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It's awful hard to make it through a Sportcast that involves QB discussions without having RG3 and 100% come up. I think there's a great deal of confusion about what that really means. It's being used as a medical term by Dr. Andrews, RG3, And the Redskins FO. But that's purely a medical term. It's not the same as saying he's 100% in terms of what he can do on a football field. Many folks don't seem to understand that while his knee IS healed and it IS structurally sound (ie he can cut or take the same amount of force in a blow the the knee as he could before -more probably, by all accounts his knee is actually MORE sound than it was before) that doesn't mean he's 100% as the Athlete Robert Griffin.
People expect 100% level production out of him because he's 100% medically but there is a huge disconnect on the reason for his lack of productivity. After having watched 4 games now and more than a small sampling it's exceedingly obvious to me what his problem's are and they are two fold.
1. It's just in his head and he has to "get his mojo back". His timing is off because his leg doesn't work like it used to...YET. He's still building leg strength, flexibility anbd muscle memory. There's no way around that but time and repetition.
2. Muscle Atrophy in his quads specifically (remember he had BOTH knees worked on). It only takes a few weeks to lose enough muscle that it takes a good year to regenerate and that's WITH a hardcore workout routine. This is what made AP's recovery so astounding...not his ability to get back on a field but his ability to regenerate that muscle he lost and come back with such a burst. Still took him over 8 weeks (including pre-season) for him to be at the top of his game. If you asked him I bet he admits that he never was all the way 100% in his quad and hamstring strength last year. I think this is affecting RG3 a LOT more than anyone on the outside knows. He has NO burst or acceleration but is still fast top end. That's classic acl recovery issues and it's why MOST athletes even with modern medicine aren't back to 100% Speed wise until their 2nd season back. RG3 will continue to improve but we probably won't see that burst from a stop again until next season and until we do the O will continue to be limited in it's scope by comparison to last year.
People expect 100% level production out of him because he's 100% medically but there is a huge disconnect on the reason for his lack of productivity. After having watched 4 games now and more than a small sampling it's exceedingly obvious to me what his problem's are and they are two fold.
1. It's just in his head and he has to "get his mojo back". His timing is off because his leg doesn't work like it used to...YET. He's still building leg strength, flexibility anbd muscle memory. There's no way around that but time and repetition.
2. Muscle Atrophy in his quads specifically (remember he had BOTH knees worked on). It only takes a few weeks to lose enough muscle that it takes a good year to regenerate and that's WITH a hardcore workout routine. This is what made AP's recovery so astounding...not his ability to get back on a field but his ability to regenerate that muscle he lost and come back with such a burst. Still took him over 8 weeks (including pre-season) for him to be at the top of his game. If you asked him I bet he admits that he never was all the way 100% in his quad and hamstring strength last year. I think this is affecting RG3 a LOT more than anyone on the outside knows. He has NO burst or acceleration but is still fast top end. That's classic acl recovery issues and it's why MOST athletes even with modern medicine aren't back to 100% Speed wise until their 2nd season back. RG3 will continue to improve but we probably won't see that burst from a stop again until next season and until we do the O will continue to be limited in it's scope by comparison to last year.
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