Crime in Sports - #435 - Criminal, Or Crazy Person? - Everson Griffen

Episode Date: November 19, 2024

This week, we check out a Pro Bowl NFL player, who had so many physical tools, that he was nicknamed "The Freak", but things tended to fall apart in the brain area. He was always a bit wild, but they truly spiral out of control, by the time he's shirtless, and hiding in the bushes, after trying to break into a teammate's house because "God told him to"! Mental illness? Drugs? Too many blows to the head? All of the above???Be life of a Nantucket blow out party that old people hate, try to break into a teammate's house because "God told you to", and drive like you're legally blind with Everson Griffen!!Check us out, every Tuesday!We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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That's how we roll here in crime sports that said let's get to it everybody Yeah, this guy just a real interesting guy here Everson Griffin, you know, this is Everson Griffin is he do you play for the Jets Vikings for a long time really? That's what I mean. This guy played recently and had success. He played? Yeah, he played for the Vikings from 2010 to 2019,

then played for the Cowboys, then back to the Vikings again. He was playing in 2021, so super recently. And I don't know how the fuck I miss this guy. I really don't. He's a defensive end. Yeah. Oh, that's how I missed him shit Usually defensive ends. It's not an offensive guard. Yeah, but I can tell you probably 20 people on the defensive line Still yeah, I would like history of the NFL. There's no no, there's a lot There's tons of it was there was so many edge rushers, Bruce Smith and you know, fucking Reggie White and all those guys. There's tons of them. You

can name a thousand of them. They're fucking Richard Dent. I just named me a ton of them. So yeah, there's a lot. That one too. Maybe 17 more man, but that's a lot. I mean, but recently if you know, yeah, you'd figure Jared Allen guys like that. We know that is he's playing right next to this Fuckin guy. How do we not know who he is? So he's born December 22nd, 1987 Point him and Jared Allen are saying on the same line. I mean they're right next to each other. So wow, you know I don't know born December 22nd 1987 he is born in and grows up in Arizona. Oh, is that right? He is from Avondale the poor guy. Oh Shit interesting here. Yeah, I saw you go to out there. We'll find out he's a big Agri Freya

But you just want to know oh wow yeah, you know six foot three two seventy five big fucking guy Yeah, it's a big dude right there So yes, we'll talk all about him. His mother's name is Sabrina Scott. I guess his father wasn't around, but it doesn't matter. We do know his father's name because his brother's name is Charlie Jr. So I don't know if they're both from the same guy or not, though, we don't know.

Hopefully, yeah. No idea. Then we know his dad. Then we know his dad. He grew up there. Everybody said when he was a kid, he's a real rambununctious kind of a loud Yeah, but happy but happy. All right. Yeah, I don't know what Avondale was. I mean, Avondale is not a nice place. No

Bunches people I knew it was Almost lawless. I Guess cuz I'm trying to think I remember when you would go to the lighthouse to go perform comedy James. Yeah Rambunctious crowd. Yeah. No, I've I've served papers out there. So never mind comedy I've knocked on people's doors and said you gotta get the fuck out soon. That's So they shut off your power two weeks ago, yeah I'm saying like shit like that. So believe me. I've driven in this and this is a trailer park. There aren't even roads in here So I get it. I get it, but I didn't know like I don't know

I think of other places as worse though for some reason Yeah, but I mean Avondale's the like rough pocket of what I guess you'd call good years a little nicer north of it But yeah, man Avondale's tough. It's tough. He's raised with his brother by his mom, Sabrina. She worked full-time, but always, everybody said, and he said too, always made sure that they had the nicest shoes, they had Jordans and shit like that, that they weren't poor poor or anything like that and really took like good like baby care of these guys too. Apparently our guy here, Everson, never washed a load of laundry or ironed a shirt or cooked a meal or did a goddamn thing for himself as a child because his

mother did everything for them. Yeah absolutely. He didn't even in high school he only had one job in high school that we'll talk about here. Where did he work? He worked, well it was only for a week. He worked at the dog track at the concession stand. Oh, at the one in Avondale or the one on I would assume. Ter Paradise.

I was gonna say probably. If there's one in Avondale, I would assume that one because he, why else are there? I think there is one out there. Yeah, probably. It seems like there's gonna be a dog track. There used to be one downtown too. Oh, I remember that. You remember that one?

Oh, I remember that. Yeah. There was this old pervert that used to invite me to it all the time. He was. He was an old pervert guy. He was like this old. I was on a dog track with me? Yeah.

I lived in the same condo complex with him. And he had this little tiny dog and this wiener dog. And he'd take it. And he'd always be like, hey, you want to come to the dog track with me? But he was like a total pervert. I don't want to go anywhere with you. He would always have like, hey, you want to come to the dog track with me? But he was like a total pervert He would like always have like young men over. Oh Like not boys of age like adult men But it was like three-year-old guy and I was like 21 at the time and I'm like, I'm not hanging out with you

I see what you're doing. It ain't happening So Everson got fired though, from the dog track. Really? I don't know how shitty you have to be at the concessions at the dog track, because that's not the finest of cuisine. Yeah, pissing in the lemonade. That's what you would have to be.

Yeah. You didn't like, you know, make that filet medium instead of medium rare for the last time and they got tired of it. It's a fucking dog track. Yeah, you're too trying shit. Did you put the hot dogs up your ass first before you put them on the rollers? instead of medium rare for the last time and they got tired of it. It's a fucking dog track. Did you put the hot dogs up your ass first before you put them on the rollers? Like, I don't know what that would take. So he was real into sports though. He, I guess for, he was huge and it was always a problem. Like they didn't want him playing football because he was too big

for the other kids. Yeah, he loved baseball actually. But he broke his arm twice, the second time during high school, not playing sports, he fell off of a roof of a moving car while fucking around with his friends. He was trying to style it. Yeah, he was styled in it. And didn't work out.

That big sumbitch is on top of a car. Yes. Wow. At least that was a van, there's more room on top of a car. Yes. Wow. At least that was a van. There's more room. There's more room to move. More room to fucking get your footing up there. On top of a Corolla.

It's not the best place for a Duke 6-3. You can drop down flat on the van. You're on the roof of a Honda Civic. It's limited up there. Your feet are on the hood. Not a lot going on. So he couldn't throw as well as he could before because he broke his fucking arm. So yeah, kind of screwed up baseball. Oh, okay. So he shifted his attention to football and played his first year of organized football in high school.

So he had never played before. One of his coaches said when Ev came in as a freshman, he was bigger than our seniors. He's a fuck, he's enormous, and he's not like one of these late bloomer guys, like Dennis Rodman or somebody like that, who shot up when they were 20. He was huge. He's the biggest shit out of the gate. Yeah, he got pubes and gained 100 pounds

and shot up in a fucking foot immediately. One of those guys. So he would physically be able to dominate a lot, and people were comparing him to Terrell Suggs. Oh yeah. As he came up after Suggs. So they were like, Oh, he's like a Terrell Suggs, which he's following in Suggs footsteps again, because Suggs had a crime and sports episode first. Sure did. So once again, you're following right in your boy's footsteps there. So he went to Agua Fria High School, which by the way,

is the same high school that Randall McDaniel went to, the Hall of Fame Vikings offensive lineman. Yeah, he went there as well. Randall McDaniel's from Phoenix too. No fucking clue of that whatsoever. He played as a defensive lineman, obviously Griffin, and on the offensive side of the ball, he didn't play offensive line. He played running back.

I dare you to tackle. Oh my god. Imagine trying to tackle. Probably took six kids to take this guy down. Insanity. So that's fun. One of his teammates said as a freshman, he was bodying seniors on big league teams. He said it was like this dude is going to be freaking talented. I knew he had that ambition, that ambition, that automatic talent to just be a monster. Yeah. If you're big like that and you have a burst of speed that you're dangerous. I mean, that's just every sport's going to want you. He also excelled in track and field and everything else. Now he and his mother still, his mother was an athlete too. So this is what she play genetics

Well his mother and he still hold the male and female shot put records at Agua Fria His mom was a shot putter his mom's the still the female record holder for the school She's gotta be which is fuck. It's I mean, there's big people. I think we're dealing with here But I guess he was pretty immature in high school football I don't know if part of that is he didn't play organized football before that so didn't know kind of what was required of your Yeah, and I mean you can you can certainly coach somebody to do athletic things I mean to line up and and where to run and why to run that whatever whatever. But at his size, he's like Derrick Henry, you just fucking go and shed people.

It's not that hard for him. But if your brain hasn't caught up to your body yet, because if a kid's 14, 15, you look at him like that and you think of him as an adult, but he's still 14. He's still a 14-year-old idiot, you know what I mean? It's like every 14-year-old, so that's the problem. And they said that his friend said he has no sensor, no filter at all is what his friend said too. He had a big loud personality and no filter at all. Lucky for him. He's

so gigantic. He can say whatever he wants. No one's going to say boo. I'm not going to challenge him. Okay, sure. Um, so he's also a very popular because he's a big, you know, kind of confident guy. And a 6'3 to 175 pound running back that's probably going to help him win quite a bit. And he's got mostly A's in classes too. Oh, he's a smart guy too. Yeah, he figured out which girls to have write his papers and shit for him, which is very smart.

That's very, very smart of him to do. Yeah. Yes. to do. Yes, so as a junior he rushed for 794 yards on 142 carries and had eight touchdowns, also had 12 receptions on 168 yards and on defense he would, they would double and triple team him but he still had five sacks, 47 tackles and three fumble recoveries. I mean the defense I'm more impressed with because his offense that's not that great. I mean 700 yards is pretty good. That's 700, that's seven yards a carry I guess.

Yeah, now I don't know if he's the running back all the time or if he's a short yardage guy. You know if you're on the five you put him in. It's not a lot. Not a lot, not a ton. No, that was his junior year so who knows. They say entering a senior year he knew that he was going to play in a big program in college. He was going to be able to do that, but they still thought he was a little

bit too immature, all these colleges. And they would look at him and talk to him and be like, he kind of still seems like a kid. Yeah, did he laugh when he said fart? Yeah, that's interesting. One of the friends said here, that's when I saw the big difference. He started making those around him play at a higher level. We had a kid transfer from California who was a little bit of trouble. He wouldn't have made it through our program

if Ed hadn't taken him, Ev hadn't taken him aside and babysat him throughout that year. That's when I realized Ev just isn't just valuable as a player, but also as a leader and a mentor. Not bad. His senior year he had 77 tackles, 16 sacks and a fumble recovery as a defensive end and on 159 carries ran for 1251 yards. 7.9 a carry. Now he's figured it out. That's almost a

first down every time he touches. There's no reason to do anything else mathematically but give him the ball. Just run. And 20 touchdowns, by the way, as well. So, fucking killed it. 2006, his senior season, he was the Super Prep Player of the Year, the Scout.com Player of the Year, a Parade All-American, an EA Sports All-American First Team. I don't know the video game gave that shit out, but they do super.

They give out awards for the guys that have the cheat code. Well, he's got, yeah, but you can get this guy special. Uh, the, what is this? The super prep all American, a prep star, all Americans, scout.com, all American lemming, all American super prep elite 50 prep star All-American, Lemming All-American, Super Prep Elite 50, PrepStar 100, Rivals.com 100, Super Prep All-Far West, Prep All-Star West, Scout.com All-West, Long Beach Press Telegram Best in the West First Team, Orange County Register Fab 15 First Team, Arizona Republic All-Arizona, West Valley View first team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, and the Gatorade Arizona Player of the Year.

He's the best player in Arizona. That is silly. And probably top five in the country in high school. How big would your head be at 17 years old if you got all of those awards within three months of each other. Yeah, and between January and May you are just being filleted by every publication in the country. Every adult that seems to know about sports is saying how wonderful you are.

Jesus, my head would be. Wow, just fucking meaty, veiny cock slapping down on the table. He's also a good track and field athlete. He was one of the state's top performers in the throwing events. At the 2007 4A1 state meet, he won the shot put and discus events, recorded top throws of 17.67 meters, which is 58 feet in the shot put and 180 feet 8 inches in the discus. He's just like an Olympic athlete ready to be born.

