If you’ve seen any of the Washington Redskins preseason action thus far, well, I apologize. And if you’ve been lucky enough to miss such, consider yourself lucky.
Somebody who’s not getting any type of luck though is Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III who has been obliterated just about any time he’s been on the field.
Is there a reason for that though, more than the Washington Redskins just having a bad offensive line? According to at least one anonymous NFL head coach, yes, there is indeed a reason for that. That’s because the said coach believes Jay Gruden and the Redskins are purposely trying to hurt RGIII.
After watching the Detroit Lions use Robert Griffin III as a practice dummy, I texted a head coach, one whom I know is a huge RG3 fan, to get his thoughts. His immediate reply: “I have never, ever, on any level, seen a head coach treat his quarterback with such a lack of respect.”
“That Lions front, even without [Ndamukong] Suh, is pretty ferocious. As a coach, you see your guys getting beat, and you see your quarterback especially take that first shot, every coach I know would have taken their quarterback out of the game.”
“What is baffling,” he said, “is that I can’t think of a single head coach in the NFL who would take an injury-prone quarterback, put him behind a very shaky offensive line, in a preseason game, watch him take those kinds of hits and leave him in the game. It looks personal to me.”
While the thought isn’t exactly outlandish, the likelihood of such is pretty slim and you have to believe Jay Gruden, Dan Snyder and the Washington Redskins aren’t exactly taking the suggestion very happily.
