Who is drafting rg3

Snyder and Shanahan have changed the culture of the team the last two seasons despite a couple of high-profile mistakes. Mistakes are overblown and not soon forgotten. Nobody remembers the Packers ' down times, though. If Griffin is as advertised and the Redskins keep building through the draft and use free agency judiciously, the last two decades will be seen as a blip on the radar screen, and the Redskins will once again be synonymous with tradition, respect and winning.

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Your sports. Join Newsletter. Well, the effusiveness with which he was talked about lived up to the hype. Jack Welch, the head football coach at Copperas Cove High, took us on a tour of the school. We drove down to the house Robert grew up in and traced the route that his father, Robert Griffin, Jr.

To say it was quintessential Texas is an understatement. On to Waco where, as had become the norm, excitement reigned whenever folks asked us what brought us to town and we gave the answer.

That was saying a lot for someone who had won the Heisman Trophy three months earlier. Then came our time with Robert. With a hearty handshake and the flash of his million-dollar smile, you just knew he was going to take D. After finishing his workout with a yard bomb and a hand-grenade endzone celebration, Griffin playfully jabbed at a ball then-Redskins coach Mike Shanahan was holding.

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It's a move that tells Griffin that no thing is certain in the NFL; a wake-up call, so to speak.