NFL Teams That Will Never Live Down Their Embarrassing Mistakes

Washington Football Team Trades The Farm For Robert Griffin III

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The Washington Redskins (football team for many), have not had much competitive success since they won their last Super Bowl in the 1980’s. Entering the 2012 draft, the team knew they needed to make a big splash and traded multiple years of their first-round draft picks to trade up and select Robert Griffin III out of Baylor. The move looked brilliant after one season, as Griffin led the team to a 10-6 record and a playoff appearance. The optimism ended there, as Griffin spent the next few years making bad decisions and getting hurt. The team is still searching for relevancy in 2018, having completely bungled the Kirk Cousins situation, the better quarterback they drafted in 2012 without giving up draft picks to get. Yikes!