RG3 in AFCN

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(03-24-2016, 06:43 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: If I were a Browns fan, I'd like the move. Griffin had enough talent to get some team to offer up a slew of draft picks just a few years ago. He was sensational as a rookie and he really wasn't all that bad in his other 2 seasons either.

People keep saying he's glass, but outside of his rookie season, when has he missed time due to injury? They intentionally sat him for the last 3 games of 2013 to "keep him healthy" (to get a look at Cousins). They benched him in 2014 after 7 games. They kept him benched last year.

So where is all this time missed due to injury? He's actually had 1 injury that caused him to miss time and then Shanny rushed him back for that playoff game before he was truly ready to go - which led to further injury of the same knee. His speed hasn't been the same since. Or at least it seems that way.

In short, if Hue can get RGIII to improve in the pocket (which seems possible, given his work with Dalton), then I think this could be a very good signing for the Browns. At the very least, RGIII is a decent QB as is.

I agree that if I were a Browns fan I would be excited. But that isn't hard when your previous QBs have been Manziel, McCown, Hoyer, Campbell, Weeden, etc.

That said, while he hasn't had the time to show he's made out of glass due to other things keeping him from ever playing enough, the point remains he's a 220 pound running QB and history has told us that running QBs don't survive long, let alone ones that aren't built like Cam Newton's 245 pounds or whatnot.

You have QBs like Russell Wilson and Alex Smith who are QBs that can run if they want to, but it isn't what their game revolves around. Any QB who's game revolves around running the ball will get broken in the NFL and if you're not a giant, it'll happen sooner rather than later.

Heck, even Ben Roethlisberger even though he's not a "running" QB, is a play extending scrambling QB and he's played 16 games in a season 3 times in 12 years despite being 240 pounds according to NFL.com. (Lol, as if he's actually freaking 240 pounds and 5 pounds lighter than Cam Newton. Just like Bob Sanders was never 5'8")