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Originally Posted by punch it in
Im not even sure who the hell is mad about what anymore. Lol. Im going to just state my case as simply as i can.
There have been a handful of times in Griffs short career where I personally screamed "oh my God take him out of the game".
Seattle - one friggin leg working and obviously hurt bad!
Baltimore - they did but after he went back in
Weeks one through about six.
Shanny has maintained all year that Griff needed time to learn and play and grow. Makes sense he seems healthy enough to be on the field, just not mentally or mechanically whole yet. Than when this whole bizarre love triangle between Griff, MS, and DS started ( which mind you seems to have been leaked by MS to someone at ESPN- because MS was dangerously close to being ousted as our coach) - Griff is deactivated. Than almost a full year later MS admits that Griff should have been pulled from the Seattle game. NO SHIT. Why does he say that? So that he wouldnt be questioned about the fact that he is suddenly concerned about Griffs safety. Again - this is not a question of SHOULD Griff be benched, but WHY he us being benched. Why now? Why not after the Giants game? MS thought we were still in playoff contention? No - he was still trying to save his job. After last week he knew it was over and this became about the 7 million dollars.
Even if KC lights it up it still falls on Shanny for not pulling him all those other times when he was injured/not ready.
Edit : this is not a conspiracy theory, lol. There are too many things that dont add up. Too much timing that makes no sense.
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Yeah, Shanny is using some "coach speak", which isn't necessarily bad IMO, but a lot of this drama is manufactured solely by leaks. As far as what the principals are actually saying: Shanny says he and Snyder are in a good relationship, and they'll talk about how each feels about things at seasons end, Kyle says he's not even involved in benching RG3, and Snyders publically acted like a model owner through Shanny's tenure. I wasn't crazy about seeing pics of Snyder with Shanny hanging out with RG3 before the draft, but nothing bad seemed to come from that.
As far as not benching RG3 early, yeah in the Seattle game it was obvious he was hurt on the what second TD drive, and I thought the staff was actually keeping RG3 away from Andrews, like when they went to some shelter behind the sidelines I didn't see Andrews go in with them. But I gave everybody the benefit of a doubt and kept rooting for RG3 to come back. To me in hindsight, the poor throws RG3 made playing hurt (OK, more hurt, he was basically on one good leg the Dallass game and the start of the SEA game, but we were winning) later on that game kinda seem like the poor throws he made this season (more inaccurate, more WTF direction long passes)
Anyways I'm running long now, but the start of this season seems like the Seattle game right after RG3 got hurt. Not throwing right, but staying in like last season so we could win, it just not working out like the last Dallas last season. All this drama about ulterior motives, it seems like a typical situation to me instead: Shanny trying to win now, RG3 always wanting to play, and Snyder letting it roll unlike he did in the past.
It's a real puzzler to me why RG3 was pulled now, with us being mathematically eliminated the Giants game not the Chiefs game, but I'm still thinking along the lines of Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice what could be stupidity. Maybe Shanny wasn't sure about sitting RG3. And if Shanny's doing the right thing now, why complaining about the decision to bench him? There's plenty legit stuff to complain about (record, defense, sure complain about the decision to start him wk 1), without trying to "mind read" complaining about the current decision to bench rg3. Again, especially if there's reasonable question it was the right thing to do.