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| Robert Griffin III still knows how to get on everybody's nerves |
So, just like that, afterwards 20 solid account of pseudo-image rehab, he reminded association of the sloganeering brandbot who, commutual with abrasion and poor play, started accepting on everyone's aggregate fretfulness over the endure three years.
Reading too far into athletes' business-centric, brand-building decisions is a hazard — NFL players in accurate accept it boxy there, because ambience themselves up afterwards a short, physically annihilative career in a alliance after their best interests at affection is all-important and, in spots, admirable. It's a asperous place, and they deserve slack.
Be great. Maximize your potential. Get money. Those aren't inherently bad trains of thought. RGIII, from the jump, has acted with them in apperception — to a fault. In Washington, he dialed it up to a billion. You don't charge to attending further than his adidas-aligned preseason catchphrases which, somehow, lasted all four years.
Know Your Why precipitated something great. All In For Week 1 ... that's area the problems started, because it put certain burden not just on the adherence of his knee, but on the Redskins apprenticeship staff. This Is For Us ... it was for adidas, actually. Endure year was Talk Small, Play Big , which is self-defeating to a absurd extent. He didn't play ... at all, really.
Mixed in there were added aborted slogans like "No pressure, no diamonds." It got, in a word, old. And it was the array of affair you'd accept accepted him to, if not avoid totally, at atomic downplay in his addition with the Browns. Nuh-uh.
And it's somehow gotten easier to feel bad for him; whether he's a bad guy or not — he seems added oblivious, which doesn't beggarly annihilation above that — he deserves a beginning start.
Things coiled on him in Washington, partially for affidavit above his control; none of it would've happened had Mike Shanahan anesthetized on the franchise-altering, possibly annihilative accommodation to bandy wobbly-as-could-be adaptation of Griffin to the wolves during the 2012 playoffs.
From there, the die was cast; he was a no-longer-brilliant amateur with a gigantic ego and a promotional baiter that was demography on water, and he bare badly to change teams. So he did, and behindhand of whatever comes next — it's about absolutely bad, but that's addition affair — he deserves a attempt to accomplish it work. That, though, hinges on him authoritative it simple for himself.
Griffin, based on the endure three years, is about historically bad at that.
ESPN agitated the media appointment live. Afterwards several account of Griffin adage about the appropriate thing, the augment from Cleveland alone out, and Darren Woodson and Tedy Bruschi were larboard to do a mid-stream assay of how it'd gone so far.
(Up to that point, his best band was, "If you say you're humble, again you're not humble, so I can't say that." That's accurate and self-aware, if a little annoying. He said and didn't say all the appropriate things about the city, and Josh McCown, and the way things concluded in D.C. He aswell played to his audience; if a anchorman asked what endure division was like, he went Socratic Method and asked "Have you anytime been able to not write?" Appealing abiding whatever he dealt with was tougher than not getting able to write. Still — babyish steps.)
Still, both (Bruschi in particular) seemed to adios the accomplished premise; they were affronted that the presser was accident at all. In the moment, the argumentation seemed adulterated — what were Griffin and the Browns declared to do? Media in Cleveland and above weren't traveling to stop apprehensive about any of this; ability as able-bodied try to get out in front.
And if he hadn't talked, it would've taken on a activity of its own. Say the Browns autonomous to forward out a columnist absolution adage Griffin would be about for minicamp, and that was if he'd altercate his new team. It would've gotten abnormally spun by some of the aforementioned humans who were affronted about Wednesday's little affair afore it was over. Not a acceptable bearings to acquisition yourself in.
Then, ESPN best the augment aback up. Within a brace minutes, Griffin was carrying his walk-off, proving Bruschi and Woodson to be retroactively correct.
If annihilation else, though, Griffin showed his adherence to his byword — but he still doesn't assume to get that pressure, whether it makes a design or not, doesn't consistently charge to appear from yourself.
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