I'll admit to being surprised by the amount of blame many of you are putting on Gruden for Robert's awful level of play. Yes, Jay has a lot to learn about handling the managerial and public aspects of the job, but I have never felt or had reason to believe he didn't give the tutelage of RG3 a genuine effort.
Until and unless I see or hear clear evidence to the contrary, my feeling is the failure is largely on the shoulders of the player in this case. It's not just that he hasn't been great, or even good, or even just average. It's that he's looked utterly lost within the framework of an NFL-level passing offense.
You all know what a big proponent I've been of the quarterback. And I take no pleasure in any of this continued drama being played out in the media world. But what my eyes have been screaming at me the last couple of weeks is that said quarterback has a very, very long way to go before he's ready to run a sustainable offense in this league.
I just can't put this one on the coach. Not based on what I've seen.
Here's my thing, Om. And maybe in my ignorance overall about football operations, I'm lost to the details. But, it seems to me that from the beginning, Jay said that it would be "foolish" to try to make Robert a pocket passer. Now, maybe that was his way of trying to throw off the rest of the League in what he was doing or what his plan was. Whatever the case, he did exactly what he said would be foolish to do. And let's face it, regardless of whether that was his plan all along or not, the process of changing a "read-option" QB into a pocket-passer is not an easy or quick one. In fact, I would almost say it's near impossible. And they don't seem to really want to give him a lot of that time needed.
That said, I am glad to see that we have a coach that is ballsy enough to make a move like this in an attempt to stir the flames & get wins. It is a bit refreshing in that manner. But I also have to question whether he is paying attention to everything that is going on or is he just focused on the QB because it almost seems to me like he is only focused on Robert. Now, maybe it's just that the QB position is so highly regarded, not just in football, but especially in Washington, that the focus is more the medias, not his. But, we see so many other players not performing on the field week in & week out, why is there such little attention paid to that? Why is it that the Defense is still in the hands of an incompetent boob? We all see it. We all know what's going on there. Yes, there are failures on the field, but many of those can be traced back to the lack of solid coaching, IMHO.
I see a weekly debacle in the O-Line & guys that seem to get lost in blocking just one guy & run thru trying to block one guy (and it's not always the best guy on the opponents D, either)...I find it difficult to blame the QB when he is struggling to trust the coaching staff behind him & the O-Line in front of him. No ground is stable for him, so it's really no surprise that he is shaky most of the time.
Anyway, that's what I see. If Colt can come in & start winning games, great. As I said in another post, I am first & foremost a Redskins fan. If this is what it takes to start winning games, so be it. W's are good period. I'm just not convinced that he'll be able to do things Robert wasn't able to because the O-Line is so bad. And if I were Robert & things got hairy with Colt at the helm & they came back to me asking me to take over again, I would say no & demand a trade & never play for the Redskins again. But, we'll see where we are at the end of the season. I am, as always, hoping for the best either way.
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