Robert Griffin too good for the NFL?

I've alluded to this before but hadn't really ranted on it until I got something more solid. I've always gotten the sense from Robert Griffin that he wants so many other things aside from the NFL that he could get distracted, and could make decisions that let's just say are understandable on a human basis, but damaging on an NFL franchise's bottom line.

Michael Weireb of Grantland.com recently wrote a fantastic piece that showed Robert Griffin, III as a complex, extraordinarily intelligent human being.

The problem? Sometimes those don't make good professional football players.

Take this quote, actually from another article.

That's the kind of quote that sends up warning flares to NFL scouts on your commitment level to NFL football.

But of course, that's not all. Here are some more quotes.

Now, what Weireb said there isn't a direct quote from Griffin, but it is based on a feel he got from Griffin after spending a lot of time with him at Baylor, and from talking to teammates.

Again, not a DIRECT quote, but damn close to it, and very similar to the first quote I put at the top from a different article.

Not a big deal, and you may even say not relevant...but I think it's slightly relevant based on some things he goes on to say...

I'm sorry but I sense a lot of resentment of the NFL with these quotes. The NFL is "just about the spectacle" and "that's all it is". There's racial bias in the NFL, in football in general. It's just about money, and talent leads to money.

At least he tossed in the first line that if the NFL comes calling, you can't say "no". If not for that I'd be about convinced this guy is about to forego the NFL period and go to law school.

I thought really the article writer Michael Weireb summed it up pretty nicely here with a comparison to Bill Bradley:

My question is...if you draft Robert Griffin, are you really convinced that this guy loves football, loves the NFL, and will stay committed to it? He has so many other aspirations, and so many other pursuits, what if an opportunity comes calling that appeals more to him? You could practically hear the distaste for the realities of the NFL coming off the printed page. You can tell he doesn't think of the NFL as a particularly noble calling. It's a springboard for him.

If I'm an NFL team and I draft Robert Griffin, I'm almost more afraid of him having success than him not having success. If he has success he could make the decision to walk away from this "spectacle" on his own terms, as a conqueror, to work on more noble endeavors. This is especially true if he's a top 5 pick and his rookie contract alone pays him about $20 million.

The more I read about Robert Griffin, the more I see him, the more I like him...as a human. But the more I read about him, the more I see him and hear his words, the more wary of him I am as an NFL franchise's asset. Because, that IS the bottom line of the game, a fact of which he is fully aware. This is about drafting the most valuable franchise asset.

And if I've got two guys graded similarly and one of the guys loves the NFL, has always dreamed of the NFL, wants to play in the NFL as long as the NFL will have him, and here I've got this other guy that loves the thought of competing in the Olympics, intends to go to law school perhaps even while playing NFL football, has some resentment toward the realities of the NFL, clearly considers himself above the NFL, and straight up labels the NFL a "Plan B" that he pursues simply because he feels like he "can't say no"...I know which one of those two I'm drafting.

Don't you?