RGIII: Great QBs don't play well if teammates don't

Teammate DeSean Jackson opted to articulate that sentiment far more concisely. Jackson posted the following image on his Instagram page: “You can’t do epic sh-t with basic people.” He linked to the message via Twitter, saying “this how I’m feeling today.”

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I wonder to whom Desean is referring?

I don’t recall anything like this in college with RGIII. I can’t help but wonder if the way Snyder has treated him and interposed his relationship in between RGIII and the coaching staff has caused some of it.

That Rams game in his rookie year gave some insight into how things were going to go for him I think. The Rams smacked him around pretty good in that POS quasi college offense the Shanahan’s were running. There was no way a QB built like RGIII was going to be able to play that style with men hitting him instead of boys.

Like SJ39 said this isn’t the Big 12 anymore.

And then he came off as so whiny in his post game comments about the way the Rams played.

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Another Washington Redskins coach appears to be running low on patience for Robert Griffin III.

Jay Gruden was blunt in his assessment of his starting quarterback one day after Griffin struggled mightily in Washington’s 27-7 home loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

“Robert had some fundamental flaws,” Gruden said. “His footwork was below average. He took three-step drops when he should have taken five. He took one-step drop when he should have taken three on a couple occasions and that can’t happen. He stepped up when he didn’t have to step up and he stepped into pressure. He read the wrong side of the field a couple times.

“So, from his basic performance just critiquing Robert, it’s not even close to good enough to what we expect from the quarterback position.”

Gruden pointed out that Griffin missed on multiple deep-ball throws to DeSean Jackson, calling it a “big difference in the game.”

“Josh McCown hit his three with Mike Evans,” referring to Evans’ 207-yard receiving day. “We missed DeSean three times.”

Gruden was also asked about postgame comments in which Griffin said a quarterback only plays well if his teammates do their job. Jackson appeared to respond to Griffin’s comments with a pointed Instagram message.

“First of all, Robert needs to understand he needs to worry about himself No. 1 and not everybody else,” Gruden said. “… It’s my job to worry about everybody else. Yes, everybody else needs to improve, but it’s not his place. His place is to talk about himself and he knows that. He just elaborated a little too much and he’ll learn from it. He’s 24 years old.”

Griffin played poorly against a bad Bucs team, then compounded matters by saying the wrong things to the media. Now Gruden has to clean up the mess — and he doesn’t sound happy about it. RGIII appears to be on thin ice with the franchise that once saw him as its savior.

Not having been on here very much since training camp forgive me what point about Bradford are you referring to?

For the record I think they should move on even if he is open to a much lesser cap number

Robert Griffin III – QB – Redskins

Based on conversations with the Redskins’ old coaching staff, ESPN’s Steve Young stated that he knows Robert Griffin III “doesn’t put the time in.”
“I’ve talked to his previous coaches, people I really trust and admire, that know quarterbacks,” Young said. “He doesn’t put the time in.” Current Redskins coach Jay Gruden all but confirmed Young’s comments by recently stating Griffin has “fundamental flaws” and his footwork is “not even close” to where it needs to be. On Wednesday, Gruden continued to dance around the topic and paint a rose-colored picture. “He could do more probably,” Gruden acknowledged, “[but] he studies himself and he comes back with ideas the following day. Whether he’s here or not, there’s a lot of work you can do. … I really think he works hard at it. He puts his work in.” Dan Snyder will probably have to decide between RG3 and Gruden this offseason.
Source: ESPN.com

http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/7406/robert-griffin-iii

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Jay Gruden OK with RG III’s work habits

November 19, 2014

By John Keim

http://espn.go.com/blog/washington-redskins/post/_/id/13092/jay-gruden-ok-with-rg-iiis-work-habits

ASHBURN, Va. — Steve Young took a jab at Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III’s work ethic, based on conversations he’s had with previous coaches. But coach Jay Gruden said he’s fine with the work Griffin does to prepare for games.

Gruden said Griffin “does what he’s supposed to do.” And the fact that he can watch film of opponents or their own practices on his iPad at home makes it easier.

“He could do more probably, [but] he studies himself and he comes back with ideas the following day,” Gruden said. “Whether he’s here or not, there’s a lot of work you can do. There’s a lot of different ways to communicate now than it was back in the 80s when Steve played … I really think he works hard at it. He puts his work in.”

In the offseason, Gruden pointed out a couple times how hard Griffin worked and not just in the weight room. In the first two years, one complaint from the coaches was that Griffin perhaps spent more time working out in the weight room and needed to devote more time to the other aspects of the position.

Young, who played three years for Mike Shanahan when Shanahan was an offensive coordinator in San Francisco, said in an interview on “The Michael Kay Show” on ESPN New York, “I’ve talked to his previous coaches, people I really trust and admire, that know quarterbacks,” Young said. “He doesn’t put the time in.”

Young also compared studying in the NFL to going to law school, which he attended.

“I’m telling you, studying for week-to week in the NFL, and memorization, and reflexive recall … you have to drive it into your brain so far. Especially playmakers, guys that can use their legs, it’s like they’re not desperate. Guys that can’t use their legs are naturally more desperate, so they’ll put more of the time in … Even [in] this watered-down version of the NFL, the quarterback, still, the success is really about expertise and data management. Reflexive recall of data, and that’s just pure memorization. It’s boring May, June, July work, and going to school. It’s as difficult of a process of memorization as it was for me in law school.”

This whole RG3 thing is just turning bizarre. Recently, the coach went over the entire thing in public, and to me that was just so strange. A coach using a public forum to air out the issues with his qb. Yikes.

Washington is a mess. I don’t know if the Rams would even look at RG3 for anything more than a 6th. But Snyder has proven he doesn’t know football, so anything is possible.

The legend of RG3 continues. 😉