Robert Griffin III's lies, Mike Shanahan's poor management doom Redskins in playoffs

yahoo sports ^ | Dan Wetzel

[Alaska Wolf]

I didn't watch that game.

You didn't have to watch the game to know that he was playing with a previous injury. Remember he left the Falcon's game early in the 2nd half and didn't play against the Browns.

I'd guess that at least before Dallas he had time to get the right medical procedures and tests done to determine that he could indeed attempt to play.

The NFL is a business, it is not intercollegiate athletics. The players know it. They are in many cases paid more for a single game than most people make a year. There is a reason they risk their bodies. You and I may not agree, but they aren't being forced to play football. Like the little girl in the State Farm commercial says to Aaron Rogers in regards to being an NFL quarterback, "That isn't a job".

[Hot Tabasco]

Uh, perhaps, refuses to believe he can’t go on.

Or the coach refuses to see that he can't?

Therefore claims he can.

And the coach is too dumb to see that he can't????

Sorry but RG's attempt to do what any other injured competitor would do is not a condemnation on him. It's Shanahan's blindness to the fact that RG wasn't playing up to standards and left him in that should be condemned, not RG...

[mmichaels1970]

You didn't have to watch the game to know that he was playing with a previous injury

Entering a game with a previous injury to me is far different from an injury being far worsened during the game. Like I said, in the days before a game, adequate time and tests can be taken to clear an athlete to play.

When an athlete with a prior history of ACL has a knee get so obviously injured during the course of the game, it is time to bench him and repeat the process.