In his second game back from injury, Washington running back Brian Robinson managed just 24 yards from scrimmage before he was forced out again with an ankle injury in the Commanders' 34-26 loss to the hated Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
"I got my ankle rolled up on really bad... so I'm dealing with an ankle sprain right now to some ligaments that were rolled up, but it's nothing severe," Robinson said during his weekly appearance Tuesday with 106.7 The Fan's The Sports Junkies, which is presented exclusively by our partners at MainStreet Bank — Cheer Local. Bank Local. Put Our Team in Your Office. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender.
Robinson said it is not a high ankle sprain and there are no fractures, so there are some positives to the injury.
"It's been good with it progressing," he said. "I'm actually surprised with how well it's progressing since, so we're just [taking it] one day at a time."
The running back said – guaging the severity of the injury himself – it would be a "grade two-ish" and that "it shouldn't be too crazy once the swelling go out and we'll just hit the ground running from there."
Does that mean Robinson will miss Sunday's game against the Tennessee Titans? "I'm really not sure, it feels a lot better since it happen, I just stick to the process, take my process one day at a time and it it works, it works," he told The Junkies.
Vibe around the locker room
Coming off three straight losses – the last to the Cowboys in a game many expected the Commanders to win – Robinson said the culture of accountability is still strong in the locker room.
"We look at everybody in the eye and we know how much of a better team we are and how bad we played to put ourselves in certain situations to be in tight games like that and lose games like that," he said. "We know – inside the the building, inside the locker room – the potential of our team, we know where we go wrong and make mistakes and where we could always just be ontop of our game. And we don't always be on top of our game. We just gotta all be pros and put it all together and just lay it all out there and make it happen like we were in the beginning when we were out to prove something.
"We just gotta get back to the basic fundamentals of what we did to win and we gotta get on the same page and do it together all the time. And stop getting comfortable with where we at in the season and the record. We gotta go back to phase one, day one fundamentals and playing style."
When asked about the running game specifically, Robinson said they have to be stronger upfront, everyone in the game has to be more on their details, and they need to get more into a rhythm.
"It's so much that we leaving out there in the running game and I think it's coming down to the basic things," he said. "... I just feel like we haven't been keeping our running game relevant."