Taylor Heinicke Highlights from 2021 Season | Washington Football Team

Tom has a fart for an arm what are we talking about ron has no choice but to start him next season you keep buildin

I don’t know if the problem is Turner’s ability as an OC, or Heinicke’s limitations as an NFL QB.

I’m comfortable with seeing another franchise paying him $15m.

I respect the guy’s effort, but his production seems like a level of play that you could live with… but I can’t see him leading a team avg 27+ PPG. Seems like an offense based on impromptu play isn’t the route to go vs high level guys who can get it done in all situations. Herbert last night in Vegas gave his team a chance to win with multiple 3rd/4th and long scenarios, and just delivered strikes.

With 5 yrs, Heinicke’s not doing anything on that level.

@Pay Me No Mind 5 years?

​@Pay Me No Mind Heinicke had a rushed and less than perfect situation with no first team reps in the offseason, you’re clearly just looking up when he was first in, rather than how many games he actually played in. It was for all intents and purposes his rookie season – and he outplayed a lot of players and was in the running for the pro bowl. He finished #19 overall in passing yards, 65% completion percentage and trending up (some games 80%+) (Herbert was 65.9% for the season, only 2 spots up), 85.9 passer rating – regularly going over 100 when he’s on point: and a lot of first draft rookies had worse stats (Fields, Lawrence, etc). And still better than the likes of Sam Darnold, etc. Heinicke led WAS to a couple of wins with over 30 points early on in the season. We lost a lot of key pieces on offence that if this was DAL I guarantee Skip Bayless would be crying all season about how Heinicke had one arm tied behind his back because of how many players were out. He did more with less, and he far outperformed his stats for the season. That WAS did as well as they did until the end of the season where they just lost to attrition speaks well of them. Herbert is a different style of player – and honestly Heinicke outplayed him that game and we would have won if not for a fumble or if they actually started him instead of Fitz. A lot of close losses in games. If the team actually builds around him I think we’ll be alright – if it’s always impromptu then it means the plans aren’t working very well in the first place and need adapted. Heinicke led the best drive ever against TB for like 10.5 mins, not on what level? He’s clearly capable of duking it out with any qb, he just needs more time as a starter and we need more pieces on both sides of the ball that are healthy – we lost to injuries and covid. I don’t know if Rivera was calling all the plays in the TB game but we need to play like that all the time instead of forcing the ball downfields and being scared of checkdowns. Heinicke needs to work on his deep ball to be anything like Favre, but until then he’s the hardest to tackle qb in the league and he has some of the best fakes/options I’ve seen and I think we need to rely on more misdirection and switch up how the game is played a little bit. More like the Harlem Globetrotters/Monkey in the Middle instead of playing like a cookie cutter team. Herbert is the old style of cookie cutter qb – Peyton Manning-esque. There’s nothing wrong with that, he’s great, it’s just way different and the times are changing in my opinion. Idk if Herbert is enough of a leader to take the Chargers to the playoffs past a game or two whereas I think Heinicke can overcome the odds and take the helm way better than most if allowed: he does better in high pressure situations. Herbert is a lot easier to read/to figure out than Heinicke, so I think he will have difficulties next season. Heinicke has a great 3rd/4th down conversion rate when the team needs it, though – we just need actual players healthy on offense. We struggled after losing Mckissic, especially: he was the workhorse of our offense. If you ask diehards on the offense most will say we needed to run the ball more and generally better playcalling, and also a lot falls on Heinicke to perform better. I think if it was any other rookie we’d be impressed, but people like having an age bias or whatever.

@Slim wim taylor is not starting next season unless someone gets injured

I think he should get one more year. I think theres something there or put him in competition with someone but they will probably upgrade from him. I think he is a top 32 QB though currently

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Heinicke took 2nd team reps doing training camp but did a great job in his first season at some point WFT has to realize that with proper coaching and decent play calling Taylor can get the job done the building process takes patients you must put all the pieces together without loosing qualified players but 1st you must give them a decent opportunity to develop what I don’t understand is drafting a quarterback who hasn’t played a down in the NFL is a set back in some ways it takes another 2 or 3 years to develop him

@Slim wim work in the off-season would get him to starter material. i’d rather take heinicke over any qb in the draft

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If he had a more accurate deep pass he would be a beast. I love his grit

@Terrence Flack what’s up bro

@Andre Flack If he had coaches who called plays that made sense and is pumping some iron over the offseason, he should be great.

@James Jenkins I like how you said that. Earlier I was talking to my neighbor about our coaching staff. He said the whole staff needs to go. I said I like Ron but Turner needs to go. I’m 50/50 on Rio what are your thoughts on the coaches

I like heinicke but with him the 3rd half of the field is out of play, his deep ball is probably the worst in the league. Wentz will allow us to stretch the field and Scott Turner loves the deep ball.

With that said, Heinicke as a backup and still on the team is amazing. Dude has grit and if wentz ever misses some time we know we have a capable guy to come in and get some Wins.