Former QB Donovan McNabb has some advice for current Redskins QB Robert Griffin III. He wants him to slow down. Hmmmmm. McNabb said he reached out to Griffin III last season, but never heard back. I wonder if RG3 will respond this time?!
Check out what McNabb had to say & let us know if his advice is coming from a good place….
Via FoxSports:
Between a wedding, a new house, a quick trip to the Kentucky Derby and recovery from an ACL surgery, Robert Griffin III has kept himself in the headlines this offseason. For former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb, it’s been too much.
McNabb told The Washington Post that he thought Griffin was doing “too much” to draw attention to himself. And while McNabb can understand where Griffin is coming from – taking advertising deals, going out, enjoying fame and extensive coverage of his recovery — the former quarterback thinks Griffin needs to take a step back and realize what is important heading into his second NFL season.
“But if you’re coming off ACL surgery, you don’t need to be having press conferences at OTAs,” McNabb said. “Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.”
Although McNabb has plenty of experience under his belt, he was once young a hot-shot quarterback, too. Maybe his Campbell’s Chunky Soup commercials with Mama McNabb weren’t as glamorous as some of his counterparts, but he knows what the hype before a season can do to a player if things go wrong.
“Especially if Robert doesn’t play at first or isn’t right for the first eight weeks and it takes a while for him to become the player he was,” McNabb said. “So what if you start 2-6 or 3-5? Then everybody wonders what happened, starts thinking, ‘But wait, you told us he was great a few months ago. He told us he was great.’”
