Robert Griffin III
speaker
545 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 May
Robert Griffin III’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's not a victory lap.
That's the best victory lap. Yeah, go for the victory lap. You deserve a victory lap. And I understand that. And I get it. When I say it's not a victory lap and then everyone comes and says, hey, RG, you just took a victory lap. I understand that. You deserve one. I think where I'm coming from with it is I wasn't... Honest to God, I was not trying to shit on the Bears.
Right? So when I came out and I said, Caleb Williams should pull an Eli Manning and tell the Bears he's not coming unless this happens.
Now... The take that was out there was fully on, hey, coaching matters. Structure matters. You're looking at the Bears. If Caleb comes in and they don't do anything with Eberflus, he'll be the third quarterback in a row that had a hot seat coach, and then now he's working on his second coach and his third coordinator in his second year. So from that sense, yes, I was right.
But I wasn't rooting for the Bears to fail. I just wanted them to make a decision on Eberflus. Yeah. I did too. Because I know you were a big advocate for them to move on from him.
And I'd probably say 90% of the fan base also wanted to get rid of him. Yes. And so I'm sitting there, and I'm like, in this new age of quarterback, in this new age of NIL, transfer portal, player empowerment, LeBron James started in the NBA. It's trickling in all the other leagues.
If you're a quarterback like Caleb, like Shadur coming out, and you have the power to tell a team, I need you to make a decision on your coach. So I was just saying, extend him. If you're going to keep him, extend him so that the team knows that he's their guy.
I saw that. I saw that.
Correct.
So for me, it wasn't about him getting him fired. The Bears had already made a decision that they were keeping Iberflues. So now it's like I'm having Courtney Cronin was a former colleague at ESPN and she's, you know, telling me, well, you know, the Bears don't ever publicly announce when they give a guy an extension. Right. That's just a, you know, an organizational practice.
But if you're going to do that, look what it did to Ibra Fluss in that locker room. When you've got, was it Jalen Johnson? Yeah. You know, going off on him, you know, allegedly in the locker room after. No, that definitely happened.
But who's been speaking their mind the most of all the guys all year? It's been DJ Moore. Yeah. He's been so honest, like to a fault almost, in his post-game pressers. If you publicly extend Eberflush, Every player in that locker room now knows he's not going anywhere. He's our guy. They left it in the balance.
So for me with Caleb Williams, all I was suggesting he do is say, I need to know what you're doing with the coach so I don't come into a situation where the structure is bad. And now he's going to be sitting there, second head coach, third. offensive coordinator. And the structure is bad. And the structure is bad. And the organization is bad.
And we don't have to belabor the point, but the thing that bothered me the most, like I root for guys. I root for teams. I know like me saying that kind of turned a lot of the Chicago Bear fans against me because they want their team to be successful.
you want your team to be successful i understand that i didn't hold it when you wrote that i didn't i don't think i wrote i think i wrote back but i didn't like tear you down right back it was like i understand why you're frustrated the thing that bothered me was the way that ryan poles handled it okay when he when he go ahead no i want to hear what you have to say because i i feel like from the outside you you go ahead give you give me your take
Yes. The way that they handled it, going on Pat McAfee's show, and when asked about it, saying it kind of pissed him off, almost as if they weren't walking down the same street. They're walking down the yellow brick road to go see The Wizard of Oz that the last three organizational leaders had done. And for him to say it pissed him off because they're there to break the cycle.
I'm like, well, I'm giving you my educated... Not just throw something at the wall and see if it sticks. I've been through this. PFT knows this. I went through the structure portion of why it matters in coaching and why it matters organizationally. So I'm giving my advice based off of GMs I've talked to, my own shared experience in the NFL, and
And it's not that they need to listen to me, but don't spit in my face and act like what I'm saying is so disrespectful to you. And I request from Pat McAfee the same time that you guys are giving me on here to be able to go up there and talk about Not just why I was right, but how the Bears can fix the issue moving forward. And to me, that was just like, it pissed you off?
You want to break the cycle? I want you to break the cycle, man. I'm not rooting against Caleb Williams. I'm not rooting against your team. I want the Bears to be successful. Otherwise, I would have been doing victory laps all year. But I waited because I knew there was a chance that we could have this conversation. And it wouldn't be just constant dunking on you guys. No, it was perfect timing.
I'm not a villain.
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