{"id":12688,"date":"2014-11-17T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12688"},"modified":"2014-11-17T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T20:33:00","slug":"redskins-not-benching-robert-griffin-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/11\/17\/redskins-not-benching-robert-griffin-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Redskins not benching Robert Griffin III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/robertgriffiniii.jpg\" alt=\"robertgriffiniii\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/robertgriffiniii.jpg 576w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/09\/robertgriffiniii-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><br \/>\nDespite a poor performance in Sunday&#8217;s loss the Redskins are not ready to bench quarterback Robert Griffin III.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jay Gruden did note that Griffin and the Redskins offense showed &#8220;fundamental flaws&#8221; and that the quarterback was &#8220;not even close&#8221; to having the right footwork. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Redskins?src=hash\">#Redskins<\/a> HC Jay Gruden &quot;That&#39;s the plan, yes.&quot; on Robert Griffin III starting Sunday. &quot;We don&#39;t anticipate bad.&quot; if they are considering.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Russell (@Russellmania980) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Russellmania980\/status\/534436556975525888\">November 17, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Griffin will continue to start for the Redskins while fans take time to call for Colt McCoy after every misstep. Kirk Cousins is not an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a poor performance in Sunday&#8217;s loss the Redskins are not ready to bench quarterback Robert Griffin III. Head coach Jay Gruden did note that Griffin and the Redskins offense showed &#8220;fundamental flaws&#8221; and that the quarterback was &#8220;not even close&#8221; to having the right footwork. #Redskins HC Jay Gruden &quot;That&#39;s the plan, yes.&quot; on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[216,53,55],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-robert-griffin-iii","10":"tag-washington-redskins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688","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=12688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12689,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12688\/revisions\/12689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12688"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}