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

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Originally Posted by Daseal

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.

I think this is a fair assessment. I just think that McCloughan probably doesn't think that RG3 or KC are the the long term answer at QB; but he is using the possibility of one of them being good (or good enough) for now to give him the time to build other areas of the team.

If either RG3 or KC work out, that's great for the team. But if they don't, next year's team will be in a much better position to handle a new QB. As a fan, I want the team to win now like anyone else; but I don't pin my hopes on the current QBs because we are in a rebuilding process.