The Facts: Jay Gruden has said that Griffin will be Washington’s starting QB this season. But Ryan Clark, who played all 16 games in Washington last season but retired this year to take a TV job, said on ESPN that he could see from inside the building that Gruden wasn’t high on Griffin. “[Gruden] comes out early in the offseason and says, ‘You know what? Robert Griffin III is our quarterback,'" Clark said. "I think that was to kind of try to show there’s no issues in house, but there clearly is. He’s not his guy. They want to go in a different direction.”

Diehards Line:Clark noted that Gruden would openly acknowledge Griffin’s mistakes, and Clark says Gruden only proclaimed Griffin the starter this year because he wanted to eliminate the distraction of a quarterback controversy, not because he’s really sold on Griffin. In Clark’s opinion, Gruden was too stubborn to make changes to his offense to make the most of Griffin’s skill set. “When you give up what you gave to get RG3 at the No. 2 pick you make things work for him, you don’t make him change his game to fit what you want to do. And I think that’s where Jay Gruden went wrong last year,” Clark said. ... As PFT suggests, "if Clark is right, then Griffin may no longer be Washington’s starting quarterback when the season starts. No matter how much Gruden says otherwise."