IRVING, Texas -- Was it just two years ago Robert Griffin III shredded the Dallas Cowboys in the Washington Redskins' 38-31 win on Thanksgiving?

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones wasn't quite sure himself when he talked about Griffin on NFL Network Wednesday morning.

But let's take you back to Nov. 22, 2012, at AT&T Stadium.

It was Griffin's first game against the Cowboys and he completed 19 of 27 passes for 304 yards with four touchdowns and an interception. He also ran for 29 yards. He was playing at a height that rookies rarely see and Jones could not feel any lower because he thought Washington had a dynamic starting quarterback for the next decade.

“Really I was in awe,” Jones said after that game. “I was very disappointed, but I was in awe of RG III. The plays that he was making, they made some great catches, they made some great plays. It was unbelievable the plays they were making.”

And in the rematch at the end of the year with the NFC East on the line, the Cowboys could not beat a clearly hobbled Griffin, losing 28-18 for their second of three straight 8-8 finishes.

“I am impressed with the way that the Redskins are put together across the board,” Jones said after the loss at FedEx Field. “They're going to be formidable. As the Cowboys look to the future, we have to look where we are within our division. We'll look and see just exactly how to approach a team that has some of the players they've got and good coaching they've got. We have a big challenge ahead of us.”

Turns out, not so much.

Griffin finds himself on the bench now that Redskins coach Jay Gruden has turned the offense over to Colt McCoy, who beat the Cowboys 20-17 in overtime on Oct. 27. He probably finds himself on the outs with the team altogether, despite the team saying he remains in their long-term plans.

This is a quarterback who has been benched twice by coaches. The first time came last year when Mike Shanahan said he was protecting Griffin with Washington out of the race and Griffin not right physically. Now this comes after Gruden went into a hardly-ever-heard dissertation regarding Griffin's shortcomings two weeks ago.

There is no way the relationship can be salvaged.

But now many wonder if Griffin could somehow end up with the Cowboys after Jones' comments Wednesday.

“Well, I'm a fan of RG III,” Jones said on NFL Network. “Right on this field two years ago, or maybe it was three seasons ago, he put on a show and had a game that just floored me. And they won, and they won in large part because of his play at quarterback. I thought ‘My goodness, and we're going to have to be playing this guy for years and years.' And so he's got it. Once you see a player do it, especially if you see him do it two or three times, you know he can do it. And of course he's a driven young man. I'm a big admirer of RG III.”