​Look. Losing sucks. But we cannot allow losing to influence our perception of Griffin. Can he do more? Sure. But here is my point of view.

The lack of impact in passing game. This was by far the most used talking point this week. "Most of Griffin’s passes were less than 10 yards". This is a fair judgement until you realize that only four QBs threw within a 1 yard variance of a 10 YPA (yards per attempt) statistic. In fact, RG3 was 16th in YPA. In 2012, RG3 had a 8.1 YPA in 2012 and 7.0 in 2013. In fact, here are the career averages YPA for some of todays greatest QBs.

Griffin – 7.2 (just for week one. Griffins career is 7.5)

Peyton – 7.7

Rodgers – 8.2

Brady – 7.4

Brees – 7.5

Lack of the deep ball was another talking point I heard. When looking at all of the other quaterbacks, 20 QBs threw between 2-4 completions of 20+ yards. That is then to say, 2/3 of the leagues starting QBs performed almost identical to Griffin. If that pass to Roberts was ruled a catch, which it should had been, then Griffin would had tied the career greats average of 20+ yard completions per game.

Griffin – 2.8 (Griffin’s career average)

Peyton – 3.3

Rodgers – 3.3

Brady – 3.1

Brees – 3.4

What really happened week one was something rather encouraging. In fact, I would take the game that Griffin played every week. The reason being, that level of production every week would put Griffin on pace for a career year of 4,200+ passing yards. Presuming that throwing that many yards would yield at least one touch down per game, and not zero, would put Griffin, at the very least, 16 touch downs. That is a very lower estimate. It wouldn’t be fair to project no interceptions every game, but presuming Griffin displays a 78% completion raiting every week, that number should be lower than 1 per week.

It is further encouraging because the Houston defense is probably one of the 5 hardest defenses we will face this year. Meaning, I believe there will only be four games that will display a tougher defense than what the Redskins faced week one. That includes, Seattle, Arizona, San Fransico, and Tampa Bay.

Speaking of touchdowns and interceptions.

Interception per pass attempt (careers)

Griffin – 1.9

Peyton – 2.6

Rodgers – 1.8

Brady – 2.0

Brees – 2.6

Touchdown per pass attempt (careers)

Griffin – 4.1

Peyton – 5.8

Rodgers – 6.3

Brady – 5.4

Brees – 5.3

It is safe to say then, at least statistically, Griffin is on track to have a great career. The two areas where Griffin needs to improved on are release time and touchdown percentage. Otherwise, people should stop letting the losing influence their opinion. Griffin is performing quite well and with time will continue to improve.

As a life long Redskins fan, (since 1983), I am ready to experience the good old days. Cheers brothers , to future super bowls. HTTR