Comments on: Report: MRI suggests at least partial tears of ACL, LCL for Griffin

By: packfaninvikeland

packfaninvikeland — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:41:17 +0000

vicvinegar00 says: Jan 8, 2013 7:31 AM

Who didn’t see this coming? Every “running QB” eventually has to stop running so much or else they won’t make it. Guys like McNabb had a good 30 pounds on Griffin and still had to stop.

The best part about it is..Mcnabb is turning out to be one of the best scrambling QBs in NFL history with how Vick’s career is ending up, V. Young, Tebow, Donte Culpepper, the list goes on and on.. RG3 can’t and wont make it how he is playing . Amazing he only threw 5 ints all season long. He, from what I can tell, is a better pocket passer then those listed above, but putting it all together, in the past 10 years.. only Mcnabb has been able to do it..ok or Big Ben… he’s so slow it doesn’t count lol

By: pandebailey

pandebailey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:54:27 +0000

Florio – if you don’t know what they mean by exploratory surgery, welcome to the 21st century. They now scope knees to explore, to clean up and also to do major reconstruction. When they say exploratory, it means “We can’t tell how bad the damage is until we take a look”.

By: bigblackanvil

bigblackanvil — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:30:18 +0000

This sight blows!!!

By: vicvinegar00

vicvinegar00 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:31:38 +0000

Who didn’t see this coming? Every “running QB” eventually has to stop running so much or else they won’t make it. Guys like McNabb had a good 30 pounds on Griffin and still had to stop.

By: dannyglover21

dannyglover21 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:22:33 +0000

photomind89 says:
Jan 7, 2013 9:33 PM
I’m just glad one of our guys was not even close to RG at the time he fell. It would have been excuse 24,560 why they lost. Oh and the Packer fans would have added that as one of their excuses why they lost to us as well just because. Godspeed to your health RG. You are an amazing QB. That last game was not worth your career. I hope you heal back to perfect. Go Hawks.

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No, there’s only one excuse, and I’m sure you know it better than I do. Good luck, you guys were the better team that night. Robert will be back and we’ll see you guys again.

By: dannyglover21

dannyglover21 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:20:00 +0000

beerbudsnbevo says:
Jan 7, 2013 7:40 PM
“The first thing I did when his leg bent awkwardly was stand up and see if my leg did that. It didn’t. He definitely tore knee ligaments.”

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His leg bent like that WITH a brace on…

What were they thinking with Cousins ready to go…?

Rest of the NFC EAST laughing now

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Yeah the Giants, Cowboys and Eagles are laughing hard from their couches at home. RGIII beat 2/3 of those guys with one leg. You losers better pray this guy is hurt badly…

By: stonedwhitetrash

stonedwhitetrash — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:54:43 +0000

RG whatever number, has a problem His head tells him to stand tall in the pocket, but his feet tells him to run.

By: escapedconvict

escapedconvict — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:15:15 +0000

Advantage, Cousins.

By: p1nch3dloaf

p1nch3dloaf — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:03:55 +0000

patriotinvasion says: Jan 7, 2013 8:06 PM

“This happens every year. Guy tears up a knee…people claim the sky is falling…guy comes back fine. Ask AP how his knee felt this year en route to 2,000 yards.”

I’ll ask after Greg Oden returns my call.

By: joetoronto

joetoronto — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:58:56 +0000

I’ve never been a fan of the Redskins but when I saw Griffin’s knee buckle, I wanted to punch the rat in the face.

Learn from this, Robert. Never, ever trust the rat.

By: steeltuff

steeltuff — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:36:03 +0000

Head coaches, despite being under intense pressure to win a particular game, instead must look at the bigger picture when it comes to their QB’s health. Like Shanahan yesterday, Tomlin did the same thing with Big Ben last year against the Niners — and it cost him. That’s why you have backup QB’s . . . and Cousins showed he could have adequately come in and took over. Something is fishy about Dr. Andrews too. Why did he take so long to comment about his reluctance to let RGIII play so soon after the initial injury that occurred weeks ago?

By: andymuhs

andymuhs — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:11:51 +0000

I for one think RG3 is amazing and I’m a Seahawks fan first and an NFL fan second. I will say out of all the sports blogs I read this site seems to have some really shallow and rude people on it. Not everyone is of course but comments making fun of a guy who is so humble and played hurt knowing the consequences for his team are sickening. Here’s to a healthy recover Robert and I know you will be back in the saddle again. And for the Redskins fans that are trying to complain about how the Seahawks talk to much. They back it up. Garçon and Hall, not so much

By: peytonsneck18

peytonsneck18 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:36:17 +0000

Redskins are mediocre n rg3 is overated! !!

