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Tannahill is wayyyyyyyyy overrated. The dude was barely a 60% passer. His decision making sucks, and doesn't know how to progress through options.

Let's repeat this one more time

RG3 is a very athletic QB but he should not, I repeat, he should not be looked at as being ANTHING like McNabb or Vick or any QB that looks to run the ball
RG3 will become a great QB by not, I repeat, by not running the ball much

He will use his athleticism when he has to first extend the time needed to complete the pass or as a last resort, let me repeat, as a last resort, to run the ball

give it up ... please

SkinsJock wrote:Let's repeat this one more time

RG3 is a very athletic QB but he should not, I repeat, he should not be looked at as being ANTHING like McNabb or Vick or any QB that looks to run the ball
RG3 will become a great QB by not, I repeat, by not running the ball much

He will use his athleticism when he has to first extend the time needed to complete the pass or as a last resort, let me repeat, as a last resort, to run the ball

give it up ... please

Let's let him play an NFL game first before we say anything about him.

WP excerpts:

The rules in the Griffin house were simple and strict: Homework was the first duty. There was no hanging around without a purpose. Nobody got a car — kids didn’t need wheels. But along with rules came incentives: Top grades earned extra allowance. “The only thing Robert did was homework and play ball,” Copperas Cove High School football coach Jack Welch said. “He was very grounded, very rooted.”

Together, the Griffins would review game tapes as if they were after-action reports. To correct his mistakes, they showed him tape of star athletes who did it the right way, Olympic hurdlers and NFL quarterbacks.

After football practice at Copperas Cove High, when other kids were relaxing, Jack Welch would watch open-mouthed as RGIII would pull a tire with his father. Then “you would see him running the road on the way back to his house, up the hills,” Welch said.

“There are some who can run awfully fast, and some who can throw awfully hard,” Welch said. “But you have not seen one as brilliant, and intelligent, and elusive. He puts all the ingredients together.” To top it off, he was a superb leader, though he exercised what Welch called a subtle “servant-type” leadership, always bringing doughnuts to his linemen and deflecting credit.

The football part of his plan developed a little more slowly, because three games into his sophomore year he blew an anterior cruciate ligament in his knee. He dealt with the injury in typical Griffin fashion. He was a workout fanatic whom Briles would find in the weight roomon Friday and Saturday nights. He and his father studied all of Briles’s passing plays and receiver routes. During his rehab, he sat in a chair in a field and threw passes to his father, who stood in the spots where the receivers were supposed to be. The result was that he returned more accurate.

“People said he came back better,” Robert Jr. said. “But he never stopped.”

BTW - WP via Sally Jenkins

DarthMonk

StorminMormon86 wrote:

SkinsJock wrote:Let's repeat this one more time
RG3 is a very athletic QB

Let's let him play an NFL game first before we say anything about him.

That's up to you - I'm going to speculate and get excited about him all year

This is one of the best QB prospects to come out of college in a long, long time

I am so excited we get to see RG3 play and grow into being one of the best QBs in the game

it's possible that he's going to take a little time to get acclimated but this kid is driven to succeed

there is no doubt in my mind we are looking at one of the best QBs to ever play in a Redskins uniform

I'm excited to see RGIII in the burgundy and gold as well but I'm still going to remain "cautiously optimistic" over the whole deal. There is no guarantee in the NFL.