Written by Mary Kay Cabot at Cleveland.com
Most folks are ready to end the Robert Griffin III experiment after his dawg of a game in Sunday’s 23-10 loss to the Bengals, but Hue Jackson isn’t.
“I am not giving up on it,” he said. “I am going to work through it and see where we are. That is the whole part of him playing so we can evaluate where we are and have a good feel about it when the season is over.”
Jackson brought Griffin here in the off-season and believed he could resurrect his career. He was supposed to have a full season to try to coax a winning QB back out of him, and disagrees with those ready to throw in the towel after one game back from the fractured shoulder.
“I’d challenge a lot of those people getting under center for the first time in a long time and try to do what he was doing. It’s tough,” Jackson said. “I don’t think you write people off if things don’t go well right away. I just don’t believe in that.
“Let’s go through this week and see where he is and see if he improved or not before we just write him off.”
Jackson acknowledged that Griffin’s fractured shoulder in the opener splintered not only the season, but likely the Browns’ QB plans.
“It impacts everything,” he said. “When you go into training camp, you start down a road, and you name a quarterback and you play to his strengths. The offense is built to his strengths. After the first week, it changes. Now, somebody else is playing.
“You have to adjust and adapt. Then after that week, somebody else was playing. Then we had to adjust to them, too, three weeks after that. It just has been the nature of how it has been. I said a long time ago, I don’t think we have really truly played our offense yet.”
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