Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III has taken his fair share of criticisms from people off the field over the struggles he and the team have experienced in his sophomore year, but the latest barb against the signal caller came from an unlikely source--a wide receiver and target on his own team as Santana Moss recently said that RG3 needs to start taking some blame for the team's struggles.
According to ESPN, the veteran wide receiver appeared on 106.7 The Fan in Washington, D.C. and said that more players, such as Griffin, need to take responsibility for the team's woes.
"If we're going to win games, we need to win games with our guy saying, 'At the end of the day, I didn't make a play,' regardless of if it wasn't him," Moss said on the "LaVar and Dukes" show, according to ESPN. "And that's how I feel. Because that's what we're out there to do."
The last place Redskins were coming off of a 24-16 loss Sunday at the hands of the division rival Philadelphia Eagles, and Moss' comments came just two days after Griffin tried to explain the team's struggles by placing the blame on the entire team instead of just one person after he threw a game-ending interception to seal the team's loss.
"We had a certain concept with running and nobody got open so I was backing up, and in the situation where you get a sack there, it ends the game," Griffin said after the game Sunday, according to ESPN. "I was trying to throw the ball to the back of the end zone. It didn't get to where I wanted it to go."
The interception sealed the loss for Washington, and the team fell to 3-7 just one year after winning the NFC East with a 10-6 record.
"As a leader, you understand that if you're involved in the situation, whether you're the receiver, the quarterback, the guys making the tackle, whoever -- regardless of the outcome, good or bad, you have to at some point, stand up and say me or I," Moss said via ESPN.
Moss continued to drive his point home.
"I don't need to be going back and forth in the media about who didn't do this and who didn't do what," Moss said per ESPN. "At the end of the day, I was seen with the ball in my hand last, as a quarterback I'm saying, and if it didn't get done then I'm going to let you know it was me. Whether it was me or not. It was me. And I'm going to get better. And we're going to get better together."
Griffin is 222-for-372 (59.7%) this season with 14 touchdowns and seven interceptions and has rushed for 345 on 66 carries with no touchdowns after reaching the endzone seven times last year on the ground. Moss has one touchdown and has 23 receptions for 290 yards so far.
The Redskins will look to put their two-game losing streak behind them when they host the San Francisco 49ers in primetime on Monday Night Football in Week 12.
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