Based on how the game is going so far, it looks like it’s time for the quarterback to ride some pine.

According to a HuffPost/YouGov poll released on Friday, the public opposes the Tiberi/Paul Ryan/Donald Trump-backed bill by a 21-point margin ― 45 percent to 24 percent. Perhaps more notable is the intensity of the public’s hatred of the bill, with just 5 percent strongly favoring the bill, and 32 percent strongly opposed. Yes, that’s right: more people passionately oppose the bill than even generically support it. 

This makes sense, of course, as the AHCA would leave 24 million more people without insurance than the Affordable Care Act would. Fourteen million of those people would be Medicaid recipients, the poorest and most vulnerable Americans, which demonstrates just how cruel the AHCA is. As I’ve noted in the past, the Affordable Care Act is not perfect, but we could easily make it better if we wanted to. The AHCA is designed to be terrible and would create a public health catastrophe if enacted. Pat Tiberi, Paul Ryan and Donald Trump don’t care about this, however. They just want to give hundreds of billions of dollars away to rich people.

Regardless of where you come down on all of that, one thing is clear: Pat Tiberi was given the job of quarterbacking the repeal of Obamacare and the enactment of the AHCA. We’re not even midway through the first quarter of that contest and he’s been picked off and sacked multiple times and now he’s forced to scramble. He’s also got his team in a deep hole early and it’s clear he lacks the ability and the confidence to mount a comeback.

Any coach worth a damn would bench a quarterback with results like that. Paul Ryan is the coach right now, however, and he seems content to let him flail. As such, its time for us to bench Pat Tiberi.