On Monday, Ron Rivera was asked why other NFC East teams are ahead in the division at this point, and he responded: “Quarterback.”
Robert Griffin III thinks the Washington Commanders’ issues are more about Ron Rivera than Carson Wentz.
The former NFL QB took to Twitter and ripped what Rivera said about his QB.
“You NEVER do this to your Quarterback. The difference between Washington and the rest of the division is Coaching. Daniel Jones has a 1st time Head Coach and they look the best they have in YEARS. The Cowboys have gone undefeated with their BACK UP QB. Coaching matters.”
In his weekly Tuesday appearance on “The Sports Junkies”, Griffin ripped Rivera even further.
“It’s unbelievable that he did that,” Griffin said. “That’s just not what good coaches do. When they ask you (that question), the answer is coaching, right? You take responsibility for that as a coach, it’s your job to take responsibility for your players’ failures and not take responsibility for their success. That’s just the mark of good coaching.
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“The fact that he did that — didn’t just drive the bus over him, then he doubled down on it, backed the bus back over him, and then came out and said well I didn’t mean it that way. Well it sounded that way.”
Ron Rivera has since apologized for creating a stir with Monday’s comments regarding quarterback Carson Wentz. Rivera said on the Don Geronimo Show on Tuesday morning that he addressed the team and talked to Wentz.
“I didn’t have to. I was fortunate enough that our media relations director contacted him and let him know,” Rivera said, via Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post. “And I actually talked to Carson this morning. In fact I talked to the whole team. I had a mea culpa moment and that I should know better. I created a little bit of a distraction and that’s one thing that I try not to do and it’s one thing that I’m very aware of. Again, it’s one of those things that when you misstep, people can’t wait to dive onto it and jump onto it and hold onto it without an opportunity to explain yourself. So, hey, that’s on me. I should know better.”
The coach stated after his initial comments that he had no regrets about the trade for Wentz despite the team’s struggles that put them at 1-4.
“No, I got no regrets about that quarterback,” he said Monday. “I think our quarterback has done some good things. There’s been a couple games that he struggled, but you look at his numbers from yesterday and you would say, okay, look, his numbers he’s had throughout the year, there times he was very solid. And then we had the unfortunate Philadelphia game, and he struggled a little bit in the Dallas game. But the way he performed yesterday, and it just shows you what he’s capable of and we chose him because we believe in him. We chose him because we looked at what we felt were things that pointed towards him.”
Wentz went 25-of-38 passing for 359 yards with two TDs and one INT in the lost to Tennessee on Sunday. He has been sacked 20 times through five games and thrown six interceptions.