He's just a tremendous large incredible strong athlete. So he also after his junior year went to the 2005 Arizona summer camp where he ran a 4.4640. Fuck yeah. He's 260 pounds at the time. That is ridiculous. Not even fair. Silly big. He is wild. Yeah. There are five foot 10, you know, 205 pound running backs that run four, four, six forties in the NFL. Emmett Smith didn't run that fast. Emmett Smith, the all-time rushing leader,

didn't have a 44640. His was like 455 or some shit, it was high. He wasn't that fast. With the way they've adjusted things, who that record's gonna fall one of these days soon? No. And that's upsetting. You don't think so?

Never, that's untouchable. Nope. You think so? Running backs are done when they're 28 now. Yeah, but you got guys guys who's going to sign, who's going to sign someone repeatedly to be their starter for big, giant money till they're 38 ever again. I don't know. Never going to happen again. That's, that's a good point.

They are talking about how, how little running backs are paid. They get paid shit because once they're 27, they have, I've seen general managers and on podcasts talk about how one, it's a math chart, it's like an actuary chart. At 27, running backs production drops off mathematically, so no matter who it is, they're not gonna invest big money in a guy past that age. Frank Gore had 16,000 on the button, that's crazy.

Oh wow, interesting, but he's still Well short number and there's not gonna be a lot of French doors He fell To incredible rushing season. Yeah, that's what I mean It's not gonna happen again. It might be right man There's nobody in the top 20 that are still in the league the The two guys who are at the top, Emmett and Walter Payton, there's never going to be other guys like that that play like they play. Walter Payton played in the 70s, never missed a game as a running back, which is insane. For like 15 years he didn't miss a game, 12 years or some crazy shit.

And then Emmett Smith was a different kind of thing too. That's not going to happen anymore. Even like your Derrick Henrys, once he's 30, no one's gonna want him anymore. He's gonna be out of the league. He's like 28 now. That's what I mean. And he's only got, in the top 25, James,

he's the only one still active. That's what I'm saying. And he's got 10-6. That's what I mean. He's not getting another 10. He's gotta put up 2,000 yard seasons for four seasons at 28. You might be right. Nobody, they may, nobody may ever touch us.

It's like starting pitchers are never going to touch the strikeout or wins records because guys don't pitch that much anymore and they only pitched 80 pitches a game, 90 pitches a game. So that's, that's Nolan Ryan's record for strikeouts will never be even, even come near it again. How old is Derek Henry? You'll never know now. I think he's 28. I think so somewhere like that. 27, 28. So I mean, even now they're starting to look at him as like, if he pulls a hamstring, they're going to be like, well, who's up next?

Well, he's having his best season ever right now because of where he's at. And right now because of where he's at. And he'd have to do this so many times. Yes, even like a LaDani and Tomlinson couldn't hang on that long. Oh my, James, he is 30 years old. 30, he's done. I mean, he's not gonna double up his fucking rushing

for what he's done so far in his career. And they gave him eight million this year, and people were talking about how that's overpaying for him. Eight million is overpaid. Yeah, but every shit quarterback makes 28 million. Yeah, yeah. Wow. And I really thought that that would change things, giving them the opportunities, the way the rules are changed now.

Like, you can't fucking blow up the quarterback, so the quarterback's got all the time in the world to scan the field, and if he can't find anybody, dump it off to your running back. And all of a sudden that guy's got so many more yards, but that's not a thing. It's well, that's the other thing is the game isn't a it's not a it's not looking for. You're not going to look at 90s Dallas. Nobody plays like that anymore. You know what I mean?

Nobody plays like that anymore. There's so few running backs that are really fucking good. Yeah. Half of these rushes come out of the fucking spread for Christ's sake. It'll be a quarterback and the running back in the backfield with five receivers and it's a goddamn delay draw or some bullshit like that. And I hate that place so much.

It's so fucking annoying. I don't like it either. When they pull it on third and 26, I wanna throw things at the TV. And they're attacked, two yard loss every time. Let's just run two yard loss everybody. You're already resigned to punning you son of a bitch. Just punt on third.

Fucking stop. Stop it already. So anyway, he's recruited by everybody, obviously. Oh, by the way, he also earned first team all region honors and basketball as well. Is that right? Why not? He earned the nickname the Freak because of his 40 hour dash time and his athletic, you know, not really a nickname. This motherfucker's a freak. They just said so he was selected to play in the 2007 US Army All-American Bowl along with USC recruits Mark Tyler, Christopher O'Dowd, Joe McKnight,

and Chris Gallippo. He ran the 40 yard dash in 446. He was the top recruit out of Arizona, narrowed his college options to USC, UCLA, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Michigan. Wow. These are very large football powerhouses. I mean, he liked Pete Carroll's program at USC.

They're not gonna be there much longer, but okay. I mean, who doesn't like somebody that wins by cheating? Yeah, well at that time, everybody cheated. They just won and cheated. You know, like everybody else was fucking square. Everybody's on the up and up. Exactly. He also liked their academics, because USC is a good academic school.

And he's a smart kid, yeah. And so he also said that it was close enough to home so that his mom could come to his games too. That's big, yeah. That's a nice thing too. It's driving distance of home, which is nice. And the coach, Pete Carroll, loved him, of course. He said he's always been a potentially great player and early on you could see that.

And so he said he found it in college and then carried it over to the next level and he's extraordinary. As he's grown up he's been able to capture his opportunity and make the most of it. He's doing all that and he's a fantastic young man. Sure. So he heads to USC 2007.

They are 11 and 2 that year, which is third in the AP poll, but not a national title that year here. Oh God, their quarterback was John David Booty. Really? Yeah, this is after, I think Matt Leinert was drafted in 2007. Booty was next, huh? Booty, yeah. Jesus.

Chauncey Washington at running back, Stanley Havel. Yeah, a bunch of guys like that. Anyway, he's a true freshman in plays. He plays backup defensive end, mainly pass rushing situations, because physically, I mean, it doesn't matter. So he appeared in all 13 games and started two. He had 21 tackles, five and a half for losses,

and not too shabby, and two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, two pass deflections. He became the first USC true freshman to start an opener on the defensive line in 21 seasons. Wow, that is a long fucking time. So not bad here. He had six tackles and three and a half sacks against Oregon State that year. Crushed them. Just against them, huh?

Yeah. So that week he was the Rivals.com National Freshman of the Week honors. Sure. He won that week. And on November 22nd he had six tackles and a sack and a fumble recovery to beat Arizona State. He's got to think he is the greatest thing to ever happen. Everything he touches turns to gold. Just diamond studded gold before his eyes.

It's got to be so easy. He must shit and then look at his log and go, yeah, look at that. He probably stands up, looks at it and goes, oh, that should have been gold too. How come that's not gold? I don't want to flush this. It's a piece of me and I'm perfection. I am perfection and it sucks man. I should serve that to someone.

Man, so for 2007 he was named Sporting News Fresh American first team, national football writers association of America, freshman, uh, all American first team rivals.com, freshman, all American first team, scout.com, freshman, all American first team and college news football or college football news.com, freshman, all American second team. He must've been pissed. Fuck you. How dare you. Plus he was a sporting news pack 10 defensive freshman of the year and was an all pack 10 honorable mention pick. Fucking killing it is what he's doing.

Absolutely killing it as a true freshman, which is wild. Most of the guys don't even play that year. But they don't play that year because they need to be physically matured to the full game. His 22 year olds are much different than 18 year olds. They hit a little harder. But this guy, physicality isn't the problem at all. Yeah. So as long as he was mature, he could do it. 2008 12 and one for USC and a third in the AP poll though. Don't quite win it that year. Dracula, the ancient vampire who terrorizes Victorian London, blood and garlic, bats and crucifixes.

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He's terrible so much money. He got his all the dicks man. He was such a bad quarterback They're just lousy made a ton of money and I don't care I really bad for him at all through like my grandmother. He was fucking awful So um He liked it. He's in LA by the way. So I mean he's in LA. He's a star now. He's amazing. He's a USC star. I mean these are certain things come with that lifestyle and you know people kissing your ass and nightlife and all that kind of thing. So I'm a lot of places. No shit. So I guess his teammate Jordan Campbell stayed with him all the time trying to keep him on

track basically. Campbell said nothing can deter you from being an 18 year old athlete in LA. A guy like Everson who worked for everything he had to get the national stage until you go through it yourself. You make mistakes and you grow up. You become a better person. It takes time. In other words, he's like knee deep and pussy and drugs and whatever the fuck you want. So it's kind of sometimes it's a distraction. Yeah. I mean, Jesus, I would assume man. So I guess he got into a little altercation with a veteran defensive end named Kyle Moore,

and they got in a fight during practice, and then they made up and they were friends after that. Sure, sure. Let's see. During spring practices, Pete Carroll staged a prank by having the LAPD enter a team meeting and arrest Griffin for physically abusing a freshman who was the freshman offensive guard named Matt Meyer that he was fucking, been knocking, beating him around in practice. So it was more of a prank on Meyer than anything, I would assume there,

because they told Griffin was let in on it, he knew it was happening. So he wouldn't take a swing at the cop or anything, I'm sure. But the joke was on Meyer of, you know, oh man, he's getting abused out here. Abused you so much. Abused so bad we got to arrest the guy. Got to arrest him I guess that's fucking hilarious he said yep you've been physically abusing freshmen he said got to do that so yeah the

officers interrupted a team meeting and played the incriminating video they even played like the practice would look at this watch him putting him, look you can't do that. Officers we want to... Abuse! Assault and battery. Man they said that rumor has it that further evidence included a footprint on Myers forehead that matched Griffin's cleats. That's fucking fun so anyway they've been planning it for a while. Well done, Pete. Not bad. There you go.

So that is ridiculous. But they're very excited about Griffin here. The off defensive coordinator, Nick Holt, said he's one of those rare kids you find every once in a while who is really big and can really run. His transition to major college football wasn't too hard. Okay. Yeah, when you're that huge. Yeah. I mean, if I was a really big guy, I'll bet I could have figured it out. That's what I mean.

If the fucking throw another a hundred pounds on me, I bet I could have worked with this shit. Give me six inches and a hundred pounds and I'll bet you at 20 years ago, I could figure out how to be a little bit athletic. A little bit. Um, some. Some, they said also because he was a freshman, quote, some of the kids felt threatened by him for playing time. So it was really competitive and in the heat of the battle fights break out sometimes. It was never anything out of the ordinary, but it was because kids don't want their positions

taken by younger job, younger guys. He comes in as a freshman and they're like, holy shit, this guy's up everybody's ass. Yeah, that's the problem here. I guess they want to make him a hybrid end linebacker, all the fucking ends that they do now, the rush ends that they have. That's the thing. The football player, the college athlete in the half shirt.

Yes, standing at the end of the line that the quarterback's terrified of. Right. Which is the, you know, I guess kind of Terrell Suggs kind of in the NFL was kind of one of those. L.T. made it as a, Von Miller followed from there. Yeah, Von Miller learned from L.T. how to do it. L.T. was the guy who first started popping up everywhere and standing on the line and being

A linebacker that wasn't playing the run basically the linebacker that's cross be does it today, too Yeah, yeah, it's there's still a few of them. You got to be an athlete for that shit Yeah, so um, but that's a fucking frightening dude that just exposes his belly You know, yeah, shit about the welfare of his innards. He's just willing to expose it all to you. I dare you to take a shot at it. Go ahead. Here's my abs. Enjoy.

I got a fucking half-dolphin shirt on here. Don't sweat it. It's coming. I'm so jealous of that guy. I got an 85 Merino practice shirt on. You fucking bring it on, bitch. I don't give a fuck. Let's go.

You want to be Mark Duper? Be Mark Duper, bitch. I'll throw it right to. Let's go. You wanna be Mark Duper, be Mark Duper, bitch. I'll throw it right to you, that's fine. The half shirt is crazy. It's fucking wild, man. So he said that he loves sacks. He said, quote, I don't know how to explain it because it's the greatest feeling in the world.

