Following RG3 through Baylor, I never expected him to get to this point, during his time in college, he was a fantastic leader, a responsible kid, and everything you'd want in a franchise quarterback.
But the regression started on April 3rd, when RG3 "respectfully" refused to workout for the Indianapolis Colts on account of their infatuation with Andrew Luck. Understandable to a certain extent, if Jim Irsay called ME and asked me to workout when I knew he had little interest, I would have said no too.
However, when you snowball, everything seems like a warning sign, but things continued to get worse.
Over the offseason, RG3 made everything about him, he pitted himself against his head coach by allowing them to take responsibility for putting him in harms way. At some point, RG3 even had the audacity to say he wanted to be used more like Peyton Manning and sent a message of "I don't want to run for you, I want to throw."
It hasn't worked. RG3 has thrown twice as many interceptions than last year through ten games. His QB rating went from 73.2 to an unimpressive 45.2 and his completion percentage has taken a 6 point dip.
Robert Griffin Jr. is starting to look pretty stupid for all the criticism for Shanahan opting to use a player his organization pays millions of dollars the way he pleases.
Even without RG3 having many designed runs, he's still succeeded to do the reckless plays surrounding this paragraph.
RG3 seems to have developed Michael "rag-doll" Vick syndrome. He holds onto the ball for a while, and is a little guy, who gets beat up.
The difference between Michael Vick and RG3 you ask? Maturity and ownership. Michael Vick has never so much as said a single negative word pertaining to his offensive line, or his receivers, but RG3 has:
The problem
I wasn't sure if I was the only one who scratched my head Sunday evening when RG3 said the reason he threw a gift-wrapped floater to defensive back Brandon Boykin in the endzone on a huge third down while down by eight late in the fourth was "nobody got open, and I was backing up...."
So here you are, throwing a lame duck into the middle of the endzone, on third down, and you don't say "I should've made a better play, you say "nobody got open."
RG3 went on to say that the Eagles knew their plays, basically insinuating that his team was out-coached in addition to his receivers and offensive line screwing him over.
Ironically enough, Tom Brady threw a late game interception the next night, and while sports fan worldwide are screaming about a picked up defensive holding/PI flag, Brady didn't see a need to throw shade on others.
Brady took complete ownership, almost to the point of unnecessary nature.
"We shot ourselves in the foot sometimes... I wish it wouldn't have come down to [the call]." Brady went on to take complete ownership for the play, "That was a big play in the game and we didn't come up with it... I was a little indecisive and it wasn't a great throw, no excuses, it should have been a better throw."
Tom Brady gets hosed by a blown call, and when he gets up on that podium, he focuses on the team (notice the constant use of the word we in any of Brady's interviews) and then he takes ownership for not putting his team in the best position to win the game.
RG3 throws a terrible pass in the middle of the endzone and gets picked off to end a season, and all he can do is blame his receivers.
For the record:
Griffin did have a receiver open according to anybody watching the tape.
Santana Moss is sick and tired of RG3 calling him out on a local radio station.
"If we're going to win games, we need to win games with our guy saying, 'At the end of the day, I didn't make a play,' regardless of if it wasn't him," Moss told D.C. radio station 106.7 The Fan in an interview with hosts LaVar Arrington and Chad Dukes. "And that's how I feel. Because that's what we're out there to do."
It's safe to say Mike Shanahan can personally thank RG3 for his early retirement at the end of this season.
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