Robert Griffin III comments on his dismissal from ESPN and his future plans

Robert Griffin III does not rule out the possibility of working for another broadcaster after his dismissal from ESPN.

Griffin made the rounds on Monday, appearing on both the Jim Rome Show and the Rich Eisen Show, discussing his split from the global market leader while also looking to the future.

The former NFL quarterback and current media star will continue his podcast “Outta Pocket with RGIII” and said the end at ESPN would not stop him from working for another “traditional media company.”

“If you don't own something, you're always going to be a slave to something else. I just want to make sure that we own what we're doing, that we're having fun doing it, and that I don't have any bad blood with them as far as traditional media goes,” Griffin told Rome, according to Awful Announcing. “But there might be teams at Fox, NBC, CBS, Amazon, Netflix or anywhere else that I'd love to work with. I'm not going to close myself off to anything.”

Griffin was fired along with Sam Ponder on August 15 in a surprise move by ESPN that was described as a budgetary decision, but he told Rome he could not discuss the reasons for his firing.

He will be retained by ESPN until the end of the two years remaining on his contract or until another broadcaster buys out the contract.

Griffin told Rich Eisen that he was “surprised” by the decision and that he had already been assigned a production team for his college football coverage.

He expressed that he really enjoyed the “experience” at ESPN.

“I'm going to miss the people there that I was able to work with and I wish them all the best in the future,” Griffin told Rome. “For me and the future, it's just what God has in store for me. I'm just going to continue to go by faith and not by sight and continue to cover the game the way I know how, with the excitement and the enthusiasm. That's just the real, authentic me. There's no acting here. I'm just always going to be that guy.”

Griffin had been with ESPN since 2021 but was pulled from the Monday Night Countdown in May after ESPN added Jason Kelce to its talent roster.