Robert Griffin III and Samantha Ponder Fired By ESPN, Per Report
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Yeah but did cupcake guy get fired
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Hopefully RGIII can come over to Fox
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RGIII is funny but also pretty cringe.
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Never had beef with Ol Bob Griffin
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RG3 believed in UW as a title contender before anyone else in MSM did.
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He’s okay in my book.
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anyone ballpark how much these people make?
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From The Athletic:
While his seven-figure per year salary will be honored, his role had diminished to a point where ESPN decided to not keep him on.
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dtd is pretty cringe.
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Listening to the likes of Buck/Aikman is like watching paint dry. RGIII could keep a 28-0 game interesting to some extent.
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Big Penix Energy will never die
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I will always hold how shitty a QB he was in Washington against RG3 (but more how he was an arrogant prick to his teammates. Yes he gets some pass for Dan Snyder being Dan Snyder but RG3 was still a dick) but he became a decent commentator. I wonder if he was also a dick to his ESPN coworkers.
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Chinteresting point I never considered. I assumed it was about money.
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People can grow and mature
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Not the poasters on this bored...
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There was a lot of smoke around RG3 being the owner’s pet and therefore had more clout than the staff. Also smoke from players and coaches in that same vein. The O Line suddenly blocking better when Cousins played wasn’t an accident. I’ve heard enough from the players/coaches of that era to give it more credence than just rumors and complaining.
Dude never caught on anywhere else in a real role. Yeah, injuries but Usually when players leave the Redskins their careers get better. Never happened with RG3.
I don’t discount DJ’s comment that it is entirely possible that he has matured.
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Dude actually watches the quarterbacks and analyzed them accordingly. He would openly mock some of Kiper's qb big boards and it was pretty funny. Also, he was right. He is a good color commentator. Sometimes tries a little hard for the catch phrases, sometimes they're funny too.
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Neither were great, but there were dozens of useless people who should have been fired before them. Start with Sarah Spain and Meah Kimes or whatever her name is.
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Well… NFL players, who on average have short careers, are going to intentionally not play well on the offensive line in order to sabotage a QB they reportedly don't like?
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RGIII was pretty fun to listen to. He’s a different breed but I like how he doesn’t seem to care what other people think. I’m sure that’s what got him canned to a certain degree.
I also like Sam Ponder. She made watching the pregame shit on Sunday mornings more enjoyable as an old, perverted male viewer.
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Around the Horn is getting canceled in about a year. That show was good in the 2000s with guys like Woody Paige. Now it's woke (not taking it to the Tug). Then ESPN wonders why their ratings suck….
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There’s always Only Fans, Samantha.
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My daily dose of ESPN died along time ago. In the moments when my bar time ESPN and RGIII lined up, I liked his takes. Nice to have a guy that shoots from the cuff and doesn't fake it out of fear of being shit canned. Unfortunately, it caught up with him.
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why fire (and keep paying) rg3 when you could have just fired mark jones instead?
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Putin! Xoxo:), LOL, rotfl, bff buddy!
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I used to watch PTI and ATH every fucking day. Haven’t watched it in years. The glory days of Woody, Cowlishaw, Bob Ryan, Blackistone, Plaschke, et al are long gone. The show went downhill when Max Kellerman left.
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Ponder was critical of men playing in womens sports. ESPN is owned by Disney. You do the math.
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herbie is critical of it too but they kept him. Not sure if it was related to this.
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Cringe AND?
