{"id":10868,"date":"2014-08-10T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2014-08-10T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:35:40","slug":"robert-griffin-not-best-quarterback-on-team-says-espn-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/08\/10\/robert-griffin-not-best-quarterback-on-team-says-espn-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Griffin not best quarterback on team says ESPN writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10869\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins.jpg\" alt=\"Getty Images\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/08\/griffincousins-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nRobert Griffin III is now a full year removed from his knee surgery. There is a new coach in town and yet questions about the quarterback&#8217;s techniques are being questioned.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Boston writer <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/blog\/boston\/new-england-patriots\/post\/_\/id\/4765960\/quick-hit-thoughts-around-nfl-patriots-19?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mike Reiss<\/a> offered the following take on Griffin this morning after watching joint practices between the Redskins and Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of my biggest takeaways from Patriots-Redskins joint practices was surprise that Robert Griffin III didn\u2019t look like the best quarterback on his own team. In fact, I thought Kirk Cousins was better than him, from the perspective of running the offense, fine-tuned mechanics and how decisively the ball came out of his hand. I wondered if I was alone, and then heard the same sentiment echoed by some others in the Patriots organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Redskins considered trading Cousins this offseason but were apparently looking for a second round pick. He will return to the team to be Griffin&#8217;s backup.<\/p>\n<p>Any analysis of Cousins right now is likely to be skewed a bit by his 9-of-13 for 103 yards and a touchdown in the preseason opener against the Patriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Griffin III is now a full year removed from his knee surgery. There is a new coach in town and yet questions about the quarterback&#8217;s techniques are being questioned. ESPN Boston writer Mike Reiss offered the following take on Griffin this morning after watching joint practices between the Redskins and Patriots. &#8220;One of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[197,216,53,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kirk-cousins","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-robert-griffin-iii","11":"tag-washington-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10870,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}