NFL: 4 quarterbacks who deserve to be benched before Week 3
By John Buhler
These four NFL quarterbacks played poorly in Week 2 and need to be benched.
When it’s too early to fire your NFL head coach, you must bench your bad starting quarterback.
Every team who is not having a good time will have its reasons for doing so. When you can’t stop beating yourself, how can you go about beating anybody else? In fact, the only way you can do the impossible is if the other team wakes up, gets out of bed and beats itself like the organization exists for the sole purpose of doing that. It’s not even October yet, but guys must be benched!
59. Scouting Report. Pick Analysis. Miami Dolphins. Ryan Fitzpatrick. 4. QB. player
For as much as my soul craves the greatest quarterback matchup of all time in the Buhler Bowl on Thursday Night Football, we’re not seeing enough out of my extremely bearded doppelgänger Ryan Fitzpatrick. Gardner Minshew is balling out of his mind with the Jacksonville Jaguars, but the Miami Dolphins aren’t doing much of anything on offense with FitzMagic. It might be Tua Time.
Sure, we can chalk up Fitzpatrick’s lack of early-season success to playing two playoff-caliber division rivals with excellent defenses in the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills. However, 0-2 shouldn’t cut it for Dolphins head coach Brian Flores. Keep in mind he won five games as a first-time head coach last year with what we thought was the worst roster ever assembled.
Fitzpatrick may have achieved a Wonderlic of 48 coming out of Harvard many years ago, but he’s closer to the 48th-best quarterback in football than he is the best. It doesn’t take a ton of brainpower to figure that one out, bud. So while he went 23-of-39 passing with 328 yards and two touchdowns, Fitzpatrick was still outplayed by Josh Allen, as Buffalo improved to 2-0.
Given that Tom Brady no longer plays in the AFC East, quarterbacking divisional supremacy is up for grabs for the first time in two decades. While Cam Newton is good, Allen is improving and Sam Darnold is gettin worse by the snap, how should Dolphins fans feel about Fitzpatrick? He’s fine in small doses, but he’s not Tua Tagovailoa. It may not happen in Week 3, but Tua Time is nigh.