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Former GM Says Coach Wants to Bench Griffin
Former Redskins general manager Charley Casserly believes that coach Jay Gruden wants to bench Robert Griffin III and start Colt McCoy or Kirk Cousins.
McCoy won his only game this year against the Dallas Cowboys before giving way to Griffin upon the latter’s return a week later.
Cousins struggled in multiple starts, ultimately being benched in favor of McCoy.
Those scenarios lead to the thinking that McCoy would play if Griffin is indeed benched.
Casserly told NFL Network that the tension between Gruden and Griffin is putting the team on “a path of destruction.”
“Well, I'll tell you what, this is on a path of destruction right now. First of all, when you watch RGIII play, this was the worst game I’ve ever seen him play,” Casserly said of the Redskins loss to Tampa Bay on Sunday.
“Jay Gruden talked about the negatives. I don’t have to go through them anymore, but this is the worst game I’ve ever seen him play.”
“My gut is he would want to play one of the other two guys because they can run the system better,” Casserly added. “And the reality is they’ve played better and they’ve won with them.”
Casserly said that if owner Dan Snyder is pressuring Gruden to continue starting Griffin even if Gruden doesn’t want to, then Gruden should “make a stand.”
Redskins fans started chanting for McCoy, saying “We want Colt,” in the game against the Buccaneers.
Washington Post columnist Thomas Boswell says that Gruden “acted like a strong NFL head coach” when he “became the first man in the Washington football operation with the guts to be bluntly analytical, critical and honest about Robert Griffin III’s abilities as a quarterback and the ton of work he must do to master his craft.”
But he says what comes next is more important.
“If this is a candid cathartic moment that bonds Gruden and Griffin, convinces them that their futures are linked and they must help each other, few better things could happen to a franchise that’s been in the wilderness for most of 23 years,” he wrote.
“If Gruden’s remarks, pungent at face value and a punch in the mouth if taken the wrong way, are a wedge that divides the rookie coach from his quarterback, then send a Hazmat caravan to Ashburn pronto — toxic waste spill in progress.”
Boswell says that Gruden will likely give Griffin “every last chance” before he turns to McCoy or Cousins.
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