Robert Griffin III of ESPN and Katie Strang and Mark Lazerus of The Athletic

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Episode 166 of the Sports Media Podcast features three guests. First up is ESPN college football and NFL analyst Robert Griffin III. He is followed by Katie Strang and Mark Lazerus of The Athletic. In this podcast, Griffin discusses the how he landed at ESPN; his audition process at Fox and ESPN; why the ESPN job made sense; whether he sees broadcasting as a long-term proposition versus playing again; his preparation for calling games with Mark Jones and Quint Kessenich; why, in his opinion, some former players succeed and why some do not succeed in sports broadcasting; his role in production meetings; his interest in providing opinion versus doing a game broadcast; discussing Langston Hughes on the Oklahoma-Kansas broadcast; his interest in doing NFL content, learning about broadcast boards and much more. Lazerus and Strang discuss the damming results of the Jenner & Block investigation; TSN's Rick Westhead’s powerful interview with Kyle Beach and the reporting on the sexual abuse allegations Beach made against former Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich; how the Blackhawks fan base has responded to stories; the challenges of reporting this type of story; how ESPN and Turner will cover this as new rightsholders and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:03.2	Hey everybody. This is Richard Deich and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. Three guests this week. Three excellent guests. First segment, Robert Griffin, the third of ESPN. He is a ESPN college football and NFL analyst there. And he has been excellent so far. I mean mean really, really good right off the jump. And
1:30.0	we talk about how Robert got the ESPN job, his audition process with Fox and ESPN. Both
1:37.4	those networks wanted him. And he was good enough to take us sort of inside the audition process
1:43.1	and how that went.
1:45.3	His preparation.
1:53.2	How he found himself with Mark Jones and Quint Kessinish, Robert gets into production meetings,
2:00.2	and what it's like to be a newcomer there and a newcomer indeed who has to run those production meetings because that's what the analyst does.
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