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Originally Posted by NC_Skins

His faith in Robert would definitely impact the game plan, there is no doubt to that. His lack of faith in Robert shouldn't dictate the play by Robert though.

It might not "dictate" but it certainly impacts the result.

As an instructor and former youth coach I can tell you without a doubt that belief or lack of thereof in a player or student can become a self fulfilling prophesy. And clearly there are things that Jay didn't do last year that had negtive impact on Griffin's performance. We've been over some of them and many of them are things the staff and media have already made talking points about how they're gonna change this year. The same concepts and philosophy that could have been used to develop Griffin are many of the same concepts that are part of winning formula. Run the ball, which we didn't do enough. Use more play-action, which we didn't do enough. Move the pocket, which we didn't do enough. Throw mix in more screen game, which we didn't do enough. The problem is those concepts aren't how Jay called his offense last year and don't neccesarily fit his vision of his offense. Maybe he's changed. Time will tell. But to say that Jay's faith in Griffin would definitely impact the gameplan then by extention it impacts the result.

Here is the problem. They tailored an offense around Griffin's abilities and won. However, Griffin didn't want to run that offense. This had been clearly backed up by multiple inside sources (direct and indirect) during that 2012 year. Griffin wanted to be a pocket passer and didn't want to run the offense tailored to him. He saw himself as a Peyton Manning, but never wanted to put in the film room time that Peyton Manning did. He knew the RO wasn't going to keep him around long health wise. Yes I believe Shanny when he said Robert came in there with blessing from the owner on what to run that following off-season.

Here we go with this slanted narrative. Beginning of 2013 fresh off recovering from a shredded knee would you want to be running read-option to start the season? Is that so crazy that a kid, and he is a kid, would be wary even nervous about it? And guess what? Coaches are paid the big dollars to handle situations like that. Everyone acts like the resulting outcome had to be bad following whatever Griffin said about not wanting to run read option to start the season after recovering from a torn MCL/LCL whatever. It could have been something as simple as "..hey kid I understand. You tore up your knee and you're nervous maybe even scared about...blah..blah soothing father figure arm on the shoulder we're in this together moment". Then deal with the owner later. Whatever. Shanny handled it poorly and he's done and rightfully so.

Also to put facts on the table Griffin DID IN FACT RUN READ OPTION AS EARLY AS WEEK 4 of the 2013 season. Yet for some reason the tiny little fact that Griffin actually ran read-option that year gets over looked. Your boy, Shanny even said that Griffin came to him and said ~coach I'm ready to run it now.

Yes I believe Shanny when he said that he wasn't ready for a conventional offense yet, but had the ability to do it eventually. So this still falls on Robert somewhat for not being coach-able. This is two coaches now that has said the exact same thing.

Huh? Back to double talking Shanny. Yes he did say Griffin's transtion would take time so we hired a HC that didn't hire a QB coach and decided he was ready to give up on the transition process before the regular season starts. And that's Griffin's fault for being uncoachable?

Its been an interesting look into how the otherside thinks. But at this point, i guess we'll have to agree to disagree.