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Originally Posted by punch it in
You're way more into stats than me. What stats do not show you is missed reads, and indecision. I saw a ton of that last year. He was never comfortable or confident like he was two years ago. Either way I believe we will see ass kicking Griff again this year. HTTR!
Edit: I dont believe he forgot how to play either. I believe the injury / brace and missed pre season completely threw off his mechanics. The more the season spiraled out of control, the more he tried desperately to get back into form. It was just a doomed year. He will be fine.
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It's not that I am "into stats", but that is the only way to explain my position. Yes, his footwork and timing was off, he was not the 2012 Griffin, even as I said I wasn't saying he was better in 2013. But to say that, as the season progressed, he wasn't improving, or to say that he wasn't a middle of the road NFL caliber qb, is wrong, and the proof is in the numbers.
Put another way, imo, games 1-8 last year were very likely Griffin's floor as an NFL qb and it is doubtful that 2012 was his ceiling. There is zero reason in my mind to believe that with a full offseason that he should not be around 2012 form or better. He rolled the dreaded sophmore slump in with a ACL repair, and a dysfunctional team structure and managed to put up respectable, not elite, numbers.
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Originally Posted by NC_Skins
Let's be real. Much of that production from RGIII last year came in garbage time. Those losses weren't all on him because the defense and special teams sucked some kind of bad. That said, RGIII has to play much much better for us to break .500 this year
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Nor am I arguing that his production was done in awesome form. My point of using stats is to simply say, the guy didn't suddenly have a non NFL caliber year. I don't care if it is garbage time, the defenses might be playing softer, but they are out there, and he was competing.
Yes he has to play better, we all agree on that, but my initial statements were directed toward irish and others who want to say " If, God forbid, he has another year like he did last year then it opens up a whole can of worms about him being a bust ". Even at last year's level, he wouldn't be a bust, but he wouldn't be the player we all want him to be.