Why I'm Not Gonna Panic About Our QB

Sure it was a terrible performance and we've seen the struggles RG3 has endured as we have switched systems to a new offense. Watching that performance its easy to knee jerk and start the doom and gloom predictions to the season. We all saw the game thread, its funny to go back and read, especially Saden posts...but lets look at the big picture.

Its preseason, this doesnt count. Seriously.

New offense. Folks need to remember we haven’t installed the entire offense yet. You saw it Saturday, no rollout, boots, play action, screens, etc. All the strengths of RG3 passing game we didn’t get a look at. Gruden knows this and will build the game plan around these strengths as the Third becomes a more comfortable pocket passer. Also, Alfmo and the running game will be the focus of the offense, just as it was when we won the division.

The offense has strongest skill players since the Posse, Byner years. We have guys who can do nothing but take the pressure off RG3 and Gruden will design to get the ball to these guys one way or the other. Remember we are going up against some bad defenses in the East too.

Our Special Teams and Defense look much better. Better field position, less pressure on the offense. Im really excited what im seeing from those 2 units.

With RG3 we are not talking about an unproven guy. Have a little faith, like it or not we did win the division just 2 years ago with this guy winning big games down the stretch to get us in. This isnt a guy who hasnt shown folks.

We need to be patient and let Gruden develop RG3 as the pocket passer. Are we that dumb to be giving up on RG3 now? Some of the stuff in the game day thread was bs and who ever gave a shit with Thiesmann thought? Come'on man.

Remember, Theismann is no Norman Einstein.

While I agree that RG3 has not as good as I had hoped for in the preseason, I do believe we need to give him some more time to get it all together.
After watching the game the following Sunday, he did miss some wide open targets and scrambled when he should have hung there and ran out of bounds with the damn ball in his hands instead of throwing it away.......
Sorry kind of went on a mini rant.

This season should tell us if he can continue to learn as he goes along.

There was alot of mistakes that he made, let's see if he gets better each week.
I did not think that the O line was as bad on Sunday.... Ravens have a pretty stout front four.
Can he learn to stop running out of the pocket and be confident in his throw?

He might be just over thinking every thing..... only time will tell.

Co Worker just arrived and first thing he said was "start Cousins"

RG3 isnt trusting his eyes and he is a lil late on his throws.

Listen to Jaws and you'll feel better.
"It is Roberts team.... Until he is a complete failure and that won't be happening. He is extremely talented QB. Gruden is working with him to rework his style of play. Gruden will get it done. He will be very successful in this league for a long time"!!
"It will take a little time to transition"

There are legitimate reasons to be concerned and being critical is far from hitting the panic button. Missing wide open receivers, running out of bounds behind the line of scrimmage, taking bad hits and doing things like jumping in the air on passes are inexcusable from even rookie QBs. Jumping on passes. Really?

I think most fans can deal with rust and growing pains, but what we've seen this pre-season is pure amateurism. Not hitting the panic button just yet, but definitely concerned and definitely not 100% positive we will see a drastic turnaround in 2 weeks.

Listen to Jaws and you'll feel better.
"It is Roberts team.... Until he is a complete failure and that won't be happening. He is extremely talented QB. Gruden is working with him to rework his style of play. Gruden will get it done. He will be very successful in this league for a long time"!!
"It will take a little time to transition"

But we dont have time! Just the last 23 years...

Sure it was a terrible performance and we've seen the struggles RG3 has endured as we have switched systems to a new offense. Watching that performance its easy to knee jerk and start the doom and gloom predictions to the season. We all saw the game thread, its funny to go back and read, especially Saden posts...but lets look at the big picture.

Its preseason, this doesnt count. Seriously.

New offense. Folks need to remember we haven’t installed the entire offense yet. You saw it Saturday, no rollout, boots, play action, screens, etc. All the strengths of RG3 passing game we didn’t get a look at. Gruden knows this and will build the game plan around these strengths as the Third becomes a more comfortable pocket passer. Also, Alfmo and the running game will be the focus of the offense, just as it was when we won the division.

The offense has strongest skill players since the Posse, Byner years. We have guys who can do nothing but take the pressure off RG3 and Gruden will design to get the ball to these guys one way or the other. Remember we are going up against some bad defenses in the East too.

Our Special Teams and Defense look much better. Better field position, less pressure on the offense. Im really excited what im seeing from those 2 units.

With RG3 we are not talking about an unproven guy. Have a little faith, like it or not we did win the division just 2 years ago with this guy winning big games down the stretch to get us in. This isnt a guy who hasnt shown folks.

We need to be patient and let Gruden develop RG3 as the pocket passer. Are we that dumb to be giving up on RG3 now? Some of the stuff in the game day thread was bs and who ever gave a shit with Thiesmann thought? Come'on man.

I agree but there will be several instances where he's going to have to drop back, scan the field and beat the defense on 3rd and 8. I do think we all need to wait and see until week one before we hit the panic button. But what my eyes are telling me is that RG3 has a long way to go. Some of the things we saw Sat are the same things we saw last year.

Also the patience thing doesn't work for me. It's his 3rd year. Everything is in place for RG3 to go out and have a great year. If Nick Foles can have a great 2013 then why can't RG3??? Is Nick Foles better? I sure as hell hope not.

One last thing too, it's time to let go of 2012. Different system, different coaches. RG3 doesn't want to run that offense. I don't blame him. But it's time for him to go out and prove that he can run the offense we need him to run.

My thought on his struggles are this, it's preseason and Gruden is using his time with RG III in the game to work on the things that he is the least comfortable doing. Like Chico said, we have yet to see a game in which Gruden has designed the game plan around Robert's strengths.. Let him work on his weaknesses now and not fly off the handle with the Cousins talk or split reps with the ones.. That's worked great for CLE.

People need to realize the difference between playing to win (regular season) and playing to evaluate (preseason).

Everything changes once the bullets are live. Game planning and play calling are completely different when the games count.

Does anyone really think Gruden is showing anything right now? Or that he's not going to put Griffin in calls that he's comfortable with and able to execute well once the games count?