There’s no need to bombard you with every former player’s thoughts on Robert Griffin III’s benching. But some are more interesting than others, especially when they’re a quarterback who played for Mike Shanahan.

(Given how Donovan McNabb fared in Washington, I won’t be looking at a whole lot of what he had to say. The lack-of-hard-work angle from when he was here did not just come from the coaches. Maybe McNabb did not like some things and has valid points, but he didn’t help his own cause and then by flopping in Minnesota, too, he showed that the problem really was him).

Anyway, USA Today’s Jim Corbett caught up with former Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer. His feelings were more mixed than I anticipated. I don’t really care how about what Plummer thinks about Shanahan’s future in Washington. He can’t provide insight into anything other than his own experiences. And you must also add: Plummer was a better quarterback under Shanahan than he was in Arizona. The fact that Denver went 13-3 and reached the AFC Championship Game with him in 2005 says a lot.

Here’s some of what Plummer had to say in the article: