My colleagues Mike Jones and Master Tesfatsion recently spoke to a bunch of anonymous NFL talent evaluators, who were divided on many of these issues. Here is another (artificial) round-table, created out of the recent thoughts of several NFL analysts.

WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO TO SUCCEED?

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David Carr on the NFL Network: “Find himself as a player. He’s going to have to get healthy mentally, physically. After you leave a place like [Washington] — your expectations [were] so high, a lot’s asked of you. When you go to your next spot, don’t chase the money. Don’t chase the star or something that just jumps out to you. Find what fits you as a player. Ask questions. When you go to these meetings, you’re going to be interviewed, you’re going to go in there and sit with GMs and head coaches. Ask ‘How do I fit in this system, how do you see me fitting in this system.’ If you get a good answer — you feel like there’s some love there, like they believe you — then that’s the spot. Don’t chase the dollar signs. So many guys do that. It could be the end of his career if he picks the wrong spot. So like I said, don’t chase the money, don’t chase the star, find something that fits for you, and go out there and try to rebirth your career.”

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Louis Riddick on “SportsCenter”: “What does he really feel his like he needs to work on, and [can you] make that connection with him in order to have him win from the pocket? Which is really what I’m getting at. If RGIII cannot learn that, if he can’t develop a relationship with someone to really develop that part of his game a la Cam Newton, a la Russell Wilson, then his time in the NFL is gonna be very short-lived, or it may already have been. And I wouldn’t be shocked about that.”

Joe Theismann on SiriusXM NFL Radio: “The one thing that he has to continue to do is he has to continue to work on becoming a better drop-back passer. Making the reads. Get the ball out of your hands on time. That’s something that, unfortunately, the injuries stopped him from being able to do. Robert had a great rookie season. Rookie of the year, playoffs, everything’s going to go great. Then he gets hurt. So he misses time in the offseason working on his trade, rehabilitating. Then he dislocates his ankle in year three. Then he sits in year four. In the preseason he played [a few dozen] snaps total, I think, in both years. Combined. Because starters just don’t play in preseason. So Robert needs to play some football. He needs a new beginning. He needs an opportunity for someone who will utilize his athletic skills but yet be very insistent on him being a drop-back passer.”

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Ryan Clark on “Mike and Mike”: “It’s a humbling situation, a situation that he now knows he has a ton to learn to be a productive NFL quarterback, and he has to approach his next situation that way. … The last time we spoke, the last time we texted, he seemed like he did and he understood. … He also understood the situation he was in and the only way for him to come out of it, and I think you saw that through his behavior this year, that he is humbled, that he has got a grasp on where he is with the organization. So I do believe that when he goes to the next place, he tries to learn. Sometimes you just can’t. Sometimes you can’t stop being who you are, and that’s just a fact of life for all of us in any career that we choose. But he has to try, and I think he understands that, he knows that.”

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WHAT KIND OF CONTRACT SHOULD HE GET?

J.I. Halsell on ESPN 980: “A one-year show-me deal, or a chance for something longer. There is a chance that a team could give him a multi-year deal, and the reason why you’d do that from a club perspective is if your pro scouts and your coaching staff truly believe that you can build Robert back up and you can put Robert into a scheme that will allow him to be productive, then you want to get him under contract for multiple years. Because now if you do a one-year deal and he ends up being productive, now you’re in a tough spot in terms of having to franchise him potentially. But if you do a multi-year deal you’re kind of getting ahead of everybody else around the league in locking him up.”

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Joel Corry on 106.7 The Fan: “He’s not going to break the bank on this contract. His best-case scenario, and I don’t think it will happen, is someone handing him a starting job. It may realistically be compete for a starting job, and when you compete for a starting job in the past couple years, your ceiling is really the $5-6 million range. And he should want to do a one-year deal, two years max. Maybe you get some upside and incentives, depending upon what you do play-time wise, statistically and how the team performs.”

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Adam Schefter on “Mike and Mike”: “You’re working under the assumption that you’re certain that Daniel Snyder, whose actions cannot be underestimated, is going to want to part ways with him. Daniel Snyder loves the guy. Loves the guy. Has gone to bat for the guy. Now, it makes no sense that they could keep him, certainly not under the contract the way it stands right now.”

WILL HE BE GIVEN A STARTING ROLE?

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Corry: “I think in Robert’s case, he needs to really think long and hard about going someplace where he can improve his craft as a quarterback, because if he goes someplace and fails, he may not get any more real opportunities. Remember a couple years ago when Josh Freeman got cut from Tampa, he went to Minnesota, failed miserably, and he’s had a career downward spiral. And I would hate to see RGIII make a decision for short-term gain and it ends up effectively hindering his long-term future.”

