The Sports Junkies discuss the news that former Washington Redskin Robert Griffin III was let go by ESPN and they discuss what the reasons might have been.
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00:00RG3 laid off by ESPN as well as Sam Ponder
00:06Two high-profile analysts on ESPN obviously
00:11RG3 we had on the show for a year
00:14doing call-ins
00:18Was pretty popular it seemed like on ESPN and
00:23When he first burst on the scene people were surprised like wow, he's pretty good calling games
00:28But he wasn't a main player and then all of a sudden
00:32He started doing more and more games and more high-profile games and people like he's pretty good on the call
00:37And then they expanded his role to the NFL. Yep, and
00:43People Monday Night Football just assumed the meteoric rise was gonna continue
00:48but
00:50ESPN pulled the plug
00:52It's weird. I don't I don't quite get it. I know listen. He's it. He's a nice guy
00:57And he was you know nice on the show and everything, but he's let's be honest. I think it's hard horny
01:03I think he's hard to work with I I don't know if he's hard to work with Jason those people over there
01:07Maybe he is
01:09But I know he's all about he's a he's an attention guy
01:11He always has to be the center the last thing that I saw is he did
01:15From the Olympics something with the croissant his wife. I know that was the dumbest
01:19Whatever I can't believe that got so much attention, but he gets millions of views on these
01:24Social media posts, so yeah, I mean he'll be fine. He could probably make a killing just doing social media
01:30This is I got a good friend who I went to college with who's a producer the ESPN. He's been up there for years
01:37And I asked him about it, and I said was it simply financial which didn't really
01:42Jive to me because he's got two years left on his contract and is guaranteed so he's gonna get paid. We know it's guaranteed
01:48That's what the story says
01:51Then yeah, so I don't makes no sense well, that's why that's why his answer is interesting
01:54He says it's financial and people didn't like him. I know you probably spend time with him in DC
01:59He's just weird didn't vibe with people and on SVP shows SVP calls the shots. It was clear in September
02:05He wasn't gonna survive that show
02:08He also he made a good point about Keyshawn when Keyshawn got let go last year
02:13He had just signed an 18 million dollar contract. He got every penny so they honor those contracts
02:18but for whatever reason I think it's more than financial they
02:23Think it's how you are you are viewed by you know the other talent by the producers by management
02:30Why if you're not liked you don't last they blew out a lot of people though remember than that the layoffs
02:36I don't know if there's a year or two ago. Yeah