Anonymous wrote:Oh, please. Griffin has been extraordinarily poised and humble in the face of white-hot media attention all season and the pressure of the never-ending Internet. And all this at age 22. So he makes what some view as a mistake at the end. It doesn't take away from the magic he created all season. Look how many young men in sports are total jerks. RG3 is not among them.

RGIII has Hall of Fame potential if he can play for ten seasons, but that may not happen now and if that's the situation it would be a gigantic tragedy for this fine young man and hundreds of thousands Redskins fans who have patiently waited approx. 18 years for this kind of a franchise player to come along. He has great athletic abilities, a strong work ethic, leadership skills, well spoken and a team player until the end. You'll hear cries of agony deep in the wilderness if RGIII's knee is permanently damaged.

If his knee is seriously injured it will not end his career, but it will end his hope for greatness and a place in the Hall of Fame. The key to RGIII's greatness is his ability to run with the ball. His ability to run makes options available to him that most other quarterbacks do no possess. Should this injury remove that aspect of the game from his arsenal of options he'll be forced to live out the rest of his career trying to recreate that former greatness or become a pocket passer. Unfortunately, neither of these strategies will work.

At 100% he has the potential to be one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game, but at the kind of diminished capacity which this injury could cause slowing him down just by fractions of seconds on turns and cuts as he runs will be enough to derail his career. Without the ability to be a run threat would totally change the dynamics of his game. His ability to gains yards on the ground makes every other aspect of his game better too.

Brady and the Mannings don't usually don't run the ball, but their skills sets are different from those of RGIII. Take the running game away from RGIII and he will never be a great quarterback. He'll just be one more guy that had a good rookie year and then never seemed to reach his full potential.

RGIII is a Frachise Player and he should have been protected by Shanahan and he was not!!!

SHANAHAN MUST GO!!!

Having said that, I also want to point out that the Seattle Seahawks played one of the dirtiest games I've ever seen in my life. Once the Redskins were leading by 14 points the number of illegal after-the-play hits were nothing short of criminal. Seriously, the attack on Garcone when he was body slammed to the ground happened long after the whistle had blown and the helmet-to-helmet hit on RGIII happened after the ball had been thrown and the pass was already blown incomplete. The Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll clearly told his players to go out on the field and to injure players on the Redskins team.

What Pete Carroll did was not coaching, it was an act of criminal violence. Pete Carroll is a criminal who ruined the USC football program and now his players are trying to injure and ruin the careers of opposing NFL Football Teams. Pete Carroll needs to be banned from football for life.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP, but I'd take it one step further. Shanahan should be fired!!!! RGIII was injured and he could not perform well enough after the first quarter to win the game. Poor coaching cost the Redskins a playoff game and may have cost RGIII his career. When RG went down in the 4th quarter his knee bent sideways!!!! Sure - he walked off the field, but that's only because he was already wearing a knee brace that could support him. His knee very well may be mangled inside. It doesn't matter that RGIII wanted to stay in the game. Where were the grown ups tonight??? The coaches have the responsibility to do everything in their power to win their games and to protect their players. Shanahan did neither of those two things tonight.

Shanahan must GO!!!!

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Oh, please. Griffin has been extraordinarily poised and humble in the face of white-hot media attention all season and the pressure of the never-ending Internet. And all this at age 22. So he makes what some view as a mistake at the end. It doesn't take away from the magic he created all season. Look how many young men in sports are total jerks. RG3 is not among them.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP, but I'd take it one step further. Shanahan should be fired!!!! RGIII was injured and he could not perform well enough after the first quarter to win the game. Poor coaching cost the Redskins a playoff game and may have cost RGIII his career. When RG went down in the 4th quarter his knee bent sideways!!!! Sure - he walked off the field, but that's only because he was already wearing a knee brace that could support him. His knee very well may be mangled inside. It doesn't matter that RGIII wanted to stay in the game. Where were the grown ups tonight??? The coaches have the responsibility to do everything in their power to win their games and to protect their players. Shanahan did neither of those two things tonight.

Shanahan must GO!!!!

I agree. Considering what the Skins gave up to get him, they should protect their investments better. A 100% Cousins is still better than a 50% RG3. Bad choices all around.

I do have to say that RG3 saying that he's their best option to win was arrogant and immature. He wasn't the best option way before the knee injury. I'm not a skins fan, but I hope he didn't ruin his career for this game and hopefully they'll teach him something about team work and being a team player during the offseason.

Anonymous wrote:I agree with OP, but I'd take it one step further. Shanahan should be fired!!!! RGIII was injured and he could not perform well enough after the first quarter to win the game. Poor coaching cost the Redskins a playoff game and may have cost RGIII his career. When RG went down in the 4th quarter his knee bent sideways!!!! Sure - he walked off the field, but that's only because he was already wearing a knee brace that could support him. His knee very well may be mangled inside. It doesn't matter that RGIII wanted to stay in the game. Where were the grown ups tonight??? The coaches have the responsibility to do everything in their power to win their games and to protect their players. Shanahan did neither of those two things tonight.

Shanahan must GO!!!!

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Shanahan's a disgrace and a poor coach. If RGIII wanted to stay in, that's when the coach tells him, too bad, I'm the coach. For crying out loud, the man was limping around on the field, and Shanny kept him in?!

I agree with OP, but I'd take it one step further. Shanahan should be fired!!!! RGIII was injured and he could not perform well enough after the first quarter to win the game. Poor coaching cost the Redskins a playoff game and may have cost RGIII his career. When RG went down in the 4th quarter his knee bent sideways!!!! Sure - he walked off the field, but that's only because he was already wearing a knee brace that could support him. His knee very well may be mangled inside. It doesn't matter that RGIII wanted to stay in the game. Where were the grown ups tonight??? The coaches have the responsibility to do everything in their power to win their games and to protect their players. Shanahan did neither of those two things tonight.

Shanahan must GO!!!!

They had an awesome season, but agree with the rest of OP's post.

They had an awesome season, but agree with the rest of OP's post.

How can you call this a lackluster season?? What a moronic backseat coach you are.

Shanahan should have taken RG3 out waaay early in the game. RG3 should have conceded that he's too injured to play a quality game. Cousins is not an RG3-caliber player but he has proven himself more than capable at QB. The Redskins will continue to have lackluster seasons as long as they made bone-headed decisions like the one they made today.

This is not a sermon...