11-26-2014
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It's amazing how fast the Robert Griffin III era soured in Washington. The 2012 NFL offensive rookie of the year reportedly has been benched before 2014 is even done.
Griffin has been benched for Colt McCoy, according to an initial report by ESPN.com's Adam Schefter and then backed by other outlets. Griffin's poor 106-yard passing effort in a close loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday was all Redskins coach Jay Gruden needed to see.
The Redskins are 3-8 and going nowhere. Colt McCoy, 28, is a journeyman and very unlikely to be the quarterback of the future, unless he shows something the rest of the season that we've never seen from him in the NFL. That combination leads any reasonable person to wonder if the Griffin era, unbelievably, is done in Washington.
There's another possibility, and it's that the team knows Griffin is so far behind fundamentally that it doesn't do him any good to continue flailing away like he has all season (in this extensive breakdown of Griffin last week, NFL Films' Greg Cosell suggested he needed what amounts to a Quarterbacking 101 course in the offseason to fix his flaws). Schefter reported he is still a "significant part of the Redskins' long-term plan." Perhaps the Redskins want to shut him down, get him healthy and then spend the offseason working on his game.
That's fine, but that was the same plan late last season. It didn't work.
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