When you're coming off the edge, and edge rusher, that's what they always call the guys in the draft, and the quarterback doesn't see you, it's like a free shot to heaven I was gonna say is he mean heaven for him or does he mean I get to murder a man while he stands there I get to a football that's fucking awesome he's they talk about are you gonna you know NFL guys like you end up in the NFL with a lot of money, guys who are big sackers. This is a top draft pick, you know,

big money position. And he said it's kind of hard not to think about the next level, but if you think too much ahead, then you get sidetracked. You think about what you've got in front of you first and then work your way to the NFL. There it is. So there you go. He's crushing it though. As a sophomore. He has four and a half sacks. He's got tackles. He's starting games. He's a big star. He's hanging out in LA. He's doing everything. Grace right here. Yeah. Yeah, this is gonna be Grace. Even though he has a long NFL career. He can't hold this together because July 9th, 2009,

two different USC players, Jordan Campbell, remember his buddy that sticks by him all the time, and Everson Griffin are both arrested in Massachusetts. What are they doing there? In Nantucket of all places. What? What are you knocking over a Curio shop? What the fuck are you guys doing?

Did Dave Portnoy invite you to his house? Don't do that. Did you crack your lobster claws wrong? What the fuck? What up there constitutes a crime? Suspicion of breach of the peace. The sports information director said, we're aware of it and we're looking into it. The Nantucket police said that they were unable to provide details of the incident. That's what they said. So they end up not being charged apparently later on. They were cited for violating Nantucket Island's noise bylaw here. They were identified as hosts of a party that emitted a noise more than a hundred feet from the property during restricted hours. So they had a loud party all night. It's fucking Nantucket. It's a bunch of rich old people. Rich hedge fund managers and fucking people like that.

What decibel distracts people and angers people unless you're in a place where that doesn't happen? They had to get an Airbnb and they're destroying that motherfucker. They want to hear the water. Yeah. They want to hear the tinkle of the water on the rocks out there. That's what they want to hear. Unless you're in a place where that is welcome.

You know what I mean? Because I'm sure there's places where you get loud. But for the most part, Nantucket is not that. That's the last place I would say. Let's fucking have like a rager in Nantucket. That's not the place I would do it. Pack it up guys. We're going to Martha's Vineyard and we're gonna tie one on.

It's on. After that, we're gonna hit Kenna Bunkport. We're gonna go to the Bush family compound and blow those motherfuckers' minds, bitch. This is old people and hedge fund managers from Manhattan. Ladies take your tops off, we're having a big beach party in fucking West Palm. Oh baby. Oh god damn it.

So they don't get in trouble, they must write a letter of apology to the town. To the CEO of whatever. They have to do that, but that's it. No other action will come from it though. Carol declined to specify what discipline, if any, they'll face for this. You're gonna, they didn't get arrested. They didn't commit crimes. It's a noise complaint. They had a loud party.

They're kids. You go, yeah, okay. Turn the fucking radio down next time, stupid. That's it. That's who gives a shit. So yeah, not a big deal here. 2009 USC, nine and four they are. Okay.

Not going well now. It's falling apart. This is right before, I think Pete Carroll goes in 2010. Did he? I think this might be his last year here. You might be right. Positive. Maybe, I think.

He may have been gone before it though, before the decline. I don't know. Well, nine and four is a decline. That's still Pete? That's still Pete, yeah. Pete's here for 2009, he's there the whole time. So I think that made him go, oh, those NFL offers still hot?

Team's still offering me five billion a season? Yeah, at nine and four, the NCAA's gonna start looking at the past years, I gotta get outta here. I gotta get the fuck outta here. Yeah, they were 22nd in the final poll that year, So not quite the same. Matt Barkley now, the quarterback. So Sanchez is gone and now we got that. Barkley, they have so many bad quarterbacks there. How did they do it? Well, they're college quarterbacks. Same thing with Florida. Florida is the same way. Danny

Werfel, Tim Tebow, all these guys that in the system, they're good quarterbacks. But the NFL, you have to be great at everything as a quarterback. And you have to have an arm that's truly remarkable. You have to be able to zip that fucking out route at 25 yards, like not hang it up for a second because that quarterbacker runs a 4-3-40 is gonna fucking take that thing.

And you have to be a leader that's on a communicative Same page as that receiver because your ball has to come out perfect zippy and on target before that receiver Yeah, you gotta know the route he's running. Yeah, not only that you're a leader of men now No, not children college guys. There's guys with three fucking kids and two ex-wives and shit There's guys with three fucking kids and two ex-wives and shit. That's what's on your team. They don't give a fuck about the sorority party this weekend that you're going to get all these girls to come to. They got a sore knee and an alimony payment to make, so you fucking get your shit together

and take us down the goddamn field. That's who you're dealing with though, people with real issues. And a child support check that I got to cut to someone in three states ago from three teams ago I played on. And I got to pay my mom's mortgage and I got to get to someone in three states ago from three teams ago I played on. And I gotta pay my mom's mortgage, and I gotta get this and that, and fucking everything else. Mom's getting up in age, she's got heart medication,

god damn it, throw that ball. Different time, yeah. Some 34-year-old offensive lineman ain't hearing that shit. Let's go, bitch. I don't give a fuck about what they're playing in the club. Fuck no, it doesn't matter. So that year he's got eight sacks in college and just still doing great.

Second team all pack 10 and you know really good. After the win over Boston College in the 2009 Emerald Bowl. That's not one of the that shows you how far they dropped. I have no Ireland. I have no idea. No clue. Griffin announced he will forego his senior year of eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL draft. You know what?

His announcement should be told with music behind it. I think I will let him tell it in their own words, quote, in college college I could have maybe one defensive player of the year and all of that but I was just a young boy partying it was all about okay I know I have to do enough to get drafted and I know I'm better than a lot of people but I wasn't really locked in like that in college in the NFL you can't just show up and play you got to study you got to work out you got to practice hard you didn't know no I don't think he knew that ahead of time. I think he knew going into it now. Like, okay, now I can't do this anymore, basically. He's just starting to figure it out. That's good. Most people never figure that out. Yeah. Or they five years into the NFL, once they've been like,

you know, shit can from one team, then they figured it out. But he said this shit before he was drafted. Yeah, he said this shit. Like, I know I fucked, or he said it after he got drafted. He's like, I know I fucked around a bit in college, but in the NFL, I'm there every goddamn day. In the scouting combine, 6'3 3 3 8 inches, 273 pounds, an electronic timed for 6 6 40, which is still great for a 273 pound defensive end. That's amazing. And bench presses 225 pounds 32 times.

How much? 32 times. No, no, no, no, no, no. How much weight? 225, 225. God damn. His 40 time was second best among defensive linemen and his 32 reps were tied for sixth best.

He's doing reps with 225. Reps and he's running a four'6", fucking 40 at that size. He was one of the most scrutinized prospects entering the draft. But then we got in here and then everyone was like, oh shit, this is for real. Cause they were like, is it real? Is he really that much of an athletic guy?

Cause you'll get that, oh, where the USC coach is driving up saying his numbers were better. But no, 34 inch vertical jump by the way 34 inches for a guy who has fucking 275 pounds is Incredible Imagine if he dropped 75 pounds he fucking float through the air Yeah I mean the big guys like that have incredible because they got to carry that giant fucking meatball around but most guys can't

jump like that size. You don't get that much spring. And to be on the line being six foot and jumping 34 inches and your arms in the air. The quarterbacks got to get 12 feet aloft on that ball before it gets over the line. Golly. It's pretty goddamn impressive. So the 2010 NFL draft, here we go. The offensive rookie of the year, that year before, was Sam Bradford. Oh. Or it's this year, because he's the number one

draft pick 2010. Sam Bradford. And fuck him too. Yeah, he sucks too. That son of a bitch made so much much he had 50 million guaranteed when he signed 160 some we looked it up that one time. He was a crazy number never done a fucking thing in that career He won six games nothing and Domic and Sue is number two overall Yep, Trent Williams Eric Barry guys like that Again, I'm trying to money. Yep, Trent Williams Eric Barry guys like that

Pierre Paul is number 15 overall. So that's pretty nice They're not too much money good not too shabby at that at all. That's pretty goddamn impressive. So yeah, he's Pierre Paul that's a defensive end lot of defensive lineman here I mean to add let's see two out of the top three picks of defensive tackles Then you got Brandon Graham, Pierre Paul, Derek Morgan, all these defensive ends going in the first round. And not him though. He didn't go. Doesn't go somehow in the first round.

That's what I mean. What the fuck? There's some kind of stigma attached to him for something. What do they know? That's what I mean. They know he's kind of a little whatever. I don't think a Nantucket party could have caused this. Because the second round, Gronkowski's picked for Christ's sake, and he's a of a little whatever I don't think I don't think a nantucket party could have bought this because the second round Gronkowski's picked for

Christ's sake and he's a moron so yeah this is the this is the Aaron Hernandez draft is it oh wow it is because in the fourth round I believe yes fourth round the hundredth pick overall Everson Griffin has taken so he's taken fourth round it's up to him. Hundredth pick. And then with pick one 13, Aaron Hernandez was taken. Almost they could have had him. God damn it. But they didn't. Um, who picked, who was kind of look at the pick right after. Okay. By the way, Baltimore picked Dennis Pitta P I T T a member him.

They picked him the pick after Aaron Hernandez, another tight end. Wow. Didn't, it wasn't, you know, didn't have as much as like, you know, he's gonna be the shit, but he didn't murder anybody, and he played till 2016. Yeah, he played, he had a long career. Because he had no murders, so that works.

Yeah. Aaron Hernandez played till 2016 too, didn't he? I know, 2012, he was done. Really? It was that long ago? Yeah, he only played for like three seasons or something and then he was done. Wow! Yeah, after the second season they gave him that big deal and then he got in trouble.

That was it, yeah. That was that long ago? I think it was, yeah, that was a while ago. Wow. So he says about this, they said, hey, you got drafted so low and you're such a great player. Why?

And he said, I could have, I should have gone higher, but I was a knucklehead character issues. I was a wild cannon. I think loose is what you're going for. Yeah. People knew wild cat, loose wild. Yeah. That's it.

He said, but he said that he's thankful that he was drafted in the fourth round now later because it made him work hard. Because you're not guaranteed to even make the team on the fourth round. Yeah, sometimes being a loose cat will get you some things. So yeah, had he been a first round pick and got tons of guaranteed money, that would have just been an affirmation of whatever he was doing. And he would have kept doing that, he said. So he said he probably wouldn't have been playing football more than a few years if he was a top pick like that

So in 2010 he meets his future wife in a club We don't know where but he meets her in a club in 2010. Her name is Tiffany. Yeah, and they connect I don't know somewhere. She told her roommates. she'd met the man she was going to marry. Hell yeah, over there's the K90s. Oh baby, maybe it was. July 27th, 2010, he signs a four year, 2.33 million dollar contract. Okay.

Which is not a big contract for football, it's a fourth rounder. But it's a lot of money for a boy from Avondale. Makes the team, yeah, makes the team too. Record of the Vikings a boy from Avondale. Makes the team, yeah. He makes the team too. Record of the Vikings that year, 6 and 10. They go through two head coaches. That's Brad Childress and Leslie Frazier, neither of which did any good.

Yeah, not too great. Just not a great team overall. That was the end of Childress, because Childress was there for what, six, eight years or some shit. Something like that. Just losing his balls off. This was the, we'll bring in Brett Favre

and maybe he can fix it here. Or his 41, yeah, 41 and not working out. Jets didn't see that season apparently. Cause they did it, they've done it with him and then again too. They really love doing that. So he was inactive for the opening five games of the season and then played in the final 11 games finishing finishing his year with 11 solo tackles. And this is on

the team. I mean it's Jared Allen and guys like that are on the line. So he plays on special teams mainly because there's nowhere to break into that line. Sure. And Greenfield I think is the other guy on the other end. It was Pat Williams Brian Robison Williams Yeah, yeah Robison said we were a little hard on him He'd come in snot nose little rookie a little cocky so he had to knock him down a few notches It was fun, but definitely seeing him mature over the years has been great He's not afraid to ask questions whether it's about football or life. He'll talk to guys and figure the right way to do things. Okay. So that's it though. 11 games 11 tackles that year. That's not much going on for him. Kind of a tackle a game,

special team stuff. So these are just special teams plays and you know he's not really you know a pass rusher for them. January 28th, 2011, he gets in some trouble. Now he has a rough week this week, we'll say. He's arrested on the 28th for public intoxication in Hollywood, California. Why'd it go there? Because USC, that's where everyone knows him. January, yeah, football's over.

