Skins-Jags Positives and Negatives

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Originally Posted by Mattyk

I think people are trying too hard to stick with the narrative that Griffin's playing style opens him up for injury. Rolling out and throwing on the run is something all QBs do, sometimes several times a game. It's unfortunate he landed wrong on that ankle, but injuries happen and sometimes they can't be prevented.

You're right.

People made snap decisions about Griffin when the draft pick trade was announced. They made snap decisions about Cousins when he was drafted shortly after Griffin.

The 2+ years since have been all about those people using any opportunity to justify/defend their snap decision and/or attacking other people's snap decision.

The only thing that's for sure is that we're starting to run out of time in terms of evaluating these two and picking one (assuming one hasn't already been picked, of course.)

The team has a team option clause on Griffin's contract, so we can pick him up for a 5th year whether he wants to be here or not (in the case of Cousins winning the job and Griffin being relegated to backup duty, or in case of injury)

We don't have such an option with Cousins. He's not going to stay here to be a backup. If we haven't committed to him as a starter by the time FA opens for the 2016 season, he's gone. If we don't trade him by the deadline in 2015, he'll walk and we'll get nothing for him.

All of which is really a topic to worry about in the off season, so I'm not investing much time in it now. But these are conversations that are going to matter. I personally think Griffin is a hell of a quarterback and can be an elite level quarterback in this league, I also think people are grossly exaggerating the mount of work needed to make him an elite QB. But it doesn't matter how good he is or how much potential he has if he can't stay healthy. If he's out for the season he'll be going into his 4th season with 1 healthy/ready season under his belt, his rookie season, and that's going to create some interesting/tough decisions...