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Robert Griffin III is filling a spot that should belong to Colin Kaepernick

It doesn’t take a genius to see why RG3 is getting another shot with a third team in four years while Kaepernick’s NFL career appears deadNo matter what would eventually happen, Robert Griffin III and Colin Kaepernick were destined to be linked forever as the faces of a quarterback revolution in the NFL. For four wonderful months in the fall of 2012 they, along with Seattle’s Russell Wilson, offered a tantalizing glimpse of the future: signal-callers who ran as well as they threw. They inspired words rarely used in NFL offenses, spawning talk of “zone reads” and “the pistol”.While Cam Newton had already established himself as a pass and run threat, the sudden arrival of Griffin, Kaepernick and Wilson that...

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RG III and the Cleveland Browns are a tragedy made for each other

The quarterback remains a long-shot to be anything like the quarterback who dazzled the league in his rookie season before his knee tore apartNothing else had been working for the Cleveland Browns, so when Robert Griffin III returned from his latest significant injury, their coach Hue Jackson felt he needed “to know something more” about the quarterback who was once going to lead his team this season. At 0-12 he had nothing to lose ... except another game.Predictably, the Browns lost on Sunday afternoon, and Griffin did not play well in what was only his second start in almost two years. In fact, the numbers will say he was something close to awful, completing just 12-of-28 passes for 104 yards...

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