The Redskins just lost their starting QB for the season to injury. Wouldn't it be amazing if....

[Yavin4]

Kaepernick went to Washington???

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[RockRaven]

1. Dan Snyder is more likely to play QB himself than hire Kap

Meaningless factoid: Alex Smith and his backup Colt McCoy both played with Kap in SF.

[a kennedy]

2. Alex Smith broke both bones in his leg......

Horrific injury.......done for the year......and would love Kap in Washington.

[Just a Weirdo]

5. Career ender

Theismann had a similar injury on this date 33 years ago. Even tweeted about it.

[UniteFightBack]

8. I remember video taping that....gross I know. nt

[a kennedy]

10. Right, right.......

and just so sad. Watching 60 minutes and Tim Green was on, an X NFL defense player who now has ALS. I’m really starting to hate the slow mo video of hits on the NFL playing field. Hate it......

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Surgery has come a long way in since 1985

nt

[lastlib]

27. Weird that similar injuries happened to two Redskins QBs....

...33 years apart. I watched it happen to Theismann--it was pretty gruesome.

Also watched it happened to Kevin Ware in the NCAA tournament in 2013. Yecch. Hope I cdon't see any more of those.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Not everyone feels the way I do

And I am not trying to change your way of thinking....but I will NEVER refer to them as a slur for Native Americans.

[Drahthaardogs]

4. Seriously, did you see that poor man's leg?

And you somehow want to politicize this???

[Yavin4]

6. I'm not politicizing it. He broke his leg. That happens in the NFL.

There's nothing that can be done about that.

[Drahthaardogs]

11. Injuries like the one he suffered are rare, Theisman and Gerald Wilhite

Type of breaks. This is career ending most likely. We don't need to turn this into a Kapernick fantasy.

Plus, for the record, Kap is done. He's skinny, his shoulder surgery has not been properly rehabbed, and he was a RO quarterback.

He will never play in the NFL again

[Algernon Moncrieff]

20. Theisman was watching the game live

By which I mean he was on the sidelines. Today, coincidentally, is the 33rd anniversary of the Theisman injury. I saw it on TV a that time, and really could be happy if I never saw it again.

[Drahthaardogs]

21. I remember the game Theisman broke his leg

MNF, Lawrence Taylor did it.

Was horrible. All the talk at school the next day for us on the football team.

[Blue_true]

24. Monday Night Football game. They just kept replaying it.

I watched when it happened, could not watch the incessant replays.

[Drahthaardogs]

25. I was doing homework in the den with my dad watching the game

I was only half paying attention to it, until the replay

[elleng]

7. DAMN! Hadn't heard about the injury.

AWFUL! Glad my daughter wasn't at the game; she usually is.

Yes, get us Kaep!

Sounds like we did pretty well with backup McCoy, ALMOST won!

[UniteFightBack]

9. Is Colin a starter? nt

[elleng]

15. 'And backup Colt McCoy ran onto the field after the Redskins got the ball back

with an interception on Houston’s 27. Once a star at the University of Texas and considered a possible quarterback of the future for the Cleveland Browns, the 32-year-old McCoy has been the Redskins’ emergency option at quarterback since he played five games in the team’s lost season of 2014.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins-fall-to-texans-23-21-after-alex-smith-is-carted-off-with-gruesome-leg-injury/2018/11/18/b56529f6-eb6c-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html?

[True Dough]

12. Washington might try to get Teddy Bridgewater from the Saints

to get them through the season. Or AJ McCarron from the Raiders. Or Tyrod Taylor from the Browns.

[Blue_true]

26. Doubt that they get Bridgewater. Maybe McCarron. nt

[oberliner]

14. How are people still using that name?

[Yavin4]

17. They have the worst owner in sports.

The worst.

[oberliner]

19. And there are quite a few bad owners out there

So that is saying something.

[Elwood P Dowd]

23. I approve this message. (nt)

[Algernon Moncrieff]

18. Probably not

Dan Snyder (Washington's owner) is a serious winger.

Then there is the better question: is Kap in anything resembling playing shape?

[Drahthaardogs]

22. No.

He's skinny, out of shape, has an un rehabbed surgery repair. Plus he's now an old Read-Option quarterback.

He's done.

[True Dough]

28. I forgot that the trade deadline has already passed

But here are some free agents that Washington has reportedly been in contact with:

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