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After a turbulent year in the “Monday Night Football” booth, Booger McFarland has been honing his chops on the ESPN analyst desk during the 2020 NFL season.

With Jason Witten's un-retiring and leaving 'Monday Night Football,' Anthony 'Booger' McFarland, 41, is moving from his role as a sideline analyst to the booth.For a program that has historically. Booger McFarland is in the booth this year for the 'Monday Night Football' broadcast, and he's getting the Jason Witten treatment from fans at home. NFL 2021 NFL Mock Draft.

Amid a roundtable discussion about Dwayne Haskins on “Monday Night Countdown,” McFarland delivered a take that, well — let’s just say it will garner some attention.

The Washington Football team released Haskins on Monday, a shocking decision considering it used a first-round draft pick on the Ohio State quarterback just last year. But when adding up Haskins’ performance on the field, his off-field COVID-19 protocol transgressions and the fact that Ron Rivera, in his first year in Washington, had nothing to do with drafting him, the move becomes a little less stunning.

While speaking with Randy Moss, Suzy Kolber and Adam Schefter, McFarland addressed Haskins’ issues and painted them as part of what he sees as a larger problem among NFL players.

Here’s what he had to say:

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‘Especially young African American players ...’

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“Often times young players, especially — I’m gonna go ahead — especially young African-American players, because they make up 70 percent of this league — they come into this league and ask themselves the wrong thing,” McFarland said. “They come into the league saying not ‘how can I be a better player?’ They don’t say ‘how can I be a better teammate?’ They don’t say ‘how can I be a better person; how can get my organization over the hump?’

“Here’s what they come in saying. They come in saying ‘how can I build my brand better? How can I build my social media following better? How can I work out on Instagram and show everybody that I’m ready to go, but when I get to the game, I don’t perform?”

McFarland compares Haskins to JaMarcus Russell

McFarland’s take is not wholly unique. He recited commentary repeatedly levied by critics who take issue with members of the Millennial and Gen Z generations who don’t know a world without the internet or social media.

But he put his own spin on those broad-brush tropes on Monday and applied them to the very specific group that is the Black NFL player. He continued, calling Haskins out by name and holding him up alongside notable NFL bust, former Oakland Raiders No. 1 pick JaMarcus Russell.

“Dwayne Haskins unfortunately is not the first case that I’ve seen like this,” McFarland continued. “And it won’t be the last. And it bothers me because a lot of it is the young African-American player. They come in and they don’t take this as a business. It is still a game to them. ...

“I saw a quarterback do it. I saw JaMarcus Russell do it. The No. 1 pick in the draft, they gave him $40 million, and he threw it down the damn drain because he didn’t take it seriously.”

© Provided by Yahoo! Sports Booger McFarland held Dwayne Haskins up against another notable quarterback bust, JaMarcus Russell. (Jordon Kelly/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Names that didn’t come up in his rant include Johnny Manziel, Ryan Leaf, Paxton Lynch and Jake Locker —other notable quarterback busts who obviously don’t meet his stated criteria for criticism on Monday.

The media game is a lot about gaining attention for what you write or say. Hot takes abound because they’re good for business. McFarland paused for a moment on Monday, interjecting “I’m gonna go ahead,” before diving in to his fiery take.

And he’s bound to get some attention on Tuesday, whether he likes it or not.

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Booger McFarland is taking his removal from Monday Night Football in stride.

Even though he’s been criticized for some wildly wrong things he’s said on the air, a few takes that fans very much disagreed with and become a much-used meme in the past year, he didn’t focus on the negatives that came his way in his stint that started on the now-defunct Booger Mobile and then ended when he moved into the booth to replace Jason Witten in 2019.

The New York Post’s Andrew Marchand spoke with McFarland, who had this to say when asked about what he’s faced from fans and critics:

“I’ve been in the arena since I was 13, man. As an athlete, the cool part of having dealt with fans for years, you understand that fans are going to love you sometimes and fans are going to hate you sometimes. That is part of it.

“Anytime you are the biggest fish in the pond, you have to deal with a lot of things.” …

“For me, I always try to approach things and I’ve always learned that the best approach is the humble approach,” McFarland said. “That is the way I go about things. Unfortunately, you can’t control what other people say.”

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He also wished he had more time to work out the problems that arose in his first couple of years on the air:

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“I just wish that you have an opportunity to, as we do in football, you make mistakes, you learn from them and you correct them and you move on. That is the one thing that I wish we had an opportunity to do, but we don’t.”