Gameday Thread: Browns vs. Redskins

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Originally Posted by KI Skins Fan

I like Jay Gruden but here is his stupidest-sounding quote so far. It's about RGIII not protecting himself when he runs. Gruden: "It is an issue if he gets injured. It’s not an issue if he doesn’t.”

Let's look at Gruden's statement the way I twist it in my mind where I equate not going out of bounds or sliding soon enough to poison: "If RGIII takes poison and dies, then it's an issue. It's not an issue if he takes poison but doesn't die."

Smart. Real smart.

After reading what Gruden said, I'm as concerned as ever that RGIII may once again be seriously injured. It would be tragic to see a potentially great career curtailed or ended early because a harmful habit wasn't corrected.

I hope Cousins is ready because I'm afraid he'll be starting some games this season.

But his quote is dead on. Griffin has to understand that he has to protect himself. That means lengthening his understanding of when he has to get out of bounds, or slide.

Compare it to driving a car, if you are going at 20 miles an hour you know you can be closer to the next car than if your are going to 70 miles an hour. It's the same thing with Griffin, he starts thinking protect to late, because he overestimates his reaction times and underestimates the opponents. If you look at the run to the sideline, you see Griffin was trying to get out, he put his head down and was thinking he could go out of bounds thru the defender, instead he bounced off him and into two others, and really could have done a job on his knee. He needs to see the defender and step out in front of him. And that's all about Griffin protecting himself.

Racecar drivers drive at 100mph plus safely, because they know how to protect themselves. We've seen qb's run (wilson, kaepernick, and others) and know to protect themselves. If Griffin is going to run, which I don't think anyone is saying he shouldn't run ever, he simply has to know what the right protection zone should be.