How was this for a trade idea
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If that's real, it tops anything ever said on this board by a considerable magnitude.
Allegedly he said that on his show.
Colin may be the Shedeur of sportscasters, OVERRATED
I doubt it. These guys are given their talking points by producers and whatever comes out of their mouth, so be it.
Cowherd is smart and he’s a smooth talker. But yeah, people put too much credence into what they say. They sometimes make good points and articulate them well, but they are paid to talk and entertain…and not to be looked at as experts.
No
They are only paid to titilate
Smart isn’t a word I’d use for any of these carnival barkers .
Pablo torre and Mina Kimes are smart AND actually know sports
Cowherd , Steven a , and the rest of the noisey hot take guys aren’t .
Yeah, the fact we're talking about something this ridiculous is all the evidence you need.
I think some of these guys genuinely are just that bad with their takes, then they do the clickbait thing with other takes just to act like that's their whole shtick. But it wouldn't surprise me one iota if he sincerely meant this. A lot of these guys' sports knowledge is that awful.
Most of these guys are just loud turds and ESPN and FSN have become versions of "The View" for sports bros.
I think Filliponi kind of ran with that angle out of embarrassment after some of his takes turned out to be so bad.
Peak should be next. Kamara to the NFL. Delalic to the NBA. Etc. Might as well go WWF mode on it now and just predict absurdities all the time.
It’s like ESPN never understood why PTI works well is they are both veteran sports writers who really love sports .
Their opinions can actually be shared with humor and insight .
As someone who found the old Mcafee podcast stories hilarious occasionally -
The fact he is now the face of espn says about it all with how hard it’s fallen
I was thinking more of the PSN guys and prior to his mental breakdown, Dokish.
Honestly , i have never listened to the rest of these jokers on the talk radio shows.
There is nothing to learn from them - all their takes are repeating Twitter
I remember when Lebron was thinking about leaving Cleveland and Cowherd was all over it saying he belongs in Miami or NY or LA not in Cleveland. And seeing him with Sanders, ESPN has become nothing but star ****ers. They just want the biggest names and think force feeding it to the audience is what the audience wants.
There are a bunch of teams that need QBs, but the Steelers are the only one that is getting this type of attention right now. I completely understand why and as big of a disaster that it looks like on the surface, the fact that they new regime hasn't overinvested for a bad QB is smart. It's better to find the right guy than overpay the wrong one.
True. Other than games, I rarely watch ESPN programming and I listen to podcasts and Mad Dog Radio before I'll listen to ESPN radio.
Remember ESPN the Magazine? Does it still exist? Basically it was Tiger Beat for sports fans. Mostly New York and LA sports fans.
There was a terrific piece on Mario Lemieux , though about his coming out of retirement-
I remember the line about he seemed to have a Faustian bargain with the mlrr
Talent he had the more unhappy he was about the state of hockey (during the clutch and grab era ).
Can you imagine the even crazier numbers he’d have put up in this era ?
Look at that list I had in the other thread. Gammons, Vitale, Babcock, Corso....all of those guys loved their games and were either coaches or reporters.
McAfee tells some hilarious stories on occasion and can talk to other athletes in their language to get that engagement. It's rare but it's entertainment. The rest of the time is just cringy because it's not interesting or entertaining. Same with the Kelce's but their schtick isn't trying to be any sort of reporting. It's just folksy podcast stuff. That's a better place for that stuff. I blame all of this on Jim Rome. He started the edgy "sports bro" stuff and it's just proliferated.
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