I just hope that Mr. Griffin allows his body enough time to heal and rehab properly before stepping back out on the field. I would think that sitting out the 2013 season would be the only smart decision for the possibility of having a long career. I wish him good luck.

Of course it might never need to come to this, as one can simply perform an arthroplasty procedure to regrow cartilage if necessary that has a six week recovery time. Don’t be surprised if Griffin ends up having this performed at some point.

Further, the problem is pain management when there’s a significant loss of cartilage. This can be managed using various medications. After his career, I expect him to have to get a knee replacement at some point sadly…

NONE of you know what conversations took place between Griffin/Shanny OR team doctors/Shanny for that matter.

Further, everyone keeps saying ‘Shanny put him in danger by running him’, well that’s not exactly true considering the initial injury against the Ravens took place on a scramble, not a designed run. Griffin needs to learn to get out of bounds/slide like Colin Kaepernick.

When are ‘fans’ going to start pointing the finger at Robert Griffin III?

The reason the Redskins drafted TWO quarterbacks last spring was because they knew Griffin’s durability was questionable.
The organization’s hunch is about to be realized. Kirk Cousins is no slouch.
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They should have saved all those draft picks then and just drafted Cousins! Why would they be so stupid if they didn’t think they would have RGIII for many years to come….

Basketball courts are vastly more resistant (the physical therapy word for harder) than football fields, causing more knee strain. On top of that, cutting and jumping put more of a grinding, cartilage destroying strain on the knees than anything in football apart from runningbacks pushing through piles (hence their short shelf lives)

Brandon Roy is a great athlete, but he has no knees. Which is not a pun, but is to say that when he goes up, he comes down way too hard.

By the time he entered the NBA, his knees had already become a problem, and his first knee operation actually removed cartilage, rather than fixing it, as they would do today. Roy was supposed to take two months off, but was on the court again in less than two weeks.

The next year, his steadily degrading knees along with the subpar surgery caused a bone contusion, which should have put him on IR. Instead, he was playing again 8 days later.

Roy had arthroscopic surgery on his knees the following year: a procedure very similar to what Griffin is having done. The Third will be sitting out at least six months to heal up, Roy took one.

Point is, it was no single injury that led to Roy’s debilitation, but a lifetime of extreme wear, tear, and poor physical therapy practices. Though his career looks pretty much over now, keep in mind that not only does medical science advance exponentially every year, but Roy battled with his knees through 23 years of knee-grinding, cartilage-crushing AAU, high school, college, and professional basketball.

In other words, Roy is that broken-down 1988 Camaro that you try to keep running on duct tape and discontinued parts you find on the internet, while Griffin is a 2012 model that blew out it’s transmission. Is it good for the car? Clearly not. Is it a huge repair job? Absolutely. Will it run as well as it used to? Probably not.

But is it in incomparably better shape than the 1988 lemon? Without question.

RGIII isn’t some motorized puppet with an on/off switch, he’s the body that knows itself more than anybody else. He felt what his leg was doing as the game went on, ultimately it was his choice.

What went down on that field, in RGIII’s mind feeling his knee slowly giving up, was life imitating art a la Friday Night Lights when the kid blew his knee out.

From RGIII doing that, to Michael Jordan’s Wizards-stint, jocks need to learn how to be their own coach sometimes, and know when to stop.

The sports media are the only one “advertising” anything about Griffin, as well as the only one raising “concerns”. The Redskins and James Andrews aren’t quiet because the injury is vastly worse than they thought, they’re quiet because, unlike NFL Network, ESPN, and PFT, their livelihoods don’t depend on attention-grabbing headlines.

Now, what if I told you that the greatest quarterback that never was played his first NFL playoff game with a known knee injury for almost the entire game, that his coach knew that he was hurt, he knew that he was hurt, but decided to show that he was a man and not something else?
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Damn, that is spot on. Still, I’m from DC, so I don’t want to even discuss that, but I want to make sure you got props for what would otherwise be hilarious.

Even if Griffin only comes back at 80 or 90 percent of his former speed, he’s still a franchise quarterback, and there’s no way to overpay for one of those. Even if the most pessimimstic commenters on this site are correct and Griffin misses the whole 2013 season, Washington’s draft picks were not misspent. Griffin’s knee situation was grossly mishandled, but he’s unquestionably worth the picks they gave and more.

Let him be a quarter backing Payton manning. Sit in the pocket and throw. His arm is okay…isn’t it?

RG3 is a great athlete and seems to have a good work ethic. I do not doubt his desire to heal. Several doubt his ability to heal and be the same type of player he showed he could be. Nobody knows.