Off Season Griffin Man Crush thread

[MTK]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Not genuine? Really? When the comment from everyone who meets him is that he makes you believe in him and want to be around him?

I don't know the guy from Adam, but, judging just on the reactions of those who have actually met him, he is everything he appears to be.

Jordan Reed struck by RGIII’s humility

[redskins5044]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I haven't heard any of whatever you are talking about, but it sounds more like media looking for any story to do with Griffin. As for Griffin and Snyder having dinner, I imagine it's tied around the wedding.

If you don't want to hear it, just don't watch them.

Media isn't driving this, tweeting about crap that happened last year and making it seem like you didn't want to play and the coaches made him. Then his dad doing a interview and saying he should have been pulled out of the Seattle game and he hopes they change the offense this year.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by redskins5044

Media isn't driving this, tweeting about crap that happened last year and making it seem like you didn't want to play and the coaches made him. Then his dad doing a interview and saying he should have been pulled out of the Seattle game and he hopes they change the offense this year.

I doubt that his dad called up media outlets saying "I NEED TO GET THIS OUT THERE" more likely the media knows that Griffin news gets viewers and asked his dad for an interview. At which point his dad has a right to express his views. For me that's the media driving it. Likewise, Griffin has answered repeatedly, and while he has never out and out said it's all on me, his answers have generally reflected what I think, in that everyone had a bit of the blame, and they all learned a little, and hopefully if that same situation happens, we see a different outcome.


Can you show me any tweets by Griffin that sound like he didn't want to play and coaches made him? I have never heard that spin by Griffin, and it certainly would be a wholesale change from what he had been saying.

[Chico23231]

Wow. Guess RG3 cant please everyone. I guess if he actually did something worth criticizing I'd understand it.

[724Skinsfan]

The problem is nobody took the responsibility to get him out of the game, probably because everyone assumed someone else held that responsibility. Whether you are of the mindset that the player needs to sit himself or that it's the coach who should make the call or if you think a sideline doctor or trainer needs to speak up. I'm sure lessons were learned. Now tweets are made and the world continues to spin. RG3 is probably light-heartedly stirring up stuff now just to get a good laugh at people's ridiculously misplaced prerogatives.

[MTK]

So has RG3 actually said anything new recently about the Seattle game or are people still going off what he said about a month ago?

[724Skinsfan]

Nothing new.

[redskins5044]

Robert Griffin Jr. wants Robert Griffin III of Washington Redskins to throw more, run less - ESPN

This is a perfect example.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by redskins5044

Robert Griffin Jr. wants Robert Griffin III of Washington Redskins to throw more, run less - ESPN

This is a perfect example.

again, the post did an interview with Griffin's dad. Who do you think set up the interview? (I put my money on the Post). Then ESPN carried it, wrapped it up in their writing and put a little more spin on it. That's what the media does. And that, to me, is a perfect example of a media driven issue.

I am sure many dads think their sons bosses could do things differently. The reason this gets playtime, is because stories about Griffin generate views. Thus they want more stories about Griffin.

I will say this, the best discussion I have seen from Griffin on the Seattle game, and the end of last season, came in the ESPN magazine a few weeks back. If you haven't read it, you should, it gives a very good portrait of the whole situation.

[JoeRedskin]

Nothing new and now Jason Reid wrote an article saying "Shanny needs to revamp - RGIII obviuosly not happy". No indication that RGIII is unhappy or, really, for any of his assertions but it is now being discussed as if it were a fact.

Opinion morphs to factual information, welcome to the internet.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

Opinion morphs to factual information, welcome to the internet.

Word.

[redskins5044]

Bottom line look at the game he got injured in, the Ravens game was a pass play that he scrambled and didnt get down quick enough. His injury was not due to the style of offense we played last year.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

I don't care about all of this made up problems with the staff, his ego, or anything else. This kid is a baller and the face of the franchise and is heading towards being the face of the NFL.

It will never end, but believe me I still love the kid we met about a year ago and still believe he is the same person as when he got here.

Man crush continues from ArtMonkforHall!!!

[CultBrennan59]

John Keim is saying that griffin is looking good in OTAs planting his foot and throwing.
RG3 on the field, throwing passes at Redskins’ OTAs | ProFootballTalk

@john_keim: Griffin is throwing during the ota session. Dropbacks. Plant and throw at times. Sometimes more off front foot. #Redskins

[Alvin Walton]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

John Keim is saying that griffin is looking good in OTAs planting his foot and throwing.
RG3 on the field, throwing passes at Redskins’ OTAs | ProFootballTalk

@john_keim: Griffin is throwing during the ota session. Dropbacks. Plant and throw at times. Sometimes more off front foot. #Redskins

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