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Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III faced a number of questions from reporters on Wednesday about his sliding, or lack thereof, during Monday night's preseason game.

Later that night, he put out a message on social media.

"They doubted in High School. They doubted a turnaround at Baylor. They doubted a Heisman was possible," he wrote. "Keep doubting. It's nothing New."

Thursday, he stood by his tweet. He said it reflected how it felt, and defended his participation in social media, where he's more active than most quarterbacks.

"To each his own," Griffin said. "There’s 1.1 million people on Twitter that want to hear what quarterbacks have to say, and it’s not that we tweet all the time, but any time we tweet something, it gets blown up. But it is what it is."

He said what he does online doesn't detract from his football efforts during the day.

"We spend a lot of our day focused on football, so when we get a chance to unwind, whether its watching reality TV or being on Twitter for 5 minutes in a day, that’s not subtracting from what we do on the field and in the film room," he said. "A lot of these guys have to find ways, like myself, to unwind and just relax for maybe 10, 20 minutes out of the day. and that’s how we do it."

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