New Report Says RG3 Bragged To Teammates About Being Able To Influence Dan Snyder on the Direction of the Team
Post - Instead, any head coaching candidate will be hesitant about working with a player whose rampant owner-empowered entitlement was clearly part of the team’s problem this season. Once, Griffin was an immensely likable, unpretentious kid who was wide open to collaboration. But according to insiders, Griffin’s public campaign to have the offense altered for him was just the tip of his egotism in his second year. Behind closed doors, Griffin had fierce finger-pointing tensions with his wide receivers, and he bragged to teammates that he could procure favors from the owner and influence the franchise’s direction.
Sally Jenkins wrote a piece in the Post where she took RG3 to school and back again. But this was the only real take-away in a long Mean Girls-esque slam book aimed at Griffin. I’m not sure I agree with her, a close personal friend of Mike Shanahan, slamming RG3 pretty hard out of nowhere, but it is what it is.
But what I’m left with wondering if it’s true, if I’m okay with it. Should the guy who was drafted to be the franchise QB have a say in the head coach hiring? On one hand, as it is right now, the offense for the foreseeable future will run through Griffin. So you will want a guy he gets along easy with and has chemistry with in the football sense. You don’t want a coach that RG3 dislikes, it’s just not the most productive decision.
On the other hand, RG3 is still just one of 53 players. He is paid to do his job, and the coach is paid to his. RG3 is not guaranteed to start any given game, and is injury prone. Would it be smart to base a head coaching decision on one player who was deactivated for the last 3 games of the season? It’s risky.
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My opinion is that they should keep RG3 in mind when interviewing head coaching candidates, but I’m sure they do that anyway. I’m sure 80% of the interview is about RG3. But he shouldn’t personally have any say in the head coaching decision. The second you let one player not named Peyton Manning or Tom Brady become bigger than the team, you cause all sorts of problems. And the Skins have enough problems as it is.