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As Browns quarterback Robert Griffin III enters his fifth NFL season, he still needs to be reminded of some of the basics.

Specifically, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports, the Browns have three major lessons they’re drilling into Griffin in his first few months with his new team:

1. Plant your back foot, then throw.

2. Get down, then slide.

3. Throw the ball away, don’t take needless hits from the defense.

Usually, a player who has been in the NFL as long as Griffin would be expected to have the fundamentals down. But Griffin was so successful, so early in his career, while relying so much on his natural gifts, that he still has a lot to learn about playing the position.

Griffin’s downfall in Washington was his inability to avoid taking hits, and when Griffin couldn’t avoid the pass rush in the preseason last year, Jay Gruden ultimately decided that Griffin wasn’t up to the task of quarterbacking his team. Hue Jackson will have to be convinced that Griffin has learned enough to lead the Browns.