There was a time when Washington football fans believed Robert Griffin III would lead their team to a Super Bowl. These days – long removed before his glory days in D.C. – he’s instead only making predictions about the Super Bowl.
During his seven-year NFL career, Griffin never won a playoff game as a starting quarterback. These days an seemingly ascending analyst at ESPN, the former one-year wonder for the then-Redskins is drawing criticism from fans around the league for his Super Bowl LIX prediction.
“If Aaron Rodgers plays like a top-10 quarterback like the execs have him ranked and we’ve known him to be – an off year for Aaron Rodgers is a career year for most quarterbacks,” Griffin said on Monday’s Get Up!. “If he plays like a top-10 quarterback, I think the Jets win the Super Bowl.”
More than a couple things working against Griffin’s theory playing out. First and foremost, that Rodgers is 40 and coming off a season-ending torn Achilles. New York also plays in the same AFC as the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and the team that hosted last year’s AFC Championship Game.
Oh, and by the way, the Jets last played in a Super Bowl 55 years ago.
“RGIII needs to be drug tested,” one fan commented under Get Up!‘s Twitter post
Wrote another: “RG3 is the worst mainstream sports media member and it isn’t even close.”
The Jets currently have the 11th-best odds to win this year’s Super Bowl, far better than Washington at 27th. The Commanders haven’t won a playoff game since 2005 and last won the Super Bowl after the 1991 season.
After winning the Heisman Trophy at Baylor, Griffin burst into the NFL with a dazzling 2012 in which he led Washington to the playoffs, went to the Pro Bowl and was voted Offensive Rookie of the Year.
After that, however, his career was derailed by numerous injuries and he went only 7-20 with three teams before retiring after the 2020 season.
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