Three years at, yeah, three years at, you're gonna stay in fucking Minneapolis in January when you can be yeah he's not playing in the playoffs over you can be ass deep and mostly naked women before you before anything even happens you don't even have to buy him anything they're already three-quarters naked yeah like he sees that as an advantage and water is liquid here so yeah yeah you gotta get through like five layers and a parka in Minnesota so it's a little different this charge will be dropped I don't know any details about it because it just came up that he got arrested for this

but then the charge will later be dropped but three days later he has another problem January 31st 2011 here he is arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer after a traffic stop. Uh oh. Can't do that, I don't think. That's not good. The police officers needed to use a taser to subdue him after a struggle after he tried to flee on foot.

Those cops must be pretty fast if they caught him, first of all. Yeah, no shit. Jesus. According to reports, he was arrested. This is twice in three days here He was publicly intoxicated the first time then arrested for the felony charge of battery on a policeman It's considered by the way in California. It's considered a quote wobbler the charge Which means it may be filed as a misdemeanor or a felony depending on the circumstances Yeah battery on a police officer's punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment

in county jail for not exceeding one year or in the state prison for 16 months, two or three years or both if that fine and imprisonment. Okay. So he's released on $50,000 bail about nine and a half hours after he was arrested. I guess he was booked on battery. The officer says here felony battery is due in court here. They said, where is this? Yes, they said, the team said, we're aware of yesterday's alleged incident involving Everson Griffin.

At this time, the team's gathering all the facts and will withhold further comments, obviously. We're not gonna jump to conclusions around here, but he's got a court date, so we'll figure it out then. Now his friend, his childhood best friend, Jeffrey Bennett, yeah, said he called him a few days later and said, when you make bad decisions, what will you do? He asked him, will you say I could have been this or do you want to say I did that? I made bad decisions and learned from them?

He said, you're following in the footsteps that you said you wouldn't do. I know immaturity happens, but at the end of the day, ask yourself, who will I really be to be better tomorrow? Who will I really be to be better tomorrow? It's a weird way to put it. That's what he said to him. I'd go, motherfucker, I don't even understand what you're saying. Do you want a better tomorrow. It was a weird way to put it. That's what he said to him. I'd go, motherfucker I don't even understand what you're saying. Do you want a better tomorrow? What are we talking about?

Maybe this is why he's getting in trouble man. Yeah, you're speaking the riddles to the poor dummy. He's confused. That's the problem. Real just doesn't know what anybody's fucking saying here. So February 5th, 2011, after he's been arrested twice in the last calendar week here, he decides that he's going to cancel his Super Bowl party in Las Vegas that he was gonna throw. Oh Yeah, can't do that shit. He wanted to throw it actually But he was asked and test text messages The coach was asked whether he suggested to Griffin to shut down the party and Leslie Frazier the coach responded quote something like that

to shut down the party and Leslie Frazier, the coach, responded quote something like that. Something. Hey, stupid. Let's not go party and make it a fucking fool yourself. Griffin wrote on Facebook that the Vegas trip Super Bowl weekend has been canceled because quote the NFL has made the decision that this event has got too much media coverage and we're not allowed to bus people to Vegas. Oh, wow. He was going to do what? He's busing people in. Wow.

He said that he canceled the party because he said, quote, it was too big a risk. I'm a football player. Your coach told you to and you've been arrested twice in the last week or else nobody would have cared. And you are planning a fucking banger with the bosses. Jesus Christ, man. That's fucking wild. So he said he was, I guess he had advertised it as the vacation of your life and invited

anyone willing to pay $100 to partake in this all expenses paid weekend to Vegas. $100? This was like an old school, like we're all going to the Super Bowl in like 75 or some hundred bucks and we rented a bus. There's cold cuts on there. There's coolers full of beer. We're going to have kegs and we're going to go down there. You get the game and you share a room in the Motel 6 with your buddy.

And he was going from LA to Vegas? I guess so, or Arizona to anywhere. I guess. I'm assuming there's pickup spots, I would think. I'm not sure. He ends up pleading guilty to the assault on a police officer and receiving a fine and probation time. So 2011 Vikings, let's see if he can make

a better showing of himself here. They are three and 13 this year. Yeah, it was abysmal for these poor people. Vikings fans have been through it, man. They have, and they let Leslie Frazier just take it all on the chin. Three and 13. Like, listen, buddy, it's going to be bad for a while, and you're going to be the guy that's going to take it.

Then you were going to fire you, and you probably won't get another job. So that's how this is going to work. They got Donovan McNabb that year to come in at 35, and they also had Christian Ponder as a rookie who was terrible also. Not making great decisions here at all. This year he plays in all 16 games, starts zero, but he does have actually some non-special teams games.

He has four sacks that year. So gets the quarterback a little bit. 2012 Vikings, they're 10 and 6 that year under Leslie Frazier. So brought him from 3 and 13 to 10 and 6 That's pretty fucking impressive. Honestly, that is really really good Generally, I'll make the playoffs unless but you're with the Packers the Bears and the Lions I mean the Lions at this time stunk depends. Yeah, this is the beginning of Adrian Peterson here. They had Christian Ponder starting all 16 games, but Adrian Peterson was, as we know,

would carry the goddamn load for them. I mean, he was a beast at that point. Being the shit out of children the whole way. Oh, just whooping the rad. That was his motivation. Such a monster. The more touchdowns, the more lashes he would give out. That's how it worked for him.

He marked down his touchdowns with lashes on his son's back, I feel like. Gotta put another notch on the kid's back. No, shit, I think this was his fifth year that year, probably, Adrian Peterson. So in October of 2012, here, Everson and Tiffany get engaged. All right.

Tiffany's six months pregnant with their child. That'll hasten it. That'll do it quickly. I'll make it quicker Their son's name is gonna be Grayson eventually sure and his mom came to To visit and all that kind of shit. He was very excited six days after their engagement Tiffany arrived at the condo to find mom Everson's mom, lying in the stairwell.

What? Which isn't, I guess, her normal place of hanging out. Turns out she had a spontaneous artery dissection, which is when a tear forms in one of the blood vessels in the heart and blocks the blood flow and she died instantly, just dropped dead on the stairwell. Wow. Bang, hit the ground. Couldn't have have been predicted couldn't have been found just a freak thing that happens sometimes like an aneurysm that just yeah gone

just heart came apart boom just I'm done oh my god I've pumped my last pump and I'm out what a fucking nightmare she was only 52 also yeah it's so she wasn't even like 85 and it's like, well, what do you want? Your heart's weak. It's seen enough. No, 52. I mean, I saw the Olympics and I saw how big people are that throw those shot puts. So I just hope.

Oh, they're big. She's probably a big woman. Yeah. I just hope she was really big and her body couldn't take how enormous she was of an athlete because otherwise I'm going to the doctor tomorrow. Every step you take that can happen. Every step you take is fucking luck you guys. Terrifying isn't it? Every step you take is death. Have a great day everybody. Thanks for joining us. Hope your heart doesn't come apart. Oh man. Hope your heart just doesn't explode in the middle of you walking down a stairwell at your son's condo.

That's incredible, man. So he missed several days of practice to attend the memorial and the funeral. I almost said mo-funeral. Mo-funeral. I almost said to them a funeral. Mum funeral. But he played the Vikings game the following week though. He said, when my mom passed, it was really, really hard on me.

Well, yeah, I would think so unless you're a monster Passed away any way to say or fucking heart erupted That is a nice way of saying my mom's dead and I don't want to say dead because it's my mom and I feel bad It hurts hurts my heart and I'm worried about that. So I gotta stop feeling like that. I Put my issues to the curb. I felt like I had to just keep moving forward. I didn't process it for a long time. Plus you're in the middle of an NFL season and you have a kid being born real soon here.

There's a lot going on here. And his son was born January of 2015 or 2013, I'm sorry. His middle name was a tribute to his mom. Tiffany? Scott. It was Grayson Scott Griffin after her last name here. Was it her first name Tiffany or Stephanie or some shit like that?

Sabrina. Sabrina, right. Yeah, Sabrina. Tiffany, the wife, said, Sabrina was so excited about the baby on the way, she's already bought him gifts and was so full of joy. If she were still here, she'd probably be living with us and loving every minute of it. Really? So Tiffany's like, so I had her murdered because I can't take that shit.

I lose them to step. I didn't marry an NFL player to have this old bag hanging around and crap of my shit every five fucking minutes. Mom in the house. So this year, 16 games, he starts one game. So he still only started one game in three years. Tough line to break into, which is probably why the Vikings didn't take him earlier. He starts one game, he has eight sacks this year though. I mean, eight sacks for a non-starter is tremendous. That's great. I mean, a lot of starters don't have eight sacks, so that's really great.

And an interception as well. So two fumble recoveries. So he's doing pretty well Not too shabby here. I would say 2013 Vikings back to five ten and one You had it and you lost it Leslie Frazier now your happen. You're back down again here Is Christian Ponder your starter or something? I see still your starter Jesus Christ I think didn't ponder get hurt that year Josh Freeman started one game for them Oh, no, I remember that that is they had injuries. I remember this pretty clearly

They signed Josh Freeman because Tampa had dumped him Yeah And they signed him and like started him like that week or some shit if I remember correctly because they had bed for fucking 16 I was I assume so just cuz a he just got there and B is Josh Freeman so I would assume he He fucked up Christian Ponder started nine games that year. So who's the other quarterback? I gotta find this I gotta find out who's the other loser. It must have been Only one game for Freeman was it not the guy from the Eagles? Matt Castle. The other guy. Get the fuck out. Matt Castle the backup from Oh, cuz he had fucking three good games. Yeah, so they signed him some on a Super Bowl team. Yeah

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Back to being Scott Will, or Scott Mitchell. So again, this year, 2013 plays in all 16 games starts zero. Really? I don't think this is the career he was looking for here. Yeah. Five and a half sacks though. He's making the best of what he can do. March of 2014 he gets a new deal. They signed him because I think they realized too we're not even starting him he's getting sacks and someone's gonna sign him so they give him a five-year 42.5 million dollar deal. That's better. That's now we're talking yeah

now we can sell that condo and move into something with our own fucking walls now we get a foundation that doesn't have walls attached to other people own walls somebody sets their shit on fire I don't care not gonna wait the only reason we have a gate is because we want the home gate. That's 20 million guaranteed. Golly. That is impressive, which is he hasn't even had a big year yet. That's the crazy part. They're just banking on a breakout year here. They said he fills fills in at both end spots, rushes from a defensive tackle spot on third downs. He's very versatile. So they like that. Also he'll drop into coverage and he intercepted Sam Bradford in week 15 because he's terrible

And ran it back 29 yards for a touchdown and a key win against all he got a pick six on him Oh, that's so embarrassing Also secured the Vikings first win of 2013 by sacking Ben Rothlisberger forcing a fumble that ended Pittsburgh's potential game tying our drive. So not too shabby here. I guess they were talking about a new deal all season and then finally came to fruition. Next year, Leslie Frazier is gone. Mike Zimmer is in here now.

Another one of these fucking nameless mediocre coaches. I think Zimmer came from Detroit after this. Seven and nine, or was it the Rams? Did he come from the Rams? I don't remember either way seven and nine They are that year. So not that great Teddy Bridgewater starting 12 games when they drafted him So Teddy Bridgewater starting 12 Matt Castle starting three. That means there's a game floating somewhere. Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Somebody that's two games.

Christian Ponder now down to one start. He went from 16 games, nine games, one game done by Christian Ponder. Bye Mr. Ponder. Wow. First round draft pick Christian practice this race. Welcome to Christian Ponder GMC. Yes. Welcome to Christian Ponder State Farm Branch. Jesus Christ. So prior to the 2014 season,

Jared Allen signed with the Bears. So Griffin earns the starting right end position and has a breakout year, 57 tackles, 12 sacks. Holy shit. Doing fucking great. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Minnesota, the defensive line coach said he had a lot of raw talent in 2014. He was still learning how to be a pro football player and he was figuring out who Everson is as a person. We've had several conversations on what his legacy is going to be as a man. Over time I think those messages started setting, started to set in and he's starting to live

his life that way. They said he worked out incessantly and he began using his off day to pour over film, breaking down opponents and finding potential weaknesses, you know, like great players do. Right. Yeah. Unless you're, you know, fucking Lawrence Taylor and can sleep through meetings and still get terrorize everybody. Unless you're that guy, you got to study every goddamn day. Yeah.

