The Wilson Blueprint

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Originally Posted by skinsfan69

We're still a one win team if Griffin played all 5 games. The overall team has to improve if either guy is ever going to be successful.

I am not so sure about that. It's hard to say what Griffin might have done in the Eagles game, for example, which came down to the wire. Would he have wilted on the last drive? The 2012 RGIII wouldn't have, and we haven't seen enough 2014 RGIII to know, in my view. Also, there's no way the Giants game is a blowout with RGIII -- he's not had games with mutliple turnovers like Kirk had, and 31 points (the margin of the loss) were on turnovers. RGIII's mobility would likely have altered the approach the Giants would have taken to rushing the QB, which could have opened up the running game as well, not to mention might have enabled us to avoid sacks and rushed passes. Given the importance of the position, and the differences between RGIII and Cousins, I just don't know how one can conclude that every game leads to the same result, irresepctive of our QB.

Having said all of that, I also don't see how anyone could quibble that every element of our game needs to step it up (except perhaps our punter -- the guy is pretty dawn good). At the moment, with the potential exception of Way and Kerrigan, it's hard to single out anyone on the team and say, "Yeah, he's slaying it this season."