By: defscottyb

defscottyb — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:17:08 +0000

RG3 will be back better than ever and I had no problem with him trying to finish the game. He got the Skins there and deserved to play until he couldn’t anymore. He earned that right. Shanny asked him if he could go and he said he could so coach trusted him. I am so proud of my team for not giving up when they were 3-6. They won 7 straight games and knocked the Cowboys out of the playoffs in the process. As far as I am concerned the Skins out played my expectations of them this year. They won the NFC East for the first time since 1999 with a rookie qb, a rookie rb and a make-shift pass-rush and secondary. So, for that I am proud. As per the future I am excited about next year bigtime. We get back Orakpo, Carriker, Meriweather, Helu, Tanard Jackson and others who were hurt this year. Plus we will get a healthy RG3. Let’s be honest… The Skins would of won this game if Griffin was 100%. Seattle is lucky they caught him when he was gimpy. I’m no sore loser so I give credit to a very good Seattle team and esp Wilson, he has alot of talent no doubt and Lynch is good too. The Skins will be back next year stronger than ever… Skins fan shouldn’t be salty, they should be proud. Hail To The Redskins!

By: skinsfan91

skinsfan91 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:10:06 +0000

He’s bad as hell. He’ll be back just fine. Just a bump in the road.

By: dudeicle

dudeicle — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:05:08 +0000

I don’t get the comments that the field was the problem… the field was a bit hard, sure, but it wasn’t like his foot gripped too much and all the torque was forced onto the knee joint… you know, like what you see on field turf all the time. Now maybe if it was lumpy and he caught a lump awkwardly, that might cause problems, but I think it was going to blow out on that play no matter what the surface

By: draculalambert

draculalambert — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:04:27 +0000

If he sat RG3 and they lost, everyone in here would want Shanny fired for not letting him play…

Get a hair cut, RG3…mop head

By: japmen

japmen — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:02:03 +0000

Shanahan is the coach right? he has final say right? What a coward not to even have the courage to admit when you screw up. The Dr already had told him that RG3 wasn’t ready the week before. Hope he gets fired.

By: japmen

japmen — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:01:55 +0000

Shanahan ois the coach right? he has final say right? What a coward not to even have the courage to admit when you screw up. The Dr already had told him that RG3 wasn’t ready the week before. Hope he gets fired.

By: beerbudsnbevo

beerbudsnbevo — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:33:31 +0000

It’s interesting to read the comments of people
who’ve never touched a football…….or taken a
medical course…..but are experts on what was done,
and should have been done!!!!

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No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night….

By: nzyme

nzyme — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:28:18 +0000

Well I guess you can throw out all those idea of trading Cousins for a decent draft pick…

By: thebrettman

thebrettman — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:11:38 +0000

When you have a precious resource, you must protect it.. just like the Vikings did with their precious Christian Ponder..

By: kjbull

kjbull — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:05:06 +0000

The LCL is for stability…just from looking at the injury you can tell its a grade 3 tear. His knee totally buckled…so its just a matter of determining how bad everything else is and how fast of a healer he is.

I am going to guess…Week 4 comeback

By: 7ransponder

7ransponder — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:55:19 +0000

‘Skins fans are going to be talking a LOT about AP and what that potentially means for RG3 this off season.

By: janvanflac

janvanflac — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:44:08 +0000

I’m an Eagles fan and wanted the Skins to lose but was hoping RGIII would make it through the game without further injury….when he threw that interception because he couldn’t step into the throw I thought ok, they are going to pull him because he’s playing on one leg and they have a good backup. But they didn’t and they let him hobble on for another 30 minutes or so. IMO the Redskins should fire Shanahan and if they don’t the league should suspend him. Simply inexcusable to let him play after his leg buckled on him the first time.

By: aljack88

aljack88 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:40:49 +0000

Everyone forget about Phillip Rivers back in 2007?

By: wludford

wludford — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:36:26 +0000

When a QB hands the ball off, they hardly ever get injured during the play. When a QB drops back to pass, they are always at risk of getting injured.

So what does the league do? Change the rules to make it much more advantageous to pass, rather than run, the ball.

The more they try to protect QBs, the more advantageous it is to pass, and the more passing plays are called. And more injuries have resulted. Not just to QBs, but WRs, DBs, etc., etc.

In the old days, it was more balanced between run and pass. And if you called too many pass plays, you risked losing your QB for the year, so you were careful about it. Just like if you give a RB too many carries.

Used to be “good defense and a strong running game win championships.” Nowadays your QB is your ceiling.

Tell me how this is good for the game.

By: bmacwillconn

bmacwillconn — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:33:48 +0000

Mike Shanahan can offer up any bs excuse he wants to try and cover for himself. What a disgrace. Indefensible what he did to a young kid too niave to recognize the danger he was putting himself in by continuing to play. Shananan should be fired for cause and escorted from the building. Get well Robert. We’re all pulling for you.

By: johnnyballsack

johnnyballsack — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:25:09 +0000

thermalito says:
Jan 7, 2013 9:33 PM
Mike Shanahan is a terrible coach living off a distant past. He should absolutely be fired for this.
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I agree. He is living off of John Elway’s past. He was nothing before Elway, and has been a loser since Elway left. His career record without Elway would get almost any other coach fired. Griffin was his meal ticket and he proved he was a loser on how he handled that.

By: randomguy9999

randomguy9999 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:19:17 +0000

RG3 didn’t learn fast enough, and now he’s taken a concussion and a second serious knee injury…

Luck got into the playoffs without a scratch

in the NFL: college scramblers… never…. ever …. work out

pocket passers have a chance for long franchise careers