Mitchell, who played in Washington during his career, went on a nearly four-minute rant during his show on Comcast Sports Net Mid-Atlantic about Griffin’s recent comments. In case you missed it, RGIII made headlines when he said he feels he’s the “best quarterback in the NFL.” He later said he was upset with the way the media handled his quotes, saying, “It’s unfortunate that my name keeps getting used for headlines and for people to click on stories.”

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The latter story is what got Mitchell flustered. He basically told Griffin that if he doesn’t want his name used in headlines, then he should stop saying things he knows will put him in them.

The bulk of Mitchell’s rant:

“He thinks everything is a damn joke. It comes a point in time where someone is going to have to stand up and tell him what he needs to hear, not what he wants to hear. This young man seems to be a guy, in my eyes, that he loves people around him that says what he wants to hear, coddles him, doesn’t challenge him. And people that do, he always wants to come back (and say) they’re backstabbing, this that and the other. It’s not about backstabbing. Backstabbing is people that are so tight to you, then they do something wrong. We’re not tight with you. We do jobs . . .

“I don’t care what they keep trying to present. We don’t wake up in the morning looking for him. And, dude, you’re not that damn important where you think we need your name to go out there and get people to click on stories. There’s enough stupidity going on around here. We can pull anybody around the league and do something to get stories. But you’re not that damn important.

“What’s going to make you important — and I want everybody over there in your little PR department (to listen); I will talk to you in your face this way — you need to shut the hell up and start playing football. That would make you important. Win football games in this city, and you would have this city at the palm of your hands. You had it, and you’re starting to lose it, because of your talk.

“And there’s a lot of people that were supporting him that are now starting to turn their back because they see a guy who seems to be so full of himself and not doing what he’s supposed to be doing. You came here to be a football player, not a damn philosopher. Not a philosopher. Not a guy that’s always giving us these damn quotes. Who gives a damn? Normally people care about quotes when you are successful. And he has not been successful enough to be giving me a quote.

“I’m 47 years old. What the hell, I’m gonna listen to a little wet-behind-the-ears 24-year-old kid who’s done nothing, nothing, to be sitting up here thinking we’re going to listen to him all day? Do your job. Which he hasn’t done. So don’t sit there as a franchise, as a PR department, and sit up here and act like this kid is so right. He’s wrong. He does a lot of stupid stuff, and it’s about time he hears it, instead of people kissing his tail all the damn time. . . .

“I’ve watched this team. I’m passionate about this team. And I see this one dude who we talk about every day too damn much because he doesn’t know to shut up and perform.”