Robert Griffin III ready to turn career around with Redskins in 2015

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Originally Posted by Ruhskins

People need to chill the F out about RG3. If works out this year, great, if he doesn't, Scot McC is building a team that can help/accommodate a new QB this year. I don't think QB is the most important positing on this team right now (yet) and McC is just trying to get by in that position while he builds a complete team.

Also, all this overhype about his comments show me that A.) people don't know how to f'ing read; and B.) RG3 or most athletes don't learn that their comments will always be taken out of context.



Agreed.

While I generally don't care what RG3 said, it was a thoughtless thing to say. I'm not up in arms about it, but it does say to me that he doesn't learn lessons from his previous failures. Within 2 weeks no one will remember that.

Here's where I disagree on your statement. We can't just give RG3 the year. If RG3 plays poorly all year and we let him go, we're also going to lose Kirk Cousins. Kirk's contract is up and will likely go to a team where he feels he can at least be in an open competition for the starting spot. We're not only making a decision on RG3, we're making a decision on Kirk. If RG3 ends up getting hurt, we owe him 16M next year. That's a big chunk of our cap invested in a player that (if it happens that way) has been hurt the past 3 years.

In my opinion, RG3 gets the first quarter of the season to prove himself. If he's playing well, he gets to keep the position. If he's playing mediocre or struggling, I bench him to see what KC has in his tank. To be clear, I wouldn't measure RG3 purely on stats or W/L ratio. Is he reading the defense correctly, is he doing the correct drops, is he releasing the ball on time, is he making good decisions. Things us fans likely can't know for sure, but Gruden and co will.