Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said Monday that he felt “dumb†after reviewing the play Sunday on which quarterback Robert Griffin III went out for a pass and took a hard hit from Steelers safety Ryan Clark, Mike Jones of the Washington Post reports. The coach said he should not have subjected his franchise quarterback to such risk of injury. On the play, Griffin flipped the ball to receiver Josh Morgan on a reverse to the right and then ran out of the backfield on a pass route. Griffin had to slow up for the pass thrown by Morgan as the ball hung in the air and pushed off cornerback Ike Taylor, drawing an offensive pass interference penalty. The ball bounced off Griffin’s hands, and a split second later, Clark flew in from the right and leveled Griffin. “After looking at that play, you feel like a complete dumb-s— because you want him to be wide open,†Shanahan said on Monday. “I’ve run that play probably 10, 15 times with [John] Elway, probably 20 times or more with Steve Young, and with Robert, what you usually do is against the right defense – which is man coverage – no one usually accounts for the quarterback and he’s by himself out there.†Source: The Redzone
eh, i don't know. there are a lot of rules to protect receivers too. they probably could have run that play and just had rg3 be a decoy and someone else be the primary but i don't have a major problem with it.
clark was sprinting so fast from the center of the field to catch up with the play, i wonder if he even realized it was rg3 ..............
