Originally Posted by HailGreen28
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.
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