There's like, there've been like four guys that can do it without doing that. Yeah. Not many. So he also scheduled massage therapy and acupuncture and bought a hyperbaric chamber. Oh yeah. Oh boy. Holy shit. One guy said here, the thing I like about Griff, now he's Griff, not Ed. Now he's got a nickname, yeah. Is it doesn't matter how talented he is, it doesn't matter what accolades he's getting, he works hard day in and day out and he's going to put literally everything he has into it. That's Robeson, the other teammate.

He's still he seems to be more in tune with how offensive work offenses work and off the field. He's become a family man. He's all about his kids and spending as much time with them as possible. He coached his son's soccer team this year. What is he two and a half? Yeah, Jesus Christ. That must have been a mess. The balls are as big as the kids.

Yeah dude, oh it's the most miserable. It's like watching goldfish racing. It sucks so much. It's got to be just like kids kicking each other in the shins over and over again, right? They have no control over where that's going. Jesus it's so bad. Oh my god he said he didn't want to do that. He didn't want to be a head coach. He said too many parents yelling at you can't deal with that. That is that too. That sucks. That is big shit He was named NFC defensive player of the month in October after recording six sacks and a forced fumble in four games Not bad. So does very well this year 2015 his second son is born Ellis

Who should be out on the soccer field any minute now I would think if he just by mid 2015 he's out there at his diapers 2015 11 and five under Mike Zimmer. Okay. Not too goddamn shabby here. Who's quarterbacking this year? Teddy Bridgewater all 16 games. I think he got three four years out of them. They did yeah he was good he's just injury prone he's too skinny that's the problem. this year 15 games played ten and a half sacks for Griffin and he's a pro bowler now How about that? Look at you? He's made fucking good on his contract and everything. He's doing great 2016 back to eight and eight for the Vikings. I think Bridgewater was hurt this year. Oh this year Yeah, but Sam Bradford is now their quarterback. Oh, wow. Remember that? Yep.

I remember that. Rams to the jets to them. Is that what happened? Did he go to the jets? Or maybe the jets. I can't remember now. I don't know. Bradford started 15 games for them. Fuck. So that means there's one game outstanding. They had to pay him a chunk of that giant money he made. That's Sean Hill started the other game. That was the year Bridgewater got hurt in preseason. Remember that?

Okay, yeah. So that's how that happened there. Although they also got Javon. Oh, that's J-Ron Curse, not Javon Curse. I was like, they got Javon Curse? No, they did not, as a matter of fact. There. He is fined for roughing the passer this year.

He's fined $18,231 for knocking the shit out of Marcus Mariota. Oh really? Yeah, it doesn't take much to do that though. I mean, they did that to him a lot. Lots of guys have done that. Poor bastard. Lots of guys did that. His career was over fast wasn't it?

Jesus. Yeah, it was a quick one too. he was like a number two overall draft pick but he's like a runner and just wasn't such a deal they were getting him in the league and just nothing big ol big ol nothing burger quarterbacks are two out of ten for those guys like that that are gonna be stars he's a Griffin's a pro bowler again this year starts all 16 games as eight sacks, three fumble recoveries, one return for a 20-yard touchdown. Okay. So not too bad, two forced fumbles. He's good. So good they decide to give him a four-year contract extension this year for 58 million dollars. This motherfucker

has a hundred million dollars not so fast because that's not all guaranteed as we know I know as we'll find out here 2017 Vikings are 13 and 3 hell yeah fuck all your mothers that's right Mike Zimmer's coming to your mom's house Mike Zimmer's coming to fuck your mom's face that's who's coming. What quarterback did this? In the face, Mike Zimmer. This is, let's see, quarterback, quarterback. Sam Bradford started two games. Teddy Bridgewater started zero games when he's on the team

and at least on the roster that year. But they've got, oh, I know, is it? Case Keenum. Is that right? It is, Case Keenum starting 14 goddamn games for that year. But they've got Adrian Peterson still, and he's doing great, right? Case Keenum starting 14 goddamn games. But they've got Adrian Peterson still, and he's doing great, right? I believe so, or did they get rid of him by then?

They got Burleson, they're doing terrific with actual weapons. Yeah, they're doing, yeah, to have a 13-3 record, you have to have a pretty damn good team. This year, they beat the Saints 29-24 in the first round of the playoffs, go to the conference championship game to get absolutely smoked by the Eagles 38-7, as they often do. The Vikings are the NFC championship game whipping

boys. Yeah, yeah. They love being just embarrassed on action TV in the championship game. The team that, the Giants team that lost to the Ravens back in the day, 2001 or whatever, got shit hammered by the Ravens with Kerry Collins at quarterback. The Giants had beat them, I want to say 41-0 in the NFC championship game. 41-0. Smoked them. It was the craziest game.

The Falcons team that Denver beat in the Super Bowl beat them in the championship. Yeah. They probably should know but they did. They did. That's after they squeaked by Tampa I want to say. One of those 15-13 games or like you know 12-10 or some weird remember those weird defensive Tampa games back then. Thanksgiving Day November 23rd 2017 a third son is born. Is that right? are you gonna name one after yourself or not motherfucker let's do this the Vikings were playing in Detroit again Thanksgiving Day game they're playing Tiffany went into labor four weeks early Wow so she facetimed Everson during the pregame so he could

watch the birth live and then go play What a day, you know, hold on my wife's giving birth right now wait one second I'll be hold on no hold on I'm staring at my wife's enormous vagina right now, baby breathe. All right. Yeah, you're gonna want to breathe more and That ain't never going back Y'all are gonna tighten that up, right? You're gonna fix that shit when it's over? Three or four extra stitches, right? Right? I'm gonna throw up. Oh, man.

So, yeah, so he did that. After sacking Matthew Stafford, he lifted his jersey to display a handwritten message on his undershirt that said, I just had a baby boy, what should we name him? Which is pretty funny. I'm sure he got fined for that,. While he and Tiffany enjoyed reading the creative array of responses, they chose Sebastian, which was the name they picked anyway. Oh, okay. Trying to act like somebody else helped them with that?

No, no. They said we ended up going with our own thing, but it was a neat way to get attention anyway. So November 30th 2017 he reveals the name Sebastian and says also that he'll make his kids wait to play football. Okay. Yeah, he apparently said that, he said, oh, they said, oh, he said, yes, he's very happy with the name and he's very happy with that. He said the two didn't have a name picked out prior to birth, that's why he did the thing with the jersey. He said I got lots of suggestions. Thunderbolt, a lot of creative names.

Thundercat. Thundercat, Thunderbolt. Mike Zimmer was one of the ones they suggested. Name him Mike Zimmer. Name him Mike Zimmer, Griffin. He said I forget how many names I went through. He said he didn't get any suggestions. He seriously considered what was happy to announce that.

He said that Griffin's, they called him a little sea bass. So, you know, Sebastian there. So yeah, he said, we're not done. We love them kids. I plan on having four or five. We're gonna have a big family. What the fuck is wrong with you? He said that he'll support his kid's desire to follow in their dad's footsteps as a football player, but he won't be

introduced them to the game till they're older. He said, I will allow them to play but they won't play until their freshman year in high school, I guess like him. He said, I'm gonna hold them back and let them play baseball, soccer, and basketball. I didn't start playing tackle until freshman year in high school. The brain's a sensitive area I want it as I want less contact as possible Which the way he said that means he's had a lot of contact Lot of contact but that makes sense But unless they're an athletic freak like you they're gonna need to have better grip of the game by then

But it's good that he's aware of it, he's making sense. Yeah, a lot of guys actually, a lot of the positions, quarterback, you need to play it since you're five, because there's just so much to learn, you can't just come into it when you're 16 and start learning that, it's not gonna work. Reading a defense is not easy. It's so much shit, middle linebackers kinda like that too,

because you have to know everything, center is a little bit like that. Every other position you can pretty much go run that way and teach a guy to fucking play it. It's not that difficult. Block, run this route. He did get a $6,076 fine from the NFL for writing that shit on his shirt.

Yeah, later on he got it. He said, I haven't gotten a fine, so hopefully I won't see one. This was that day I'm supporting my baby. It's not like I had something negative to say If they give me one, oh, well, i'll take that fine. I was just happy my baby was born I was disappointed. I wasn't able to see it, but I saw it over facetime it We're happy the baby's healthy. My wife is healthy. We're happy. So So many more of these it's so many it's i'm gonna have a bunch of it's now that December 28th

2017 big old fluff piece on him really big old fluff piece He said it takes a man a long time to grow up sure. Oh, he's saying but now he's a mature You know different kind of guys with guy that you can trust and everything like that. He's just a dad for Christ's sake. He's a dad, he's a workout kind of guy. He's a- He's a fucking coach, James. He's a soccer coach of toddlers.

He's, he said, I go into a game expecting a sack. I know I can beat this guy at least one time to get to the quarterback. Wow. So not too shabby. He's doing really well. He says, I bet people look at me now like, Everson's got three kids and married? Who?

Who's that woman over here that changed him? My family is what I'm most proud of. I couldn't do it without them. That's a fascinating way of telling your wife that she dodged herpes. She died. Well, you don't know if she dodged it or not. Or other things. she dodged herpes. She died. Well, you don't know if she dodged it or not. Yeah, or other million dollars in contract. Who's the woman that kept him from fucking everything like he used to?

How the fuck did you do that? Tiffany said he's definitely become more dedicated. Now he knows what it takes to be great. He knows he can do it. So he made the decision and he goes all in. This year is the most consistent he's ever been. I think figuring out his mental game and knowing who he is as a person played a big role. It's all clicking now. During the summer the family stays in Minnesota and takes their 26 foot deck boat out on Lake Minnetonka. Griffin loves tubing and wrestling with his boys and

hanging out at home. He says that he'll often take her to the Mall of America where he'll stand in the rotunda yelling Tiffany as loud as possible while dancing around. Doesn't mind attention. Yeah, doesn't mind the attention. He said that he has 61 sacks for his career at this point in the season. He says, I know I can get to 100. That's my goal. He says, I think the biggest Jared says I know I can get to 100 that's my goal. He says I think the biggest Jared Allen said I think the biggest difference this year is he moves very fluidly there's not a lot of wasted movement he has great get off and he's as fast as can be he's a powerful and has a great instinct to find the ball.

What are the chances he backs that boat to the water by himself? Yeah I think so come on. Somebody else do this for me. Please, I'm not fucking back in that fucking boat into anywhere. That's very hard, man. That's a big goddamn boat. So yeah, one of the coaches said, we're just now starting to see the best of him.

He's gonna continue to get better and better because he's figuring this game out. And most importantly, he's figuring life out. Yeah. This big time fluff piece piece they said it's starting to see this amazing talent that this guy is. He said he's a standout defensive end, relentless worker, team leader, devoted father and husband, just amazing. Great guy. Yeah. Great guy, everything's going great. This year

another Pro Bowl appearance, 15 games, 13 sacksacks doing goddamn good time Pro Bowler three times that is three times so far soon as he started starting his first season starting he wasn't a Pro Bowler then he's been a Pro Bowler every year so not good and he was a second team all Pro that year so very good 2018 sure Vikings are eight seven and one yeah Mike Zimmer. Gotta give him a chance here. Who's quarterback in this team? Kirk Cousins all 16 games. Every year they have a different quarterback. They wonder why they're not consistent. Well they hang on to Kirk for years. For years finally, yeah, after that. But they're up until... No wonder why they

hung on to him like grim death because they went through think about that ponder and bridge water For fuck's sake Brett farve it started with it's been like seven years of shit. It's gonna be mass suicide in Minneapolis Oh my god, September 25th 2018 this is After all that fluff and everything and how what a great mature person he is he has a huge breakdown mentally yeah he's undergoing mental health evaluation in a hospital as details emerged where he was yeah this isn't of his own volition by the way this is has to be in this committed he is in here according to a police report, yeah,

his wife Tiffany said he left home on September 16th after he awoke suddenly in the middle of the night, which is something he does at times when quote, fighting demons in his head. Oh no. Oh, we don't like this. Last time we heard about demons, they were in the air conditioner and it was like a be a boochie and I was terrified. So I don't like that. Last time we heard about demons they were in the air conditioner and it was like a be a boochie and I was terrified so I don't like that. His wife said he returned briefly on Wednesday for an hour before leaving again until Saturday. He started this on a Monday. This is nuts. She said he wasn't making sense and ordered her to leave the couple's home before he

went to the Hotel Ivy in downtown Minneapolis where he stays sometimes during the week for some reason. Is that right? So this gets worse. It was at the Hotel Ivy that he threatened to shoot staff members who called police on him. He wasn't arrested and left on his own and those who reported the incident said

they didn't see a gun, he didn't threaten, he didn't point it at people, but he said he would shoot people and then the cops got there, he didn't see a gun. He didn't threaten him pointed at people. We said he would shoot people and the cops got there. He didn't have a gun or anything. So they just let him go because he's on the Vikings. So he stays there all the time, too. They were like, I don't know. He's having an issue. So his wife notified police because he was just gone.

