No, I gotcha. I'm looking at it with the benefit of hindsight. Griffin's rookie season I did think he was too self centered and wasn't a guy that his team mates would love, but I didn't know he would fail.
Another thing I saw very early on was how smart Shanahan was being with RG3. Simple reads, splitting the field in half..... it was brilliant and I said so back in 2012. All Bob had to do was either hand it to Morris, or drop back and make one read. If that read was covered, then just take off and make the defense pay with his legs. No real NFL style reading of the defense and what's more, the defenses just didn't know what to do with the read option in his rookie year.
It was all going for him and they picked up first downs and scored TD's.
Once team's figured out how to stop the read option and Shanahan asked Griff to actually digest an NFL defense and decipher it... the game was up.
That's why I laugh when people use RG3 as an example of how Dak might come back down to Earth in year 2. Dak ran a normal NFL offense and has been reading the defenses and making good decisions since day 1. There is nothing much for defenses to figure out about Dak. The real conundrum is: load up to stop Elliott and risk the passing game or try to stop Dak and let Zeke run amok.
great reply
Nothing will have changed since last year except hopefully the defense is a little better and Dak and company have more shots at the ball.
