Robert Griffin III ready to turn career around with Redskins in 2015

[WillH]

Originally Posted by kct1975

Excellent breakdown!

The points made made in this article, and the points made in a few other article posted, about RG3 not moving around in the pocket enough, all go back to what I, and others have said...

It looks like RG3 has lost his confidence.

Basically, it seems that RG3 "thinks too much" when he takes the snap and drops back.

My opinion, as to why he gets sacked so much is...

1. He focuses too much on the primary target, and the secondary targets,down field.

He doesn't seem to be aware of what is going on around him. Which is one of the reasons that he doesn't seem to move to the left or right to avoid the rush.

2. As the linked article points out, he doesn't seem to have enough faith in the offensive plays to stick with the play as-called, and is too ready to 'check-down'. Also RG3 seems to have lost faith in his ability to 'thread-the-needle'

So, IMHO, it seems that the problems that RG3 has are mostly confidence related.

Unfortunately, I have seen that kind of thing before, with players like David Woodley, Derrick Carr, ect.

I'm not disagreeing about performance, but these two thoughts on the reason for his struggles seems to be contradictory.

He only looks downfield at primary receivers, but he checks down too much?

It seems to me, that would be like saying: He stays in the pocket too long when he should scramble, but gives up on the play and runs too often.

I don't know, maybe it's all of the above at different times, but these seem like symtoms and not diagnosees. Which I think would support your confidence theory.

But, IMO, I think the O-line is the root cause. How can he improve if he is being trounced constantly? I have always felt it was a mistake to invest in QB when our line sucked so much.

So at this point, even if he is hopeless, why move on and risk the next franchise QB being 'ruined' by piss poor pass protection?