Griffin's Impact on our Offense

Lets say we drafted RG3 yesterday.
Would you trade him straight up for Cam newton?

No, ceiling for pocket passers is higher than run first quarterbacks.

Lets say we drafted RG3 yesterday.
Would you trade him straight up for Cam newton?

No way! Cam Newton is Cam Newton and Robert Griffin III is Robert Griffin III. These are two young quarterbacks who have the potential to be great in the future. That's like asking if the Rams and the Colts should execute a trade by swapping Andrew Luck and Sam Bradford? No, because it's needless. RG3 and Newton are each special in their own way.

I would with hold judgement until I see how RGIII's talents are utilized.

Echoing a couple of things said earlier here, his biggest impact IMO will be on the running game. With a QB that can threaten the edge, the backside end must stay at home as well as the backside LB on some reads. This allows the backside tackle to get out on the MLB which can open up huge cutback lanes for the back. Helu has the potential to break off some huge runs if he can get to the second level quickly and is one on one with a safety.

Once the running game is productive, that opens up the play action and boot action passing game, which Griffin excels in. With his accuracy and deep ball arm, the opportunities for big plays should be plentiful.

Interesting article/analysis on RGIII. Never heard of the Lewin Career Forecast before, but Griffin just scored the highest mark EVER.

Player Year LCF
Robert Griffin 2012 2530
Philip Rivers 2004 2476
Drew Brees 2001 2190
Colt McCoy 2010 2092
Carson Palmer 2003 1973
Peyton Manning 1998 1784
Andrew Luck 2012 1749
Chad Pennington 2000 1678
Brady Quinn 2007 1518
Jason Campbell 2005 1506


FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: Innovative Statistics, Intelligent Analysis | Lewin Career Forecast 2012 (http://www.footballoutsiders.com/nfl-draft/2012/lewin-career-forecast-2012)

No, ceiling for pocket passers is higher than run first quarterbacks.

This. I don't want Griffin to think run unless the pocket collapses. Something along the lines of Steve Young or Steve McNair. I think that's what we'll see...

IMO RG3 is very intelligent he will probably pick-up most of our Offense fearly quickly, but the thing that will get him is the differenet defensive coverages he will see, that's whats going to take him more time to adapt to atleast a year or 2.

Assuming we draft Griffin, how will it impact our offense this upcoming season, scheme and personnel wise

Its gonna be interesting.
On one hand you have Kyle pass 1st playcalling which results in about 60/40 pass run split.
Griffin's physical talents as a passer would actually support/justify Kyle's pass 1st playcalling.
If the offense stays exactly the same we could see better execution and more explosive plays.

Griffin's running ability is the flip side to the coin.
Griff poses a huge threat the backside contain (DE/OLB) which will slow or prevent the backside pursuit which should make it easier to run the ball.
No team is gonna want to get caught with their backside contain crashing down only to see Griffin keep the ball on a bootleg because something like this could be the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voXDOEJcz8g

With the defense forced to play Griff honest it will make it easier to run the ball.
If its easier to run the ball then Kyle might call more run plays which would bring balance to the playcalling and make the play action/boot action passing game much more effective.

But then again, Kyle could emerse himseld in Art Briles offense and emerge with an offense that favors the formations and concepts from Baylor's offense.
And the result could be something like the Bills, Lions, Packers and Panthers all shotgun spread all the time.

Guys cam is NOT a run first QB, he's pass first

say what you will, but griffin makes the redskins immediate contenders on madden 13