Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III (10) celebrates a touchdown during the first half of an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, in Landover, Md. (PHOTO CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
NBC’s Rodney Harrison is not one short of opinions or, during his playing days, 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. However, Harrison did sort of see this whole Robert Griffin III thing coming in Washington, long before most people did, and it’s for one simple reason: He thinks RG3 is a jerk.
Here’s Harrison, talking about the Redskins quarterback situation and Griffin in particular, to the Spiegel and Goff show (via the DC Sports Bog):
“Well first and foremost, we see every week that there’s a lot of bad quarterback play, so I think we’re used to that. What we don’t see is guys being jerks at the quarterback position. And Robert Griffin III was a jerk. He was a flat-out jerk. And when you look at Kirk Cousins, he comes and he says all the right things. And he’s trying, he’s fighting, his team is out there supporting him, he’s doing everything he can to win.
“We understand that you’re not going to be Tom Brady, you’re not a future Hall of Famer. But I think we do respect that a guy’s out there fighting. You look at [Josh] McCown for the Cleveland Browns; he didn’t play particularly well a couple weeks ago, he comes back and throws for [457] yards or whatever it was. But I think we respect guys that work hard and try to do the right thing and stay humble. Robert Griffin didn’t do that, and he lost the respect of his teammates, as well as the guys in the media.”
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SOURCE: USA Today, Chris Chase
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