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umbrellas and be careful for those commutes. >>> now 9 sports with kristen berset, the best sports in town. >> the washington redskins have wrapped up three weeks of organized team activities which means no pads, no tackling. today they start mandatory minicamp. joining me in studio to break down what we've seen so far redskins beat reporter graham pahlsson, frank hanrahan. want to start with you. we have as the media have only been able to see rg3 a few times. what kind of assessment can you give us about rg3's growth so far? >> as a nontalent evaluator the speed certainly checked out. watching practices you can see he moves quicker than most quarterbacks and his arm strength is tremendous. he'll be running one way, throw across field the other. he's going to continue to progress as he learns this game. he's 60 to 70% comfortable a week ago with his offense. that's what this is about, mentally allowing him to start training camp, being able to sprint, not asked to take baby steps and think about what he's doing. >> we've been talking the last few weeks and pretty much all positive about rg3, but, frank, is there anything you can criticize or p