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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

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