She notified police that he needs medication for his mental struggles and probably hasn't slept in days what is going on he's bipolar we find out oh so he's on some kind of weird crazy manic episode yeah where he goes out for days doesn't take his medication so an officer called called Everson on his cell phone and Everson said he was going to be gone for about a week but the guy said he was not speaking coherently on the phone. He was saying crazy shit that he couldn't understand. So Tiffany again contacted the police to inform them that Everson said he was at Viking's teammate Trey Wayne's house. Going to Trey Wayne's house. Not to hang out. Trey's not having a barbecue or anything.

No. Trey isn's house not to hang out Trey's not having a barbecue or anything no Trey isn't even home he's there trying to break into the house I'm gonna sleep on Trey's couch whether he likes it or not this is fucking nuts dude yeah so his wife he called his wife to tell her that and police said hey Gary she called the cops to say if you look my husband is here. He's trying to break into his teammates house He's fucked up in the head. He's mentally having a problem. You gotta help him So he later returned home the cops didn't catch up to him. He returned home with no shirt on oh Boy and was driven in a trip by a man in a truck who had seen him at a gas station

Recognized him and gave him a ride. Where's his car? Where's his shirt? Fuck a car, he doesn't even have clothes on. When is this? Is this in winter months in Minneapolis? September, September. Early September, so it's nice out. It's still chilly enough, right?

No, we were just there, it was beautiful, remember? You should still have a shirt on, right? Oh, it was shirt weather, yeah. It's definitely shirt weather. It's always t-shirt weather, first of all. It's never not t-shirt weather, everybody. We can always pop a t-shirt on. I'll accept a tank top out of you. You're a big muscle-y guy, so maybe you want to show that off.

Put your nipples and belly button away. I don't want to see your nipples, essentially, is what it is. So he gets home. His wife told the cops he's home now because they were looking for him because he's leaving a trail of destruction all over the place. He said they said that the cops that he was making comments about angels. And they said, well, why did you go to Trey Wayne's house? And he said, God made me do it. A bunch of question marks in his fucking path, dude.

This is crazy. Wow. So he agreed to be taken for a mental health treatment, but the report said that on the way they put him in an ambulance to go at a light or something, he fucking jumped out of the ambulance and took off. But then later they caught up to him wandering around in the street and he agreed to continue the trip with a police escort He said I'll go but you follow me

So Griffith Griffiths Griffin's wife told the cops that he'd been growing increasingly paranoid Which isn't great. I guess increasingly paranoid and feared someone was gonna kill him in the days and weeks leading up to this He's been getting worse and worse. She said This is fucking crazy. So at the hotel, there was a weird fucking thing. They said it was in the middle of the day on a Saturday. He's threatening to shoot the staff members, which is a lot, man. They said, yeah, an emergency dispatcher related to officers that a man had issued threats

unless the hotel staff allowed him in his room. I guess he threatened to assault staff members before leaving the hotel. The officers didn't make any arrests after they didn't find the gun like we said. The Tom Palacero of the NFL Network reported two sources with the Vikings strongly deny the report that he was arrested. He wasn't arrested. He was taken for a mental health evaluation. It's a different thing here. The Vikings general manager Rick Spielman offered a statement on the allegations. Said, quote, We're aware of the situation involving Everson Griffin and certainly concerned by what we've heard.

We're currently focused on Everson's well-being and providing the appropriate support for him and his family. That's probably good. Head coach Mike Zimmer said he's having a personal matter and I'm going to leave it at that. And that's why you name your kid after him. Yeah. Because he gives you tight quotes like that. So a couple days later, they're talking about he is battling serious mental health related issues and is undergoing an evaluation They said that this Palisades that I had two team sources reach out to me to specifically Refute a report that Griffin was arrested over the weekend in connection to an attempted break-in at one of his teammates houses Holy shit. This is a fucking mess, man This is bad.

The team said we were aware of the situation and concerned with what we've heard. They said the only thing that we're concerned about is that for Everson isn't anything to do with football. It's about getting him better. In the five years that I've been here, I've always loved Everson. This is Zimmer. The effort that he puts out, the work that he does, chance on to count him in game time even in practice. He's always been a really really good model for us and obviously he's going through some

tough times now. So he's going to be on leave now. Just on leave in an undisclosed location they said. So they said will he be back this year and the the LA said was it's a personal matter. We don't know So who the hell yeah, they don't know they said there's you know, who knows but he is banned from practice though That is one thing. He's not allowed to come. No, probably not They said we're gonna we're gonna help him out and help out his family and all that But he certainly can't come to practice and fuck all this shit up here

So, um, I guess apparently the hotel situation was happened at 1 30 in the afternoon here and he was threatening assault employees and lying on the lobby floor, which is weird. Emergency audio dispatch revealed as the events unfolded that he said that if someone doesn't isn't going to let him in his room, he's going to shoot someone, but no gun was seen. 130, this sounds like me on the road, is what this sounds like. I never tried this.

I've said some crazy shit too. But I don't get in my room right now. I never tried lying down on the floor in the lobby. Maybe that'll work. I'm gonna try that next time. I did do that in fucking, I did do that in D.C. when my, evidently there's a battery in the lock on those doors. And that hotel, the fucking battery died

and we were leaving it, I had to leave at four in the morning. And so when I went to open the door, it wouldn't open, I went down to the front desk and he goes, yeah, the guys are gone, maintenance is gone, they'll be back at six. I was like, well, I'm leaving at four, so somebody better get that door open.

He's like, well, I'll call somebody. I'm like, well, then I'm going to sit right here. I sat in the lobby and stared right at that wall. Where else are you going to go? Yeah, I can't get in my room, man. What do you want from me? Same thing with me. I'll show up and your room's not ready and I've got to sit there for three hours. Well, you're going to see me the whole time. I'm going to stare right in your dumb fucking face. I'm going to sit here. I am. I am going to fucking sit here. I'm going to be like your dumb fucking face. I am. I am gonna fucking sit here. I'm gonna be like a gargoyle in your fucking lobby. Next time I'm laying down fuck it. I'm not going anywhere.

I never thought about that next time I'm gonna try that. I'm not gonna say I'm gonna shoot anybody, but I can understand why you would say something. I've my mom said shit like that. You know I mean I've heard people say wild shit under the circumstances in the heat of the moment. Somebody's gonna fucking die if I don't get my food. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

He was too specific though. He said, I will shoot you, which I think is. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a little too specific, I think. There will be bodies if I don't get in my room tonight. When you start mentioning the specific conveyance of how you're gonna get there from A to B, I feel like that's where it turns serious.

I'm gonna put bullets through your face. Yeah, that's where it's certainly serious. So apparently, I guess Griffin's wife had called about the Trey Wayne's house thing. They called, she called his home, I guess they lived down the road, this Trey Wayne's Wayne's house thing they called a she called his home I guess they lived down the road this Trey Wayne's guy and Griffin was trying to break in had jumped through the bushes and was shirtless so that's when his wife was calling the cops and all this type of

shit but the they said that he's his wife said that he showed up in a pickup truck with someone who didn't know what to do with him. He just brought him home. I was like, I guess. I don't know. I looked at his ID and said to bring him here. Yeah, I scanned him. He had a chip and they said to bring it here. If lost, please return to.

So they met him outside and Griffin was making comments about 777 having to do with angels and that God made him go to his friend's house there and all that kind of shit. So that is a lot, man. That's just a lot. Wow. That's so much.

So he isn't just having a shit of a mess here. He said he's focused once he's all kind of, I guess, drugged up or whatever. He says he's focused on resolving personal issues. And yeah, he's got a complete mental health evaluations and all this type of shit, and they said that, he said that the situation became unmanageable the past week for him and for everybody, I guess, here. So 2019, he reduces his base salary. He takes a pay cut, essentially.

If we can't count on you, then we gotta take money from you. Yeah, he was supposed to get 10.9 million, instead he's getting 6.4 million. And also some bonuses as well. This is to clear cap space, is how this works. 2019, the Vikings are 10 and six, they beat the Saints in the wild card division again,

and then lose to the 49ers in the divisional round They're not gonna win it ever Kirk cousins again starting 15 games here. So they have a whole different thing going on This year he is yeah, so he does just find Pro Bowl year again The year before the mental health issue year He had he's played in 10 games and didn't make the Pro Bowl and five and a half sacks. This year he has eight sacks but makes the Pro Bowl. Great. So does pretty well there not too bad. Now

he declines a three-year option with Minnesota after that. I don't know if he declined or they declined but either way. They're mutual, who knows? Clears a lot of cap space for Minnesota. April 10th, 2020, he is talking about how 2018 actually changed his life and probably saved it. It should, yeah. He said that he wasn't, when he went to rehab, or not to rehab, to treatment, sorry, I'm used to, this is crime and sports, I'm used to rehab.

I'm not used to- Mental rehab. Hospital here. It's the same thing. He wasn't allowed to bring a cell phone with him, but he was allowed to bring a pass rushing dummy with him. So he could work on that apparently, yeah. There was a small area in the back of the facility where he would fucking do this at.

And yeah, he said between classes and art sessions and evaluations, he would go to the gym and do this. That's all he would do. So yeah, he said, so the problem is too, there's also apparently some substances mixed in with this as well. We'll talk, we'll let him explain it with it in their own words here. What do you say? I think he will hear in their own words, quote, nobody knew that I was living in a sober house. I lived in the sober house for three months from October to the end of the season. I was living like I was in college, had a roommate, had a little bit of clothes. I was going to my meetings.

I did the whole nine. That was part of my recovery just to reset. I wanted to reset. Drugs did this? Apparently so. He goes on to say, and I'm happy that 2018 happened because I wouldn't be sitting here today being able to tell my story and showing teams that I'm strong, I'm healthy. There's nothing really that you have to worry about because I'm doing all the right things. There's nothing I'm doing behind the scenes that they should be worried about. I'm doing everything possible

to make sure that 2018 doesn't happen again, and it will not happen. Yeah Said it's just taking a lot of patience and self-reflection He said it's like why haven't more teams been interested and the reason why is because they don't know Everson This is him saying this about him by the way So what they know is shit from apparently it wasn't just everything was fine on the field Then he was a little wacky outside the field 2018 there was verbal outbursts and practice and stuff like that that made the Vikings order him to undergo a mental health evaluation Sure as well and he didn't do it. So like that's he's been acting a little fucking a little crazy

Substances he's doing no, I don't know if it's pills here what's going on, but he definitely has bipolar disorder Oh, no, they he does not have bipolar disorder. I'm sorry. So yeah, this is gotta be pills here So they went through extensive evaluation with the best doctors available and this is according to his agent now They ruled out serious mental health issues such as bipolar disorder. Yeah. So he admitted using cannabis that week. Weed is not making you do that.

That didn't do it. I'm never shirtless at my neighbor's house ever. I've been panic high before. You go into your room and you disappear. Yeah. You don't want anybody to see you that way because it's fucking embarrassing. It's not how you want to be seen cowering. I'm a man that can't handle drugs.

