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ongoing story. ... Immediately after Griffin injured his knee in the team’s playoff loss to the Seahawks, he said that he would have been “highly upset” if the Redskins had taken him out of the game after he injured himself early in the contest. Three months of rehab for an ensuing ACL surgery later, Griffin is singing a different tune in an interview with ESPN the Magazine. Griffin said that while he doesn’t feel like it was a mistake to keep playing in that game, his experience has taught him that a more cautious approach is called for in the future. “I don’t feel like playing against the Seahawks was a mistake. But I see the mistake IN IT,” Griffin said.
Reported by Profootballtalk.com
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RG3 added: “With what happened and how everything was running — you take me out. If that happened again next year, I’d come out of the game and sit until I was 100percent healthy. ... ” As PFT's Josh Alper notes, that’s a departure from what we’ve heard from Griffin in the past. While we're still waiting to see if the second-year signal caller will be ready for Week 1 this fall, it's good to know he understands that missing a few plays, quarters or games isn’t ideal, but it is better than missing months or more by playing while in a compromised physical state.
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