistakes in beginning of the season. If, and that is BIG if, Keenum isn't benched in favor of Haskins later in middle of season then I honestly can see Keenum getting better as the season progress. That is unless our WRs flop big time.