I’ve heard and seen many rough critiques in my day, but Chris Cooley’s evaluation of RG3’s play against Tampa Bay was about as rough as I’ve ever seen. Cooley is a former Redskin, but now does film breakdown of the Redskins for a local ESPN affiliate. When he broke down the film of RG3 against Tampa, needless to say it wasn’t very pretty.
“What we are going to do is we are going to give incomplete to the entire offense,” Cooley said. “Because I don’t know how to grade them….I can’t grade the pass game. Our quarterback does not allow a proper grading of the pass game, because there was something I’ve never seen go on on a football field before.
“There was a game plan initially installed, which was not run or operated in any way shape or form the way it should have been,” Cooley went on. “There was a quarterback not reading the field when he should have been, there was a quarterback scrambling when he [shouldn’t have been]….You can’t grade anyone else around Robert because of the way Robert played.
“And I want this to be really clear as we move forward with this breakdown,” Cooley said. “I’m not making fun of Robert. I like Robert. I like him as a person. This is not a personal attack. I am not going to make fun of him. I think he handled the media afterward improperly; we’ve discussed that. And I think he played poorly. And because of that, I’m going to now walk you through the game.”
Ouch. To be fair to RG3, he hasn’t had the greatest of protection upfront lately and I think that is every bit as important as anything being discussed currently.When you have a mobile quarterback who has had several injuries that hinder his mobility, you need to make sure you invest heavily in your offensive line. I think the writing is on the wall for RG3 in Washington, it will be interesting to see how the rest of his career plays out given he was so good during his rookie year.