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Halsell: “If he’s brought into an organization, he’s not being brought into a new organization and being anointed the immediate starter. At best, he goes to a new organization and he’s brought in as a guy who is there to compete to start. And when you look at that market of compete-to-start quarterbacks, you’ve got guys like Josh McCown in Cleveland, who was brought to Cleveland to kind of mentor Johnny Manziel and to compete with Johnny Manziel theoretically for the starting position. Brian Hoyer was brought to Houston to compete with Ryan Mallett at the time to be the starter. And when you look at those two contracts as data points, you’re looking at $5.2 [million] in the case of Hoyer, and $4.6 million per year on Josh McCown. So I think that’s the high end on a contract for Robert Griffin. Obviously any deal that he signs is going to be to some degree a prove-it type of contract.”

Chris Cooley on ESPN 980: “I think he’s got to go somewhere and deal with it mentally to be the backup in an offense and learn an offense for another year. And if he’s not able to do that, I think he’ll compete to start, and if he does start, I would put odds that he struggles and that everyone knows he can’t be the backup and it being over quicker than it should be. I think he’s got a chance to win if he goes somewhere else and continues to develop his skills and continues to learn. I don’t think he needs to go somewhere and compete to start right now. I don’t think it’s best for Robert.”

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Charley Casserly on Tiki and Tierney: “I don’t think you can sign him and say you’ve got a solution to your problem. I’d say you sign him and then you keep trying to find a solution, and then you go to camp and see how it works out.”

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Riddick: “I think with a player like this, it’s important to take into account his mental makeup. Although he played the good soldier this year as the backup there, there’s certain guys who are wired to be starters, and certain guys who have the wherewithal and really the patience to be a backup. That’s a whole different type of mentality. That means you have to be very self-sufficient, very much a guy who doesn’t mind working behind the scenes, a guy who doesn’t need attention, a guy who doesn’t need to be in the spotlight, but you’ll always be ready. I don’t know if he’s wired that way. He’s always been The Guy. So if you’re bringing him in to be a backup, I don’t know if that’s what’s best for him. I think he needs to go somewhere and people need to bring him in with the idea that he will at least work to be a starter. But then the question becomes is his game good enough, and will it be good enough, and I’m not convinced of that.”

Clark: “You bring him in for a backup. He’s had a year to where the gold and the glimmer of him is not as important to us anymore. We don’t want to talk about it all the time.”

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WHAT KIND OF OFFENSE DOES HE NEED?

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Carr: “He’s not a prototypical drop-back passer. He moves well if he’s healthy. He’s not dynamic like Russell or Cam. He aspires to be that guy. He’s kind of caught in a gray area. Because it’s one of those situations where he doesn’t throw the ball down the field consistently enough to be that guy that can beat you from the pocket. And I don’t know that he can move as well. … I don’t know if he’s that dynamic guy. It’s going to have to be something where he heals at a place and maybe gets into a system where they can put something in place like they did for Tyrod Taylor where he can kind of use his dynamic abilities and still throw the ball down the field. He’s going to have to improve a lot though.”

Casserly: “I think there’s a number of issues. Number one, can he operate in a drop-back system? So what system are you going to run? Now if you’re going to run a Cam Newton system that they do in Carolina, that to me is the closest system that I think you can look at for him to reasonably predict success, where they have a very creative running game, they got the read option in there. Now Cam Newton’s a different guy running the read option than Griffin, because Griffin isn’t nearly as big and he’s not as durable. He has as much throwing talent as Cam Newton. Cam Newton is probably more accurate, but Cam Newton has a lot of simple throws in that offense now. One read and get it out there. So I think it’s the system he goes in, and then you have to look at the durability.”

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Clark: “I’ve watched him. When he’s comfortable and he knows where he wants to go with the ball, he can spin it with the best of them. He can really throw the football. Obviously he’s athletic, he can run.”

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WHERE WILL HE WIND UP?

Schefter: “Who’s interested in RGIII? I don’t know that there’s a logical speculative landing place for RGIII the way there is for Johnny Manziel.”

Corry: “The team he should want to go to is Houston, because from what I saw in that playoff game Brian Hoyer should be a backup quarterback, and that’s a guy who signed a two-year deal for $10.5 million, with a little under $5 million fully guaranteed. Now there’s another intriguing one which would be a lot of irony: St. Louis’s big Achilles heel, they don’t have a quarterback. That’s the one thing probably keeping them out of the playoffs, and it would be ironic if Jeff Fisher made a push for RGIII, after acquiring multiple picks to [not] get that guy. … If you’re going to go be a backup, to me, you go someplace where there’s a quarterback guru or someone who’s had success in terms of improving quarterbacks. I would be interested in wanting to hook up with Bruce Arians if I’m RGIII. Carson Palmer’s old, and [Arians is] the quarterback whisperer, or Andy Reid in Kansas City. Chase Daniel is an unrestricted free agent. [Reid] had some success in 2010 turning Michael Vick into a more traditional quarterback. Don’t forget, in 2010 people were talking about Michael Vick as an MVP candidate.”

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Clark: “[He could] go to Dallas and be a backup and learn from a guy who was un-drafted, who had to come from the bottom and understand his skill-set in order to play. So I think it would be the safer bet for the Dallas Cowboys. He’s better than Kellen Moore. … He’s going to get [another chance]. Did you see the Dallas Cowboys when Romo went out? If he can’t outplay any of those guys, then that’s trouble.”