The dirty little secret in Ashburn is that Coach Jay Gruden actually thought Kirk Cousins was better suited to his offense, that Robert Griffin III wasn’t getting it and there was no way to delicately make a change at any point this season without causing major problems throughout the organization. So the new coach was resigned to doing everything he could to develop Griffin into a pocket passer, though he really feared Griffin might not be the guy to lead the team over the long term.

For obvious reasons, Gruden can’t say that and won’t publicly admit to those sentiments. And all those reservations notwithstanding, he is still very committed to doing whatever he can to develop Griffin’s pocket presence, accuracy and field leadership.

But a person with knowledge of Gruden’s thinking, speaking on the condition of anonymity, conveyed Gruden’s thoughts about Griffin in the past week.

via Mike Wise of The Washington Post