Robert Griffin III: Why Russell Wilson & Broncos Haven’t Clicked This Season | The Rich Eisen Show

the story of

russell

wilson

's birthday on the RSVP list and how it came to light that's what fascinates me is who is who is who is posting

this

like there's a locker room problem and the glass is half empty like as opposed to a half-full party, Robert, man, I don't know who's doing it, but it all started obviously with the way Russell played, the way the Broncos played, um, you know, I mentioned

this

in the countdown of the Monday night, that the situation in which they brought Russell in was completely different than the two situations that they probably saw as the key to doing what they did with Russell, obviously, Matthew Stafford going to the Rams and then Tom Brady going to the Bucks now that both teams had established head coaches. an established environment and they just needed a quarterback to help them get over the hump, uh, and that happened to them, they won the Super Bowl, but Russell came to a team with a first-time head coach, a first-time offensive coordinator It has a completely new and different staff. young group of skilled players on the offensive side of the football and all those ingredients just

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't been able to mix very well, I mean, Russ hasn't been able to cook, so when you look at what Mike Purcell did in the game, you kind of scream.

In the case of the quarterback, you never see that happen on a football field or much less on a football team, which leads to more speculation in the locker room. You have KJ Handler hitting the ground with his helmet early in the year when Russell is wide open. the end zone for the winner of the game and now you have this birthday story, so I'm sitting here and saying, okay, I don't know why that came up, guys have birthday parties all the time and no one even

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s up half of it. of the team. appears, so why does it matter?

At the end of the day, Russell and Sierra are happy, it's his birthday, he can celebrate and you just move on. It seems like there are a lot of people piling on Russell Wilson, huh, because I

haven

't been able to do it in the last 10 years. He was saying that whoever is taking him out with the knives is a shame he's not going anywhere, you know, and that's it, no, he's got this situation, he's got to be rehabilitated, Robert, that's it. That's the bottom line and anyone in that locker room who wants to win thinking that being benched or sent packing or embarrassed or ridiculed in the process will actually lead to those wins is sadly mistaken, so I don't do it.

I don't understand it and what are you seeing? Do you think he can be rehabilitated? This situation that has deteriorated in Denver. Yes, Rich, you are absolutely right. Russell isn't going anywhere. They owe you too much money. So, for me. A lot of people say, "Get rid of the coach." I don't necessarily know if that's the solution. It's probably the popular solution. Which is said to be popular, but they also pay that coach a lot of money and they owe him. money to not coach there if he gets fired after a year, so I think if you go back and look at what Russell has done well throughout his career, it's not about backing down on passes, he's never been that type of quarterback. outfield, he's more of an off-beat guy when he gets in the pocket and yes, his height has something to do with that, well a couple of things he's done extremely well throughout his career are rpos and performing action shots, so what that means to me is that the Broncos have to find a way to develop their running game for the rest of this year and then obviously in the draft or free agency next year, bringing to some guys who will imitate what Russell was able to do with Marshawn Lynch, Robert Turbin and those.

The group of backs City had in Seattle will allow some pressure to be taken off of them because they've never been a rhythm and timing guy, you know, three steps, five steps, seven steps, like Hackett did with Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay. for some years. It's not his game, so they have to go back, watch the tape of the last 10 years of what Russell did in Seattle. Select 10 to 15 concepts that you're like, okay, he sees this very, very well. I wasn't his coach, no. I really don't know him very well, but this coach knew him and was with him for a long period of time.

We're going to execute those Concepts because as a coach the main thing you have to do is put your players in position to be successful, don't put them in your system and tell them to execute your system now. I don't know if that's happening in Denver or not, but it definitely seems like Russell isn't comfortable with the offense because he's running, his feet are off, his timing is off. The look on his face doesn't scream confidence, uh, even though he says it's his confidence, his confidence never wavers, it seems like his confidence is wavering in the way he plays, so I think that's what coaches have to do because They have no choice.

They have to get Russell to work, what would you advise them, Robert? I mean, uh, I'm, I'm, I don't think he's telling any out-of-school stories here, but at one point in the Washington locker room there were questions about you. Having maybe lost control and at some point the way things are going with your career, Kirk Cousins ​​was sitting there, you know you had a knee injury and I'm wondering if any of this sounds familiar to you. Robert, yeah, to me, it doesn't sound familiar, uh, only because I made sure on my own to not let what the outside said about me dictate who he was.

My teammates in that locker room knew who he was. Did they know how much I cared about them? They knew I gave everything for them. Hell, I gave them an ACL and a left ankle for that for that locker room for those guys, so a lot of this stuff can be created from the outside. I vividly remember there was a story when I was there in Washington that the locker room was upset, uh, that I was becoming a starter again. I think this might have been in 2014. when actually the real story was that the locker room was upset because the media uh had come out and said something bad about one of our players and they didn't want them in the locker room anymore.

It just so happened that that whole ordeal happened when I was coming back as a starter and it was thrown in a way. That wasn't true, so the guys in the locker room were upset because they were talking to me about it, we're talking about it, but there's no control that you can have outside of the locker room, so for Russell, uh, at the Broncos it's one of those things of taking care of your guys Russell is your God, move on, you have to take care of them, um, you have to support him, whether it's in the social media, because we live in an era of social media, whether it's your press conferences and Russell has to do the same, he has to support his guys, he has to take responsibility for what he's done and how he's played and trying to keep getting better and then get better, so from Stone's point of view, it's not like that.

They remind me of anything, but yeah, the stories from the outside about losing the locker room as a player, as a quarterback, all those things that happen to every quarterback throughout the history of the league, it's just about how you handle it in the future and then. for Russell he can't, there's no way to convince the guy that he is, that he has to be his guy so that doesn't happen, whereas for me with Kirk Cousins ​​they took me out of the lineup and replaced me and then it was my job to 2015 to just make sure he was a good teammate for his cousins ​​on that team and that team in 2015 ended up winning the division, so I wasn't a distraction.

I made sure I was a Pros Pro. Russell has to be a Pros Pro in the locker room and just sit down and talk to his guys about what else they need from him. Catch the eyes of the

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