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

[authentic]

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?

i know, its absurd isn't it?

[MyCoolYoungHistory]

source? or are you just talking out of your ass?

How polite. Pretty much every beat writer twitter feed. But you probably have seen it by now.

[Skinz4Life12]

How polite. Pretty much every beat writer twitter feed. But you probably have seen it by now.

I have not seen one source call it a "first degree" sprain. So please give me your source because I will be thrilled with the news

[dcdiscokid]

I'm assuming those numbers pertain to mortals.

Yes my wife did it a few months back and that was her recovery time, doubtful its the same for an NFL caliber athlete.

[Skinz4Life12]

mycoolyounghistory, please post source

[MyCoolYoungHistory]

I have not seen one source call it a "first degree" sprain. So please give me your source because I will be thrilled with the news

My bad, can't find the source I saw yesterday but Shanahan just announced it in his press conference. Here.

[Skinz4Life12]

My bad, can't find the source I saw yesterday but Shanahan just announced it in his press conference. Here.

LOL, sounds to me like you got lucky. No one from the public knew this was a grade one sprain until about 30 minutes ago

[MartinC]

So its a grade one sprain and 'day to day'. I will take what Shanny says with a pinch of salt at this stage as he will want the Browns to prepare not knowing which QB will play. I expect to see RGIII as held out of practice until late in teh week, then limited and listed as questionable and a game time decision on the injury report. We will probably not know until warm ups who is going to be the QB as we keep Cleveland guessing.

[MyCoolYoungHistory]

LOL, sounds to me like you got lucky. No one from the public knew this was a grade one sprain until about 30 minutes ago

I know right? I probably read it somewhere on Reddit and took their word for it. Though it could have been inferred since Grade 2 is technically major ligament damage. Regardless, I'll remember to back up my stuff better in the future. Just glad this worked out.

[SonnyandSam]

So its a grade one sprain and 'day to day'. I will take what Shanny says with a pinch of salt at this stage as he will want the Browns to prepare not knowing which QB will play. I expect to see RGIII as held out of practice until late in teh week, then limited and listed as questionable and a game time decision on the injury report. We will probably not know until warm ups who is going to be the QB as we keep Cleveland guessing.

Grade 1 sprain is a medical diagnosis and Shanny can't play games with that. The league could fine or penalize the Skins for misleading information. So we do know it is a mild sprain. Doesn't mean he will play against the Browns. But it does make it encouraging. Griffin will likely wear a brace and probably won't be running much on Sunday if he does play. The triple option is likely off the board for Kyle. More Alfred and more bubble screens are likely....

[Idaho fan]

Sounded like the news was as good as we could have hoped for. They have the best doctors around (Andrews was on the sidelines for crying out loud!!) and I gotta believe Shanny when he says RG won't play this Sunday if he isn't able to move around like he needs to. I think Shanny will try to keep this under wraps as long as possible. We will just hear that RG is progressing but "questionable" right till the end.

If we had already clinched a playoff spot or had no chance of making it I think it would be safe to say RG wouldn't play. With playoffs on the line, RG will play if he can.. if he isn't close enough to 100% to satisfy Shanny than they will take their chances with Cousins. Stating the obvious I know - but it helps me with my own healing process in this.

[Wrong Direction]

LOL, sounds to me like you got lucky. No one from the public knew this was a grade one sprain until about 30 minutes ago

I read it on twitter (LL I think) several hours ago.

[Edit: From 7:38 AM

LL ‏@HTTR24_7
Word is Robert has a Grade 1 sprain. He obviously will receive treatment and will be monitored during the week. Will play if he can. ]

[Skinz4Life12]

I read it on twitter (LL I think) several hours ago.

[Edit: From 7:38 AM

LL ‏@HTTR24_7
Word is Robert has a Grade 1 sprain. He obviously will receive treatment and will be monitored during the week. Will play if he can. ]

Yea but this dude came out and said it last night

[MartinC]

Grade 1 sprain is a medical diagnosis and Shanny can't play games with that. The league could fine or penalize the Skins for misleading information. So we do know it is a mild sprain. Doesn't mean he will play against the Browns. But it does make it encouraging. Griffin will likely wear a brace and probably won't be running much on Sunday if he does play. The triple option is likely off the board for Kyle. More Alfred and more bubble screens are likely....

Whether RGIII plays or not its going to be really interesting to see how Kyle adjusts his game plan with much less if any of the read option in the running game. It was also interesting how the Ravens adjusted in the second half to take away the play action pass on the deep cross. Obviously we want RGIII fully fit and using his legs as a weapon but if he is a little less mobile and needs to play in a more traditional offense Sunday it may actually be a good thing in opening up the passing game more and allowing RGIII to beat teams with his arm - which is he is very very capable of.

I still think we us the pistol a lot if RGIII plays Sunday but with more stretch running plays, limited roll outs of that stretch and a much more pocket based passing game. We probably need to be more agressive early with the passing game as well as the defense can be more agressive against our run game when they dont have to worry as much about RGIII as a threat in the run game.

[Zazzaro703]

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.

The problem is Ngata probably figures Robert is gonna slide feet first and that hit was aimed right where his head/neck would have been. I'm almost glad he went head first because we are probably talking about a way more serious injury had it not played out the way it did.