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Originally Posted by 30gut
I don't understand why the notion persists that Dan Snyder is actively meddling in the game time personnel decisions when it comes to Griffin.
When Dan and Mike Shanahan were clearly at odds Dan did not prevent Mike from benching Griffin.
Last season Dan didn't prevent Jay from benching him either.
The only internal politics about the QB position that I can see are the current HC never appeared to be willing/eager to work with the potential franchise QB he inherited. Jay imho expressed a rather curious amount of impatience and made no bones his feeling toward Griffin during the season. Jay's level of faith in Griffin is imho the biggest hurdle to Griffin's ability to max out his potential with Jay as his playcaller.
This season will answer many questions for me, the main question being whether a player/QB can have success with a HC/OC/playcaller that doesn't believe/want them.
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Regarding the bolded part of your comments: I also found that to be odd behavior by Jay. I have to believe that one of the key reasons Jay was hired was to develop RGIII and Kirk, yet he showed little patience with either one of them. If he was called on the carpet for that, then he deserved it.
The point I was trying to make is that I think higher management is holding Jay's feet to the fire in terms of his making a better effort to develop RGIII. If that is the case, then RGIII can't develop on the bench. That would mean that RGIII should have a longer leash this season, not a shorter one. That's why I think he gets at least four games to start the season.