I need to go sleep. Oh God. But his agent said chemical dependency is not diagnosed either. Just hair turning silver. He said he's in pursuit of his health and he's abstaining from any kinds of drugs and he's doing great. And Griffin said that was part of the program to stay in the sober house to make sure he could get back on track the proper way. After five weeks of evaluation, the doctors concluded his erratic behavior resulted from significant unresolved emotional

distress, emotional incongruence and lack of healthy coping skills. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Yeah, drugs or something. There's something you you're not just under some pressure and having emotional distress and unresolved We all have unresolved emotional distress I realized the Minnesota Viking season doesn't rest on my shoulders of my line rushing But I have a lot of fucking stress and yeah still gotta get through the day. It's still gotta wake up and do my job Yeah I gotta get through the day. I still gotta wake up and do my job. Yeah. So they said, wow, this is. I got a lot of problems, I assure you. This is, they said, quote, in short,

his unprocessed emotions from a lifetime of really unfortunate and painful experiences. What? Including his mother's death in October 2012, finally boiled over the top. As a result, Everson coped by Relationally detaching and acting out in ways that were uncharacteristic of his NFL career While that experience cost him five weeks of the season. It's also changed his life in very positive ways

He called it a big eye-opener that things need to be resolved in his life Okay, interesting So they said said that the details he has discussed only with a team of medical professionals, therapists, clinical psychologists, a life coach who he says he speaks with on a daily basis. Yeah. Interesting. So yeah, he says he needs to reprioritize his life around his wife and three sons and yeah, he said because otherwise shits all fucked up. He said it was all a big spectacle. He said it was all a big spectacle. He said it was televised videos.

Everybody counted me out. What? Yeah, so he had some fucking problems. He said all these red flags and all these things that people questioned about inconsistent play and leadership ability and character. So now he's set his daily goals now and everything, including reading books. You know what he's reading at this moment healing the child within And expanding it In my pen movie

He says that he's discussed with his medical team all the variables that would come along with moving to a new city and they'd be With him every step of the way that would come along with moving to a new city and they'd be with him every step of the way. Yeah. So he's ready to fucking go. He said, I'm going to do anything possible in my body and make sure I'm putting myself and the team in a position to win.

I'm gonna make sure I take care of myself too, because that's the most important part, taking care of myself. That's the new Everson. Okay. I'm finally taking care of myself, not just in a physical way, in a mental way, in a healthy way, and really taking ownership in it and growth and growing from that and being able

to identify my flaws and failures. I feel the best I've ever had. I feel very capable of going into a new environment and learning the ropes. It's just been fun to be in the league for 10 years. It's been a blessing. Four Pro Bowls, one second team all Pro. There's been some optical obstacles, but through the obstacles I fought back each and every time and have proven that I'm the guy you can count on except for last year. Right. So that one time. So August 16th, 2020 signs with Dallas one year contract with the

Dallas Cowboys. And he said he grew up as a Cowboys fan and was named after Everson Walls, by the way. Is that right? The Cowboy defensive end. And he won a Super Bowl with the Giants in 1991 as well. Everson Walls, yeah, number 28. He's a fucking good defensive back. So yeah, interesting.

Named after Everson Walls, which before the Cardinals were in Phoenix and even afterwards the Cowboy games were the game that everybody watched. Everybody there was a Cowboy fan. There's so many Cowboy fans here. And they all turned into Cardinal fans who hate the Cowboys. When the Cardinals are good. Yeah, as soon as the Cardinals start stinking, those Cowboys jerseys start popping up. Here comes my Troy Aikman jersey out of the closet. Wipe the fucking mold off of it. Big Deion Sanders fan. No shit. So he's

gonna end up with two teams this year. He's gonna end up with the Cowboys for a while then he's gonna end up with with the Lions. So two teams here this year. He's traded in October for a sixth round draft pick. Oh. So yeah, he goes to the Lions who are 5 and 11 that year. Yeah, they stink. Two different coaches and not doing well. Who's their quarterback? God damn it. That's going to be Matt Stafford. I think so. I'm saying was he hurt or something this year? I don't even know. Chase Daniel. No, they just suck.

They just suck. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right. Yeah, because it Chase Daniel played the two games. No, they just suck. They just suck, yeah. I think you're right, yeah, because it's gotta be Stafford, it's gotta be. Wait, what year? It's just seeing if he started. 19? 2020, I believe. Yes, it's definitely Stafford.

No! Yeah, played all 16 games he started. All 16 games, yep, absolutely. Next year he went to the Rams. Yep, so 2021, back to the Vikings. Uh-huh. Signs a one-year, $1.075 million contract to the Vikings signs a one year, 1.0 75 million dollar contract with the Vikings. So not much in terms of money for what he's used to anyway.

2021 there eight and nine still Mike Zimmer hanging in there. Can't get rid of the can't shake that Mike Zimmer boy. He will come with you wherever you're going. He's going to go be an online coach somewhere soon though. Somewhere he's going to be gone. Kirk Cousins still quarterback and all that kind of shit still going on here. He was part of the initial roster cuts on August 31st but then re-signed three days later.

So he is I guess September 17th, 2021. He's in a car accident after swerving to miss a deer. Okay. Which is what people say when they're in one car accidents that they don't want anyone to know what happened. Sure. Sure. Yeah.

You can always blame a deer. I missed him. He took off. Yeah. Fuck that. Yeah. Yeah. What was it?

Where is he fucked? Fucked to find out woods. I don't know. That way. Ranger Rick. I have no fucking idea. Who do I look like? Oh Jesus. So he landed on the injury report because he got a concussion and is ruled out for the game, the next game coming up. He earns a mispractice and everything else. There's the concussion protocol. Even if you don't get a concussion on the field. Yeah, still a concussion. So the Minnesota Public Safety Department said that Griffin told officers at the scene he lost control of the car when he swerved to miss a deer in the road. The car then left the road and crashed into a tree.

Jesus Christ. Okay, November 24th, 2021. Little problem. I'll read this article. A situation at the home of Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffin has ended peacefully After an apparent mental health incident led to a response by a local police and team staff and team staff Mike Zimmer showing up. Oh boy I guess the situation had been ongoing since early Wednesday morning before police announced in the afternoon. It had been resolved

That says standoff to me. Griffin33 posted a disturbing video on his Instagram early Wednesday morning showing him holding a gun. The video was then deleted but followed up by screenshots of text messages to his agents asking for help and telling him to call 911 saying someone was trying to kill him. That post was also deleted. Holy shit. So he's sending out crazy text, posting them, oh shit I'll delete that. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said officers and other law enforcement agencies responded to his house at around 3 a.m. after he called 911 saying someone was inside of his home he reportedly told the dispatcher he fired a weapon but nobody

was injured he's bucking shots off there's three kids in this house holy shit doors cops got there no intruder was located because they doesn't exist head yeah it's in his fucking head So he's got some mental health issue. There's something crazy They took him to a facility did all these tests and said nope. He's got nothing wrong with it unless you're on like a four-day coke binge or Something or you're mentally ill. That's the only things that caused this. That's Generally, yeah, I mean yeah. What else could cause this kind of crazy? You're either mentally ill or you're on something and I imagine the the hospital took a urine sample to UA and

try and figure out what's happening. If there's nothing in that though then you've got a demon chemical is naturally occurring in the brain. then you've got a demon chemical is is Naturally occurring in the brain. He's just got demon juice in there. That's what happens sometimes good the demon juice gets loose and that's that So they said law enforcement said that Vikings team Psychologists had been in communication with him since 7 a.m.. But he refused to come out of his home Shortly before 3.30pm, the viking said law enforcement agencies have notified us that Everson Griffin came out of his home without incident and is now getting the care he needs. Our focus remains on Everson's health and safety and providing the proper resources

for him and his family as they scramble the waiver wire for another defense event. That's their focus the team thanked agencies for ensuring the situation ended peacefully and coach Mike Zimmer said he was made aware of the situation early in the morning and he talked to the team who couldn't comment any further and Zimmer said it's not really our concern right now about football or the game this weekend it's really about him we're only concerned about his well-being he's been with us a long time. Good guy, works hard. Is there a happy medium between what it used to be of, well, I don't know, they're

going to sew his leg back on, but we're signing another guy. We don't give a shit about him to this pretend that they're family horse shit. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not buying this bullshit. It's gotta be one extreme or the other, doesn't it? No. To show inclusivity and that we're all in this together. But it's, it's not, this is just like, it's just lying. I mean, you're the head coach of a football team. You're worried about who's lining up at the fence of end this weekend because if someone doesn't line up there you have a couple Of bad games you're gonna get fired. Yeah, but the NFL now has to be Yeah, it has to be because otherwise they're gonna be sued into oblivion for

Demolishing people and acting like they don't know what they're doing I think this is just for not doing anything real about concussions for so many years. I mean still They're still not doing shit. They let that motherfucker dolphin quarterback play There's no reason they let it should be on they let him come back and play they don't give a fuck And these players and not only do they let him come back and play though They don't even tell him you're gonna wear the pillow. They don't even tell him that I'm They don't even tell him you're gonna wear the pillow. They don't even tell him that. This fucking league is the most dishonest pile

of scumbag billionaire cocksuckers that's ever existed. They can all go fuck themselves. If you're gonna care, you've gotta force care. And unfortunately, some of these guys think that that force care is coddling and we're men and that whole, there's that too. You got this fucking masculinity that's just so fucking stupid. You gotta be a tough guy. It's like, come on man.

Yeah. Meanwhile, it's the most latently homosexual atmosphere that's ever existed outside of a fucking- You're coming down each other's throats. Outside of a ship that's been at sea for six months. This is crazy. Every week they tell you you're coming down each other's throats. Just put the pillow helmet on, put it on. It doesn't matter. You got jizz on your chin.

Anyway, just fucking do it. So they should have one designated carer per team. I think some of the one person who's like, they really care. And they come out and they go, no, Everson, I really care about him. And it's really sad. And then the coach goes, we signed this guy off the waiver wire. We're going to play the four three this week.

I don't know. Talk to me after the season. I'm real busy. I work 20 hours a day. Do you understand that? I don't have time to care about this guy. I work 20 hours a day. And if he doesn't perform, I lose my job.

Yeah. I don't have time for this shit. Talk to Charlene, our designated care and then she comes in and goes, oh, it's so sad and that's how it works. I don't give a fuck if he's got a concussion. If I don't work here, they're going to shit me off to fucking coach somebody in Tampa and I don't want to be in Tampa. I don't want to coach the Bengals defensive lineman. Do you understand that? I don't. I just in Tampa. I don't want to coach the Bengals defensive lineman. Do you understand that?

I don't, I just don't. I don't want to do it. The defense sucks through a dick straw. I don't want to be there. I don't want to be the Bill's tight end coach. Please don't make me do it. Can't have it. Yeah. So, uh, the, uh, another Dalvin cook there player said, we're just trying to make sure he's okay. That's our brother first, make sure his family's okay Make sure he gets proper treatment and the love he needs to get through the times. He's going through right now The Vikings place him on the reserve non football illness list

Which is the yeah, not didn't get hurt on the field Physically fine, but sure, not mentally here. So they all say every quote from every member of the Vikings is this is our family. Our family is our family. That's why your mental health is always important. Check on your loved ones, you know, all that stuff, which is all good stuff. But again, coming from football, it's just very, very shallow. It's very empty, man. So December 1st, or December 4th, 2021,

now he says, I will be an advocate for mental health and reveals that he has bipolar disorder, which is, he was trying to, his agent probably, was trying to hide it because Alonzo Spellman, Brandon Marshall, both of their careers never really recovered from that. Belcher probably had something happening, right? He had to. Either that or he had brain issues too. He might have been...

Deep demons. It could be anything. Yeah. And that's the other thing when you add in getting hit in the head all the time into this mess. And being upfront like that due to the collisions that he is making. Oh yeah. Are crazy. A lot of times offensive lineman's first move is to try to headbutt you too. So that's another part of it. So they placed him on reserve and now he said that he'll be an advocate.

He said, I've been running from it a long time. I'm not ashamed of it anymore. It all started when my mother passed away. It went into a dark place. I thought I was great for many years. I promise this time I will do everything the experts say. I love my family and miss my friends. Thank you for all the love and support, but most of all, thank you for your prayers."

Sure. Yeah. He's been having issues, so he's going to do this now. Well, it's nice that he's finally... You can't hide an issue like that and try to, I can understand why you'd want to, but either way, he's done with football after 2021, plays in six games, has five sacks. So his whole career, he never made it to the 100 sack mark. 85 and a half sacks for him in 170 games. Definitely nothing to sneeze at.

Great career. You made $100 million, man. Well, probably not. 85 sacks in 170 games do that averages you know sack every other game Yeah, it's pretty goddamn good. Not bad at all total career earnings. They actually made 63 million twenty seven thousand two hundred thirty one dollars Not too shabby here July 23rd 2023 he is arrested on suspicion of impaired driving in Chanhassen.

