Shanahan Grilled by DC Press (Says the MRI Might Be Wrong Because of Old Injuries)

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Watching Shanahan get questioned about putting RG3 into the game long enough to watch his knee go side-ways. Getting peeved. Fun to watch him squirm. The fact that he didn't come out and say RG3 was fine and instead is sending him to Dr. Andrews for another set of MRIs ("sometimes old injuries can fool new MRIs") doesn't sound good...

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[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

PWC?

personal water craft I believe.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Dayze

personal water craft I believe.

Gotcha. Thanks.

[seclark]

nevermind

[boogblaster]

Originally Posted by jd1020

This was Shanahans plan from the very beginning.

Ruin his knee so he can't run as he did in college, forcing him to become a pocket passer.

yup .. and now we'll see if he was worth the pick and the money .. i doubt it .....

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by scho63

The fans here in the DC area are furious and 99% are really pissed he stayed in so long. He was hurting early on and should have come out earlier.

DC fans are furious because they lost - the end.

Had he been able to stay in and complete the comeback, they'd have been all over Shanarats nuts.

It's a results-oriented, hindsight analysis. Every one of them would've started RG in a goddamn home playoff game with the Skins being as hot as any team in football. And they can say all day that they'd have pulled him sooner, but they're likely FOS.

Kyle may have dicked up a little by not dialing down the motion stuff on offense, but the decision to start RGIII was what virtually anyone would've done.

[jd1020]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Kyle may have dicked up a little by not dialing down the motion stuff on offense, but the decision to start RGIII was what virtually anyone would've done.

I would have started him, no doubt. But as soon as he came limping back to the huddle after twisting something on the sidelines that would have been it.

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Judy Battista ‏@judybattista

RT @Insider: MRI of RGIII's knee suggests partial tears of ACL, LCL acc'd to people familiar w/ result.... http://wapo.st/US0Lch

[Dayze]

"See! we shouldn't take a QB that high!. we should draft 3 QBs in rounds 4-6"

/truefans.

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

DC fans are furious because they lost - the end.

Had he been able to stay in and complete the comeback, they'd have been all over Shanarats nuts.

It's a results-oriented, hindsight analysis. Every one of them would've started RG in a goddamn home playoff game with the Skins being as hot as any team in football. And they can say all day that they'd have pulled him sooner, but they're likely FOS.

Kyle may have dicked up a little by not dialing down the motion stuff on offense, but the decision to start RGIII was what virtually anyone would've done.

This.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by jd1020

I would have started him, no doubt. But as soon as he came limping back to the huddle after twisting something on the sidelines that would have been it.

It's damn hard to say.

The Seahawks turned momentum awfully quickly and the Redskins still had a lead. They needed to try to do something to get momentum back and RGIII, even a hobbled one, is still your best bet.

It's just impossible to say what you 'would have done' when you weren't the person asked to do it. We know what we'd like to have done, but we weren't standing on the sidelines with 90K playoff-starved fans and a lead in the 3rd quarter of a game that is tottering on the brink.

I can't blame Shanahan for leaving him in there because I think there's a chance I would have as well. It's a gamblers dilemma. It's like taking a bad beat in poker then going out there and betting aggressively the next time around - it's hard to break the gambler in yourself and football coaches are as human as the rest of us.

You know Shanahan was sitting there thinking that they just need 1 more bullet from RGIII to Moss or Hankerson to steal that momentum back and salt the game away. It just never happened and he got hurt.

I won't kill the guy for that.

[ghak99]

I wanted to drop kick the rat somewhere after the half. The kid was done and the play calling was ****ing ridiculous.

Any Washington fan who couldn't see the kids career setting on the ledge waiting to be shoved off should be purged from the fan base.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by ChiefsandO'sfan

Judy Battista ‏@judybattista

RT @Insider: MRI of RGIII's knee suggests partial tears of ACL, LCL acc'd to people familiar w/ result.... http://wapo.st/US0Lch

The other rumors are that most of this crap is just Fred Smoot talking out his ass and a bunch of talk radio guys in DC running with it.

Granted, it may not be, but don't set DC on fire just yet.

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Originally Posted by scho63

The fans here in the DC area are furious and 99% are really pissed he stayed in so long. He was hurting early on and should have come out earlier.

It's true. He was never the same after that run play in Q1 out of bounds. By the third quarter they were rolling him out and he was do that little hop that players normally do when they blow out a hammy. When the play came around where he blew out his knee (which I'll be surprised if he didn't, given that his knee went about 25-degrees from the SIDE of the knee) he was clearly a fraction of the guy who led the team on the opening two drives. Really sad to see.

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Originally Posted by BigRock

The bad thing for Shanny is Dr. Andrews unintentionally calling him a liar.

He was really defensive about that. Said he asked if he was okay to play and Dr. Andrews said yes and that was that. But c'mon. Dude could hardly stand upright, much less run around and throw with any zip.