RG3 whole draft scouting report was about how he’s an electric runner, bails early doesn’t slide or throw the ball away and takes too many hits, because of putting his body at risk.
Shanahan didn’t even want to draft him, because he knew RG3 couldn’t play in a pro-style offense and he was a Snyder pick. Shanahan drafted Cousins as well, who was more of a pocket passer than RG3 ever was.
RG3 was an exception among the QBs of the Shanahan system that includes guys like Matt Ryan, besides to many, the greatest QB ever in Elway. Pure pocket QBs.
https://theanalyst.com/na/2022/02/m...bowl-lvi-los-angeles-rams-cincinnati-bengals/
Shanahan was fine with drafting RG3, he wasn't fond of the picks they had to give up to move up to get him. He admitted that more than once on an a radio show here.
With Griffin, something else was going on.
The designed quarterback running plays that had become a staple of the offense were mostly missing from the Cousins game plan (the backup had only one designed run). Griffin was furious that Cousins was not asked to assume the same risks that the Shanahans seemed so comfortable making him take. The chasm between the young star and Washington’s father-son coaching tandem would only worsen.
Feb. 5, 2013 — Griffin called for a meeting. He declined to tell Mike Shanahan what he wanted to discuss, saying only it was important. Griffin, Mike and Kyle Shanahan and quarterbacks coach Matt LaFleur gathered in the offensive meeting room at the team headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia. With the coaches seated, Griffin walked to a blackboard and wrote:
- Change things.
- Change our protections.
- Unacceptable.
- Bottom line.
Griffin instructed the coaches to let him speak uninterrupted and rolled through a list of grievances, stressing that substantive changes had to occur immediately. Scrap the pass protection scheme and start over, Griffin demanded. There were 19 plays — primarily those from the 50-series and quarterback draws — that were unacceptable. Griffin, who supported his presentation with video clips of each play, expected them to be deleted from the playbook. Bottom line, Griffin said, he was a drop-back quarterback — not a running quarterback.
https://andscape.com/features/the-puzzling-plummet-of-rgiii/