The Washington Redskins and Robert Griffin III look to be mounting a determined effort this season to decide if they are really right for one another. Head coach Jay Gruden says he wants his quarterback to be patient, and that he's coming to the realization how just how hard he'll have to work to keep his job.
Griffin seems to be more humble in this year's training camp, settling into the changes the team's offense is making, and the changes he'll have to make himself to conform to it.
"They're not asking me to be Superman," Griffin said, via Monday Morning Quarterback.
"They are asking me to be basic and take the plays that are there. If that's what Jay wants me to do, that's what I am going to do. It doesn't mean you take everything out of your game. When those opportunities come up to make plays out of the pocket, I will do it and not think twice about it. But if they are asking me to do the ordinary, that's what I am going to have to do."
The ordinary is something that has largely evaded Griffin's tenure in Washington. After a thriving rookie campaign in 2012, he took growing issue translating his former collegiate greatness against pro defenses. He faltered in the read-option last season, in which he played to a Heisman Trophy with Baylor, so the Redskins this time around are looking to establish him as a pocket quarterback.
Gruden said a greater focus will be placed on the ground game and the team made an investment in Brandon Scherff at right tackle to help create and sustain a pocket for Griffin to throw from.
Griffin said he's more comfortable playing his second season in Gruden's scheme. But if that comfort fails to translate into a marked improvement in his style and production, the Redskins may finally be confronted with the possibility of looking elsewhere at the position.
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