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Just when you thought the situation in Washington couldn't get any weirder, this gets dropped on us. So for those who weren't paying attention, let me some up the last 2 weeks or so.
-RG3 looks completely lost in a preseason game against Detroit and leaves with what announcers said at the time was a shoulder injury (no significant blow to the head happened on that play). Announcers later say he is going through the concussion protocols.
-RG3 is cleared for non-contact drills early in the week and when questioned about the concussion, he says something along the lines of, "I don't know if I had a concussion, you have to ask the doctor." He went on to clarify that he was in the locker room when they told him he had to go through the protocols. Throughout the week, Gruden and everyone indicates that the "Independent Specialist" is saying Griffin will be cleared and be able start against Baltimore.
-Friday afternoon, after all the local sports talk radio shows go off the air, it is released that Griffin has not cleared the concussion protocols that the "Independent Specialist" put him through and will be evaluated again in a week or so and that Kirk Cousins will start on Saturday.
-Prior to the game on Saturday, ESPN begins reporting that Cousins will actually get the nod in week 1 of the regular season. And after the game on Saturday, Gruden announces that Kirk will start the entire 2015 season, claiming it's "his team."
-Team maintains that all week the "Independent Specialist" who works for the NFL, not them, indicated that everything looked good, then on Friday, it didn't.
-GM Scot McLoughan's wife starts spreading rumors that her husband was ESPN's source as he was giving the information to his new side chick.
-The "Independent Specialist" resigns from his post...
To me, this just screams of Snyder's involvement. It's no secret that Gruden think Cousins and McCoy are better QBs and it's also no secret that Snyder is a huge fan of Griffin. Instead of letting the football people make a football decision, it seems that there may not have been a concussion or at the very least the decision to hold him out was not a medical decision, but instead was the only way Gruden and possibly McLoughan could get away with starting Cousins over RG3.
Just when you thought the situation in Washington couldn't get any weirder, this gets dropped on us. So for those who weren't paying attention, let me some up the last 2 weeks or so.
-RG3 looks completely lost in a preseason game against Detroit and leaves with what announcers said at the time was a shoulder injury (no significant blow to the head happened on that play). Announcers later say he is going through the concussion protocols.
-RG3 is cleared for non-contact drills early in the week and when questioned about the concussion, he says something along the lines of, "I don't know if I had a concussion, you have to ask the doctor." He went on to clarify that he was in the locker room when they told him he had to go through the protocols. Throughout the week, Gruden and everyone indicates that the "Independent Specialist" is saying Griffin will be cleared and be able start against Baltimore.
-Friday afternoon, after all the local sports talk radio shows go off the air, it is released that Griffin has not cleared the concussion protocols that the "Independent Specialist" put him through and will be evaluated again in a week or so and that Kirk Cousins will start on Saturday.
-Prior to the game on Saturday, ESPN begins reporting that Cousins will actually get the nod in week 1 of the regular season. And after the game on Saturday, Gruden announces that Kirk will start the entire 2015 season, claiming it's "his team."
-Team maintains that all week the "Independent Specialist" who works for the NFL, not them, indicated that everything looked good, then on Friday, it didn't.
-GM Scot McLoughan's wife starts spreading rumors that her husband was ESPN's source as he was giving the information to his new side chick.
-The "Independent Specialist" resigns from his post...
To me, this just screams of Snyder's involvement. It's no secret that Gruden think Cousins and McCoy are better QBs and it's also no secret that Snyder is a huge fan of Griffin. Instead of letting the football people make a football decision, it seems that there may not have been a concussion or at the very least the decision to hold him out was not a medical decision, but instead was the only way Gruden and possibly McLoughan could get away with starting Cousins over RG3.
