How can I put this eloquently?
This is STUPID.
Schlereth was asked at the end of NFL Live what he thought of RG3’s new logo and here is what he had to say courtesy of Washington Post.
“It was kind of a throwaway comment at the end of NFL Live,” Schlereth explained on Mike and Mike this week, when asked how he attracted the ire of #RGIIINation. “Trey [Wingo] asked me and Mark Brunell what we thought. And I’m like I understand if you create a logo for your foundation, or I understand if Adidas creates a logo because they’re releasing your RGIII training shoe or something. But to have your own personal logo, I just thought, was like the cart before the horse.
“You know, are we working on branding ourselves, or are we working on becoming a great football player?” Schlereth went on. “You were benched at the end of last season. And so, to me, [the comment] was not a big deal. Well, apparently he was offended by that.”
At this point it gets petty. Redskins fans attack Schlereth who then proceeds to act like BIFF from Back to the Future.
Look I'm creating my new logo… Oh wait, never mind it's just my Super Bowl ring. @eazotheshow @RGIII pic.twitter.com/0Q7Z3jRVIR
— mark schlereth (@markschlereth) April 8, 2014
Then RG3 starts preaching.
No matter what, have to stay above the fray. Same ones bad mouthing you on TV and radio are smiling in your face asking for favors
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) April 7, 2014
No need to @ anyone. No need to give them that satisfaction. Gonna stay on the grind with my bros
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) April 8, 2014
Schlereth gets paid to give an opinion and people can agree or disagree with it. Part of being at ESPN is giving “hot takes”, this particular hot take just happened to be dumb. Kirk Cousins can do 1000 interviews about wanting to be traded, but RG3 puts a logo on Instagram and all of sudden he isn’t working to become a great football player.
In the immortal words of Allen Iverson…..How silly is that?
RG3 is just held to higher standard than most, some of that is his fault, but some of it is just ridiculously and this falls in the ridiculously category.
He was shut down for the season for a couple of reasons, not benched! The season was shot, Cousins needed reps, he wasn’t 100% and should have never started the season anyway, and Snyder had already made the decision to fire shenanigans! For the record, how does one acknowledge his black side!
sports and sports marketing is a multi billion dollar business…for a owner, player, coach etc to not try and capitalize on that is almost as be equivalent to not investing in a company matching 401k plan…this is not the early days of football with leather helmets where the players eat, drink and sleep football…by the way those guys had to work during the off season to make ends meet, whereas today football is almost a 12 month profession where the avg player plays what, less than 5 years?…add in the injuries and possible long term of effects of concussions, arthritis, etc and it only makes sense for players to think ME, ME, ME will chanting go team…and at the end of the day, RG3’s logo will only go as far as he carries the Redskins on the field…so if he fails to produce, we won’t be seeing the logo much anyway…
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