I did NOT say he wasn't smart enough, come on ST don't put words in my mouth. I clearly stated,
We've been through this before, Gruden was only a part of Haskins failures last year. Kirk Cousins stepped up in his first time with the starters, he drove down the field to win the game against the eventual Super Bowl winner that year when thrust into action. Then, in his first start the following week? He won the game. Shanahan had a tough playbook too, didn't stop Cousins from coming off the bench, not having worked with the starters all year, and take the team on a game winning drive in his first at bat.
It was widely reported Haskins spent little time in the study room. It's not that he can't...it's that what I have seen mirrors my own faults...I can be the hardest worker, willing to put in 80 hours or go nearly 2 months without a day off, but am I studying the things that will make me the best?
Again, I question his work habits, not the thing at which he excels...that's easy, he is physically talented. But is he doing the things that may not come easy? Does he spend hours a day perfecting a playbook? Prior to having access to it...did he watch very clip of film available of Scott Turner's offense?
That's what I am questioning and it is becoming tiresome making the same argument for months only to have my words twisted into "Haskins is dumb, and lazy" when I have in fact said otherwise several times. It just seems like he is ignoring the one thing that will make him the best he can be. Losing weight and getting fit is only a part of it...knowing the playbook well enough to come to the LOS and not have to call a timeout until you've burned all 3 in the 1st Q because you don't know the play is another.
And Boone, it doesn't matter if the offense was dumbed down for Callahan, Haskins appeared to be the beneficiary. It doesn't change the fact that all indications are he did not do everything he could to be ready to come off the bench and win, until the offense became far more vanilla.