01-07-2013, 05:17 PM
"I'm the quarterback, it doesn't matter what percentage I am," Griffin reasoned later. "If you can play, you play."
This is the most telling part. I don't think he's arrogant, I think he was just trying to be gallant and show heart in the face of an injury. The problem is that as a rookie, he is not equipped with the experience to know 1) Why this is bad for the team int he short term and 2) Why this could be bad for the team in the long term. Again, I don't think he was being selfish... but in being selfless he was actually not being a team player.
That's where the coach should have said, "You're a rookie and you don't know shit. Sit your ass down." Of course, had he put Cousins in and they lost the game, the press would be saying they should have left him in 'cause a hurt RG3 is better than Cousins.
This is the most telling part. I don't think he's arrogant, I think he was just trying to be gallant and show heart in the face of an injury. The problem is that as a rookie, he is not equipped with the experience to know 1) Why this is bad for the team int he short term and 2) Why this could be bad for the team in the long term. Again, I don't think he was being selfish... but in being selfless he was actually not being a team player.
That's where the coach should have said, "You're a rookie and you don't know shit. Sit your ass down." Of course, had he put Cousins in and they lost the game, the press would be saying they should have left him in 'cause a hurt RG3 is better than Cousins.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth