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Robert Griffin III is Learning From the Past

By Carl Cockerham

Jun 7, 2016; Berea, OH, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) throws a pass as quarterback Josh McCown (13) watches during minicamp at the Cleveland Browns training facility. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 7, 2016; Berea, OH, USA; Cleveland Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) throws a pass as quarterback Josh McCown (13) watches during minicamp at the Cleveland Browns training facility. Mandatory Credit: Ken Blaze-USA TODAY Sports /
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Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson won’t say it but he has his starting quarterback for 2016. Robert Griffin III is a very talented quarterback as he showed in 2012, winning rookie of the year. He made incredible plays, running and throwing it around with the best of them that year.

Then he fell from grace because he tried too hard to make the incredible play when it just wasn’t there. Just like in life, there’s a time for everything in the NFL, like sliding and throwing the ball away. Try to avoid making the big mistake and live to fight another down.

Mike Shanahan, his former coach, told  TheUndefeated.com., “We tried to get him to slide. We tried to get him to throw the ball away.”

That obviously didn’t work as young, gifted quarterbacks often believe they can always make a play. And that would end up causing RGIII to make critical mistakes and get injured. But now, under the watch of new Browns coach Hue Jackson, Griffin is showing that he is learning from the past.

Mary Kay Cabot of The Plain Dealer reported Wednesday that RGIII recently “punctuated a slide by popping up and spinning the ball.” She also mentioned that the area the Browns are having their offseason workouts in isn’t safe when RGIII is throwing the ball away as he hit a garage door.

When asked about it Wednesday, Griffin said, “Just throwing it away. Coach asked me to work on those things. If he asked me to throw it away, I’m going to throw that thing as far as I can — all the way away.”

Griffin admitted that sliding and getting rid of the ball were two things he didn’t do enough of in Washington, saying, “That’s why you see me breaking windows out there on the field. “I’m just being coachable. You have to practice the way you play.

“It seems funny throwing the ball over the fence, but it’s just part of the process. You have to take everything into account.”

Even though Jackson is slow to commit to RGIII as the 2016 starter verbally, he loves what he sees so far. He told Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal, “RGIII can do anything we ask him to do. And so far in OTA’s, he is, something he’s not known for doing while in Washington.

So apparently, RGIII is learning!

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