After a rough couple seasons at the quarterback position, Washington Redskins fans are searching for anything to be idealistic about with respect to Robert Griffin III. A quarterback, or any athlete for that matter, should have the self-belief that they’re the best.
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In return, I would only ask that he and everyone else agree that I am the most goodest thinker of deep and undisputedable football stuff that ever was borned. If you play professional sports, then you should strive to be the absolute best every single time you step on the field.
He was benched late in the season last year, meaning that Coach Jay Gruden didn’t even think he was the best quarterback on the Redskins. And Robert Griffin III has a right to say he’s the best QB in the league. I know they didn’t play that much, but time on the grass was uninspiring. But Griffin’s work at becoming a functional, trustworthy NFL quarterback continues this summer. “I know what I want to be, and I know what I strive to be”, he said Tuesday.
The truth is that, taken within context, what RGIII said was actually a good thing. And linebacker Tahir Whitehead said that the Lions are just tuning out all the talk about who may or may not be the best quarterback in the NFL. “There’s more business that goes into it, there’s more ruthlessness, backstabbing than you would expect”. “But the key thing that he said is he’s got to go out and prove it. We’ve all got to go out and prove it”.
After not seeing action in the 2015 preseason opener against the Cleveland Browns due to tightness in his hamstring, tight end Jordan Reed is hoping to be able to make his preseason debut Thursday against the Detroit Lions.
Griffin remains the starting quarterback after two tough seasons, per ESPN’s John Keim. I think when he was drafted No. 2 out of Baylor and he came here and he had a Rookie of the Year performance, I think everybody thought he could be a top-notch quarterback in the NFL. But, like Harper, he was the best player on his high school team and, as his Heisman Trophy in 2011 attests, the best on his college team and arguably in the nation.
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But, Griffin did enough that Kirk Cousins supporters can’t yet demand another chance.
