Robert Griffin III’s lackluster performance on Monday Night Football was so lackluster, it prompted his father (RG2) to make an unorthodox postgame visit to the Redskins locker room and an opposing linebacker to voice his opinion that the hobbled second-year quarterback should not even be on the field.
Griffin finished 17 for 27 for just 127 yards with an interception and was sacked four times in a 27-6 loss to the 49ers that kept the Redskins to the NFC East cellar at 3-8, a season after they won the division. The Redskins netted 190 yards total.
“We’ve got to conquer some of the demons that we have going on as an offense,” Griffin said, “and just as a team in general.”
After getting an up-close look at Griffin, who had surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee in January and returned for Week 1, 49ers linebacker Ahmad Brooks said last year’s Offensive Rookie of the Year is not fully recovered and should not be playing.
“He’s a man, he has the heart of a warrior and is going to go out there and play regardless of the circumstance,” Brooks said, according to CSN Washington. “Everybody can see it. Everybody can see it. He shouldn’t be playing.”
And to add slapstick insult to lingering injury, Griffin was scissor-kicked in the worst possible area by Aldon Smith during the depressing rout.
With AP