[Dylan]

Shanahan trying to improve his record at any cost:

"I talked to Robert and Robert said to me, 'Coach, there's a difference injured and being hurt. I guarantee I'm hurting right now, gimme a chance to win this football game because I guarantee I'm not injured.' So that was enough for me. I thought he did enough for us this year to have that opportunity to stay in the football game. It's always a tough decision, when to pull a guy, when not to. But I talked to him at halftime and I had to feel good about him to go back in.

"And I told him we're gonna run the football and you're gonna have to prove (it) to me."

Shanahan wasn't the only one who noticed either:

NFL:AroundTheLeague@NFL_ATL
Pete Carroll: "It was hard to watch RG3 tonight"

Mike Jones from Washington Post:

“If you noticed it earlier, when we rushing the passer, everyone was worried about him getting out and containing him,” [Pete] Carroll said. “After we saw what he was doing and how he was moving, I tried to encourage the guys to not be worried about [him] breaking containment and running like crazy. It was more like a normal quarterback back there, and [that] we keep our pressure and our rushes and not be so concerned about him, trying to keep him in the pocket.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...hed-abilities/