Ron Rivera admits he made a mistake with QB Dwayne Haskins last summer: 'My approach was wrong' - Yahoo Sports

Ron Rivera is entering his second season as Washington Football Team head coach, and he's determined to apply the lessons he learned during his first year.

A year ago, Rivera zeroed in on Dwayne Haskins as the starting quarterback.

Even though he didn't name Haskins as the starter until mid-August, it was clear which way Rivera was leaning.

He declined to hold an open competition for the job and had Haskins work exclusively with the starters. .

That didn't work out well for Rivera or the team.

Haskins did good work during training camp, but none of that appeared during the regular season and he was benched after just four games.

Rivera told ESPN that he now sees how he could have handled training camp better. .

"The mistake I made was that my approach was wrong," Rivera told ESPN on Thursday.

Rivera says that the experience of last summer, and the season that followed, have helped him figure out how to do better going into training camp.

This time, he's going to do what he says he should have done last year: have an open quarterback competition.

Even though he's got Ryan Fitzpatrick, a dependable and reliable starting quarterback, he believes a QB competition between Fitzpatrick, Taylor Heinicke, and Kyle Allen will benefit the team as a whole.  .

"It's going to be a good competition," Rivera told ESPN.

It's going to push our football team and make our football team better.

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