NBC’s Rodney Harrison is a retired professional football player from the National Football League. He is not one short of opinions and during his playing days he actually had some unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.
Harrison did sort of see through this whole Robert Griffin III (RG3) in Washington, long before most people did, and it's for one simple reason. He thinks RG3 an American football quarterback for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) is a jerk!
Here's what Harrison had to say about the Redskins quarterback situation with Griffin in particular on the Spiegel and Goff show:
“Well first and foremost, we see every week that there’s a lot of bad quarterback play, so I think we’re used to that,” Harrison said, via the Washington Post. “What we don’t see is guys being jerks at the quarterback position. And Robert Griffin III was a jerk. He was a flat-out jerk. And when you look at Kirk Cousins, he comes and he says all the right things. And he’s trying, he’s fighting, his team is out there supporting him, he’s doing everything he can to win.
“We understand that you’re not going to be Tom Brady, you’re not a future Hall of Famer,” Harrison continued. “But I think we do respect that a guy’s out there fighting. You look at [Josh] McCown for the Cleveland Browns; he didn’t play particularly well a couple weeks ago, he comes back and throws for [457] yards or whatever it was. But I think we respect guys that work hard and try to do the right thing and stay humble. Robert Griffin didn’t do that, and he lost the respect of his teammates, as well as the guys in the media.”
Harrison didn't seem to provide any reason why he thinks Griffin is "a jerk," but it's clear he doesn't like the young quarterback.
Griffin had an awesome first season, winning Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2012. However, after suffering from multiple injuries the former Heisman winner isn't the same athlete he once was.
He's set to become a free agent in 2017, but it's likely that Washington moves on before then.
https://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-10-17/robert-griffin-iii-jerk-kirk-cousins-washington-redskins
