Washington Redskins coach Jay Gruden has strong words for Robert Griffin III. Griffin had ripped his team mates before in which DeSean Jackson had shot back at him. But the coach did not want to have their words minced and twisted by reporters.
Gruden had some tough loving for his player, Griffin, who had too many mistakes for a game on last Sunday's 27-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Gruden said "Robert had some fundamental flaws. He did. His footwork was below average. He took three-step drops when he should have taken five, he took one-step drops when he should have taken three - on a couple of occasions. That can't happen. He stepped up when he didn't have to step up, and stepped into pressure. He read the wrong side of the field a couple of times. From his basic performance, just critiquing Robert, it was not even close to being good enough for what we expect from that quarterback position."
Gruden specifically gave out the mistakes that his team made, not only by Grffin but also to the rest. He stated that Perry Riley should have blitzed but didn't on a long Mike Evans touchdown.
Because of the surge of emotion during their loss, Griffin let out some team saying he needs to do better but the rest of the team should do the same. He said "It takes 11 men. It doesn't take one guy, and that's proven. If you want to look at the good teams in this league and the great quarterbacks, the Peytons and the Aaron Rodgers, those guys don't play well if their guys don't play well. They don't. We need everybody. I need every one of those guys in that locker room, and I know they're looking at me saying the same thing."
Because of this, Jackson said on Instagram that you "You can't do epic [expletive] with basic people."
To all of this ruckus, this is what the coach had to say "I don't know exactly what DeSean meant but I think he was frustrated a little bit with what came out about Robert."
And this is what Gruden had to say of Griffin's words "First of all, Robert needs to understand he needs to worry about himself, number one, and not everybody else. It's his job to worry about his position, his footwork, his fundamentals, his reads, his progressions, his job at the quarterback position. It's my job to worry about everybody else. Yes, everybody else needs to improve, there's no question about it. It's not his place. His place is to talk about himself. He knows that. He just elaborated a little too much. He'll learn from it. He's 24 years old."
