Robert Griffin III says he has ‘tough skin,’ can handle criticism
By Mike Dyce
Quarterback Robert Griffin III burst onto the NFL scene with the Washington Redskins during his rookie season. He lifted the team to the playoffs and won the NFC East championship. In that playoff game, Griffin suffered a knee injury and recovered in time for the season but he hasn’t looked like the Griffin of last year.
That has criticism being fired off at Griffin fairly regularly. Griffin says he can handle it.
“You take life as it comes. Life’s going to throw you curveballs sometimes. You just have got to figure out which ones to try and hit,” Griffin said, via Mike Jones of the Washington Post. “Right now, it’s not a burden. It’s a burden if you make it a burden. You’ve got to believe. It only takes one person to believe so you can have success. I always believe in this team. I always believe in these players and so on and so on. That’s what it is for me. It’s not a burden.
“I understand what comes with being the quarterback of the Washington Redskins. I understand what comes with being a quarterback in the NFL. And yeah, it might be a little harder here because of certain aspects of what goes on around this team. I understand that.”
Griffin elaborated on what “around this team” meant.
“Our fan base is great. They demand success. They got a taste of it last year and they’re going to want more of that and we’ve got to provide it and we will,” he said. “I think we will. So I think that those are some of the factors that go into it. It’s not a small town. It’s not a small-city team that doesn’t have a big media room like this. It’s part of it and I understand that.
“Even coming from a small town in high school and a medium-sized town in Waco in Texas, you come, you step up to another level, you’re in the big city, bright lights and you’ve got to perform, and that’s what we’re going to do.”