Twitter: Mike Brown: Redskins announce Griffin knee injury is a knee sprain MRI showed

[SWFLSkins]

Sprained both my knees skiing in Tahoe at 23 and had to ice and elevate them for two days, skied the next week. If the MRI is clean he will heal in a week or so.

[DogofWar1]

My hope is that the league will start giving RGIII calls on borderline hits in the near future. He's already a star in this league, and he's 100X more charismatic than Luck. He's the future face of this league, provided they don't let him get beat up.

The stars get those borderline dirty hits called most times, and eventually they stop getting hit like that, because if you can't get away with it anymore they stop trying to hit you to injure you as much.

[Rey]

that Ngata is one of the dirtiest players in the NFL.

No, RG3 just needs to not be another Michael Vick and unnecessarily put his body at risk. SLIDE if you don't want to get hit hard.

Play smarter, not harder.

[IrepDC]

Ouch that replay looked worse than I thought. Glad he's okay. He does just need to slide feet first!

If he had slid feet first, Ngata likely hits him very similar to the hit against Atlanta that caused the concussion. He just needs to get down sooner regardless of feet or head first, because the refs are going to let defenders hit him when he does these last second slides, and he ends up getting hurt even worse from falling awkwardly.

[Ghost of Nibbs McPimpin]

No, RG3 just needs to not be another Michael Vick and unnecessarily put his body at risk. SLIDE if you don't want to get hit hard.

Play smarter, not harder.

As I said before, sliding in traffic is just as dangerous.

[Rey]

My hope is that the league will start giving RGIII calls on borderline hits in the near future. He's already a star in this league, and he's 100X more charismatic than Luck. He's the future face of this league, provided they don't let him get beat up.

The stars get those borderline dirty hits called most times, and eventually they stop getting hit like that, because if you can't get away with it anymore they stop trying to hit you to injure you as much.

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've read. Who gives a **** how charismatic he is when the game in on-going? No player should get calls go his way just because he's a "nice guy".

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As I said before, sliding in traffic is just as dangerous.

It's less dangerous than running upright when a 350 LB lineman is about to hit you.

[bradboyd80]

That hit by Ngata wasn't dirty. It was the way RG3 dove combined with where he got hit that made it look ugly. The hit by Pollard on the other hand......should draw a fine. Blatant head hunting. He ducked his head and dove right at RG3's head with his helmet even after he slid feet first. But to stay on topic, I'm glad to see the MRI was negative. Hopefully he gets a good bit of rest this week and is able to go next weekend.

[Ghost of Nibbs McPimpin]

This is one of the most ridiculous things I've read. Who gives a **** how charismatic he is when the game in on-going? No player should get calls go his way just because he's a "nice guy".

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It's less dangerous than running upright when a 350 LB lineman is about to hit you.

He wasn't upright, Rey, he had already made contact with the ground. Did you watch the play? It was a freak thing cu of his leg flopping. Also teams are targeting him and they are not calling it and slides in traffic got him and Smith concussed.

[pilsburypgh]

That was flat out scary man..RG3 theme song should be "slide"...lol

[Robbnva]

I will say I am glad we have Cousins as our backup instead of Grossman. Even if RG3 doesn't play next week (don't think he should anyway), Kirk can do a good enough job to win that game.

[Probos]

Lotta budget Doctors on ES. I gotta hit you guys up next time I injure myself.

Yeah,...pretty comical.

[Robbnva]

I'm actually fine if RG3 never runs again. Scramble and play action? sure but I don't want him to get seriously injured and that's what's going to happen if he doesn't stop

[skins2victory]

Honestly...... Just thank the lord man!!! If that was a ligament tear, yeah lets not go there...... Awesome news!!!

HTTR

[JumboJimmbo]

Everyone here is freaking out too much on this injury and how his career is doomed because he plays like this. How happy would everyone be if he didn't run for the first and we lost the game? The hit he took against Atlant was inexcuseable and dumb, but this one here was trying to make a play and a freak incident of his leg whipping up caused an injury. How many of you can say you've seen something like that happen?

[Rey]

He wasn't upright, Rey, he had already made contact with the ground. Did you watch the play? It was a freak thing cu of his leg flopping. Also teams are targeting him and they are not calling it and slides in traffic got him and Smith concussed.

Ngata may have been a bit excessive on the play going over Griffin, but I doubt his intention was to aim at his knee. Try weighing 350 pounds and slowing yourself to a complete stop lol.