Robert Griffin III’s rehab from knee surgery has been going pretty well, apparently.

It’s no secret that Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan has been under fire this week after Redskins star quarterback Robert Griffin III tore up his knee in Washington’s first round playoff loss last weekend. But don’t count NFL commissioner Roger Goodell among his critics.

Before last Sunday’s NFC Wild Card game at FedEx Field between the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Redskins, Seahawks fullback Michael Robinson shot video on his phone of the actual playing surface. As you’ll see, the field is awful – and that’s just in pregame warmups. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll called the field “horrible,” and the NFLPA is demanding improvements.

Robert Griffin III needed surgery to repair both his ACL and LCL. This sucks. Are the Redskins to blame? Plenty of their fans think so… and they are not happy with their favorite team.

Robert Griffin III has played hurt a fair amount this season – he’s run the ball a lot, taken a lot of hits because of it, and it’s led to him getting banged up on more than one occasion. But never had his playing hurt been more obvious than it was today in the Redskins’ 24-14 playoff loss to the Seahawks. The painful proof is after the jump.

RGII is incredible; this is not news. But Mike Shanahan is getting a little carried away. He claims that nobody has ever played at RGII’s level. Ever. Nobody. The quote, and why it’s so ridiculous, after the jump.

Even after ESPN First Take’s Rob Parker questioned Robert Griffin III’s blackness, he did not initially back down from his comments. On Twitter, at least, he was retweeting those that agreed with him, calling his critics “typical and uneducated” and pompously boasting that he wouldn’t be reprimanded in any way. Well he was, with an indefinite suspension, and now Parker has issued an apology.

When ESPN provocateur Rob Parker questioned yesterday whether Redskins rookie phenom Robert Griffin III is black enough, the reaction was about what one would expect it to be: swift condemnation of the idiocy Parker spewed. Perhaps more interestingly, though, Parker’s hot air also prompted an official company response.

My, how First Take co-troll Rob Parker has everyone talking about him lately! Remember a couple months ago, when he decided to get a rise out of people who like to obtain knowledge by breaking out the totally new, un-hackneyed “observation” that any sports fan who likes stats is clearly a pathetic no-friend nerd? We do. Now, though, his target is Robert Griffin III… and what he’s saying is even worse.

Oh, LeBron. You didn’t need to do this. This wasn’t like last time in Denver, when you’d won the game and the only way people could get their making-fun-of-LeBron fill was if you left some random guy hanging. But you did it anyway, LeBron, because you give and give.