After a 1-3 start, the Washington Football Team made the huge decision to bench starting quarterback Dwayne Haskins.

On the daily Locked On Washington Football Team podcast, host Chris Russell explains why Washington's decision to move Haskins to the third-string spot shows this is more than just a struggling young quarterback.

Chris Russell: Dwayne Haskins is apparently the number three quarterback, which means that not only does he go from the starter through the first four games, but he goes to inactive on Sunday. Unless they somehow find a way to have all three quarterbacks active, which I don't think they would.

That tells you that this is a wake-up call, number one, at the very minimum, a wake-up call. Number two, this tells you that there's more at play here than just a struggling young quarterback. It could be work ethic, it could be seriousness in meetings, it could be his agent launching a grenade on Sunday challenging the Washington Football Team and specifically Ron Rivera. It could be a number of things. You rarely see a starting quarterback go from one to three, that's probably as big of a story here as anything.

There are a lot of different stories and a lot of different components here. So assuming that that's all true, and it's not medically related, and there's a report out that he doesn't have COVID or anything like that, that that's not what this is about.

Assuming that that's true, Ron Rivera is not only basically slapping Dwayne Haskins, proverbially in the face. He's also saying, “look, you've got to work on a lot of things, not just one or two things, a lot of things to earn my trust again, to earn another opportunity again, and you're going to learn from the sideline because it's not only what happens on game day, but it's also what happens in practice and it's also what happens in the film room.”