I think that's a Minnesota up there. It's booked into jail at 1241 PM. It's a little early for trunk driving. No. Holy shit. Well, I mean, up there, that means he got pulled over at 1030 for Christ's sake. That is you're a Bloody Mary. They give you a Almost a half a beer to go with it every that's Wisconsin. That's not, Minnesota. Minnesota does it too

At 10 in the morning they do this and then you drive the motherfuckers. They drink so heavy Wow, I knew that but I don't think you're supposed to fucking drive. You shouldn't be driving Wow, I knew that but I don't think you're supposed to fucking drive. You shouldn't be driving now. So that is not good here I would say. He's having some problems here. He was arrested. That is the 23rd of January or July 2023. October 28th 2023.

He's arrested again and charged with failure to drive with due care after crashing into a fence and a gazebo No booze No, he just must be because he did the deer last time. I think he's just a shitty driver I don't think he's good at that. He might just see things He may be that's the other thing either that or rather than pouring over nfl film he should be pouring over driving lessons and just like maps and footage of himself here. December 7th, 2023, he stopped by police for drug going 55 and a 30. And he's convicted of that as well. And he takes a plea deal and all this type of shit he has

to take because it's like all of these other charges he's had are all crammed into one. And we'll see if he can drive again, we'll see here. So he's having a lot of problems and it's obvious. So. Yeah, the drinking and driving, just driving in general. It's a father, man, he's got kids. A plea deal, I mean, what if they're in the car, they're not, but he does a plea deal to avoid his drunk and driving charge.

He strikes a deal that allows him to avoid the charge. So he's had quite a few. He's got to pay $1,090 in fines and plead guilty to misdemeanor careless driving. Wow. Okay. They dismissed the remaining drunk driving and speeding charges. And he said in court, I operated my motor vehicle carelessly. Specifically, I drove at a high rate of speed while weaving in and out of traffic after consuming alcohol.

Yeah, I believe my driving conduct thus endangered myself and others. His blood alcohol level, by the way, was.09. Very casual. 15 years ago isn't even a DUI. No. You know what I mean? They dropped it to.8 everywhere, but it used to be.08. It used to be.10 everywhere. I mean, look, I'm not, dropped it to 0.8 everywhere, but it used to be a point away. It used to be point one. Oh, and that's I mean

If you're a drinker, yeah, I'm just saying if you're a drinker 0.09 doesn't seem that much to you. Probably if you're a jury four beers, I've driven that way And I'm proud of it, but it's certainly good. I'm probably over. I probably was over that I don't do it now and It's yeah, or two. it's far too serious now. I mean, it was just a serious then. But yeah, but that's the other part, is that the necessity of it, it doesn't exist. There's no reason to drive now.

No, back then, we were talking about times when you're 24 years old, when also you couldn't afford to get a ride home. That's the other thing. It was like, well, the only way I'm getting home is with my car. It's the only way I can afford to get a ride home. That's the other thing. It's like, well, the only way I'm getting home is with my car. It's the only way I can afford to get home. Yeah, I don't have $35 for a cab to go fucking three miles.

Dude, I drove from fucking Fountain Hills to Phoenix. It was $138. Oh yeah, well that's also like 40 miles too. It's a long fucking way. It's a long way. It's a crazy amount of money. I was like, how do you sleep at night? All the way down Shea?

Grace, I'd have charged you more than that. Fuck that. It's a long way. Much cheaper than a DUI still. Still, absolutely. So he's doing all that stuff. May 30th, 2024, he's arrested again. Oh no.

On suspicion of DU or DWI and Cocaine there we go This has probably been a part of this I would imagine I don't think bipolar people are supposed to drink and do coke although hasn't this is a severe escalation Yeah, although if you would think of bipolar in terms of substances they would be Cocaine and booze so I think maybe he think maybe he's trying to balance himself out here. He's arrested though. Has he not learned what happens to big people with their hearts when they, you know what I mean?

Your mom dropped dead from- It explodes. Yeah, from bad heart. You're just pouring in the wound, man. He's observed driving at a high rate of speed at Bentley Bentayaga something. Oh, in a Bentley. And I don't even, this is how much I know little shit about Bentley's.

I didn't even know that was a Bentley model. I thought that was a person or a road. I thought it was Bentley Bentayaga, B-E-N-T-A-Y-G-A. Bentayga? Bentayga, yeah. A Bentley Bentayga. I thought that was a road in Minnesota. I had no idea. At Bentley and Bentayga? Wow. Yeah,ayga, I thought that was a road in Minnesota. I had no idea.

Bentley and Bentayga. Wow, yeah, that's what I thought it was. Going southbound on I-35 West on, that's confusing, going southbound on I-35 West. At 50th Street, Minneapolis at 1135 PM, he was stopped and showed signs of impairment, leading to his arrest. While the officer arrived at the car window, they noticed two individuals in the vehicle and the smell of impairment leading to his arrest. While the officer arrived at the car window, they noticed two individuals in the vehicle and the smell of alcohol.

The driver is Everson Griffin. The officer said that he had slightly watery eyes. During a search of the vehicle, they found a vial having.02 grams of cocaine, but you got a little bit of coke to fucking do that night. That's all. He's arrested, sent to jail. Char charges of driving under the influence, fifth degree drug possession.

So little it's fifth degree and careless driving. But it's the second time in a year he's been suspected or he's been arrested on a DWI or DUI charge. Not great. He wrote for that that, you know, we heard what he wrote. He admitted to all that kind of thing and now he's doing it again, which probably isn't great. He opens up on social media following this arrest, and yeah, for the first time he says

he's doing well and seeking help, is what he says. He posted on Twitter, and he said that he, everybody was wishing him well, he said he's doing well, he made a poor decision, he's seeking help, and he needs that he, everybody was wishing him well. He said he's doing well, he made a poor decision, he's seeking help and he needs to learn from his mistakes. I wanna know who the other person was, was it a chick? I would just hope it wasn't a kid. Well, I don't think it was,

because that would have been another charge. Right, great point. So I was wondering, I'm thinking if that's a chick that wasn't his wife and he's like, I got more problems, you don't even know. I don't wanna deal with you, I got shit at home that's legal, mental, she's yelling at me I got all sorts of fucking problems here. He said that he's

doing well he made a poor decision and then he made a very impulsive decision and that in a similar situation he would use uber in the future. Good. Probably smart. Yeah. He said if in life you try different outlets to hide from reality I kind of been I I've been kind of a knucklehead it all results from unhealed trauma I will get back with my therapist he said in the post So we don't know what his net worth is because they have his net worth You know, they said he made 57 million dollars. Well, who the fuck knows what he's got left or what he's paid in taxes Yeah They said he made 57 million dollars. Well, who the fuck knows what he's got left or what he's paid in taxes or yeah

Whatever can't get enough of Everson Griffin here. You you can get he'll be back. Don't you worry? You can also get the 2010 playoff contenders playoff Everson Griffin rookie card for four dollars and 99 cents It's pretty cool looking card on eBay there. And you can also get the 2020 Mosaic Everson Griffin Scripps Prism Autographed Gold SPPSA100. It's autographed by him that comes on the card like already autographed out of the pack. 200 bucks are best offer for that though. It's an actual autograph though on the card. Yeah. That's cool. Those are the ones they pull out of packs with these are a big deal there.

And then the 2010 playoff prestige extra points red 100 Everson Griffin rookie card as well. It shows him in his fucking uh in his oh shit it shows him in his USC outfit USC uniform with the eye tape under his eyes with six to three written on there Which is the area code for Avondale? Which is fucking hilarious Six to three bitches so there you go everybody that is Everson Griffin and a guy that somehow Through not only playing and being a goddamn pro bowler Through not only playing and being a goddamn pro bowler

For half of the last decade also constantly getting arrested and having standoffs with police and no Surtlessly trying to break into people's houses. I had never fucking heard of this guy. So now wow that is so fucked up and weird So anyway, I'm a B having We know about him his driveway and this shit. This is a standoff. Pulling Terrell Owens. Jesus. Yeah. He's having full on standoffs. So if you like the show, tell the world about it.

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Who cares? Yeah, that's what I love, letters, Chinese letters. What is that, a Chinese H? I don't know what that is. These are all English characters, right? Nicholas Tilly, that's a whole bunch of Jacob Heater, I said that. Morgan Yes, I don't think that's right. I think they just auto-corrected. Morgan No. I think it just auto-corrected her name. I'm sorry.

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That was so not on purpose and you did not even notice you said that, which is hilarious. William Quimby, Andrea Nunley, Erica J. Reimer's Ghost, Akuma EX, Hope Luther, Misty Belcher, John Alstott, Taylor would know last name, Alicia Summers, Katie Kapler, Dee Pacheco, Zach Leopold, Wade Fleishacher, Emily Gerrish, Randy Glissman, Lindy Lindsey, Lindsey Behan, oh like the sheriff of fucking Tombstone. Sheriff of Tombstone.

Ashley Brady, Noah Jackson, Alicia DiBattista. Was he sheriff? He was sheriff, wasn't he? And president of the anti-Chinese party. The anti-Chinese league. Yeah, nonpartisan. Nonpartisan, anti-Chinese league. We all hate him.

Ashley Brady, Noah Jackson, Alicia DiBattista. Not us, people in Timbs, though. They all hate him, because they're nonpartisan. Pasha Stinson, Blake wouldn't know last name. Matt Locke, is that right? Matt Locke, your parents named you Matt when Matt Locke exists? That's crazy.

Kerry wouldn't know last name. Michelle Hubbard. Kushal Kesta. Kush, he's terrific, he's a big Ravens fan. Great guy, him and his dad, I love them both. Amanda Coaster, maybe Keaster. Brandi Wilson, Liam Parker, Tevin Johnson, Marina Lindland, Lindland.

Sherri Combs, Declan Swans, Mark Jones, I don't know what that is. Samantha Redmond. Redmond. Elvis Costello's real name? Possibly, is that Declan Swans? I think Declan's, I don't know his last name. I thought that was his real first name. Hunter Pogue, Allison Rodenberg, Lynn Weir, Robin Grenz, Adam Mead, Erica Labarrier. What?

Labarrier? Yeah. Don't look at me. All of those. Holly with no last name, Patricia Troutman, Daniel Toner, Ryan with no last name, Isaac Allen, Lee Buckner, Kevin Lowe, and the rest of the guys. I think that's his real first name. Don't look at me. Holly with no last name, Patricia Troutman, Daniel Toner, Ryan with no last name, Isaac Allen, Lee Buckner, Carolyn Doughton, Doughton maybe, Kira Schwartz, Kevin McCarthy, fucking

wow, Jimmy with no last name, Benjamin with no last name, Derp Callie, Mertens, Allison Legger, JR Okuna, Megan Mast, Jay Hutchins, terrific. Holly, nope, that's Molly. Molly Miller, Leslie Camargo, Logan Pawoski. Lena. Something Polish. Something Polish. I've been watching a lot of Family Guy.

Something Polish, that's Night Shift. I've been watching a lot of Family Guy, and he is just, god damn if that show is not one of the best things that's ever been created. It is so good and I'd sit and write all this shit and watch the show at the same time, not really watching, just writing, and then I hear something and I just have to stop for a while

because it's just amazing. Because it's fucking ridiculous. It's so good. Lena Patricia, Ryan Quick, Tracy Adkin, Adolf what? Oliver Tit? I hope not. Lauren. Yeah, Oliver Tit.

Where are you? Adolf. Oh, Adolf Oliver Tit. All right. You're a real dickhead for that one. Really. Something. I'm not proud of you.

No, no. You shouldn't'm not proud of you. No. No. You shouldn't be proud either, sir. Or ma'am. We don't know. It's a man. You know that to sir. That was the joke.

Yeah, obviously. He's a real dick. Lauren with no last name, Isabeau Blue, Heather Hachor, Hayden Young, Jenny with no last name, Lori with no last name, B Doe, Daryl Russel, Mary Morgan, Holly Heldreth, Rosie Parkour, Austin Hurley, Tony Yates, Colleen Shirley, Michelle Suwala, Becca Otto, Blackice23, Christopher Barker, Daisy Machado, Dan M,

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