Dan Le Batard: ESPN won’t let Pat McAfee’s show fail
"It's not something that will fail unless Pat McAfee doesn't want to work there."
"It's not something that will fail unless Pat McAfee doesn't want to work there."
"I don't want their jobs. I wanted to help them become better at their jobs. That's all."
What's up brother?
"I don't mean to demean the guy, but he can't affect the outcome of games."
"This is as close as Stugotz has ever come to leaving here."
"If (Johnson) wants to stop the division, then he shouldn't at all make it seem like he is aligned with the side that is pushing only division."
"God rest his soul, him being gone, there's a void there. How many of the all-time greats are talking about the game? I don't know if there's anybody."
"Pat McAfee and Stephen A. Smith have some sort of unprecedented power in the history of the place to call out an executive by name who runs the place and shortly thereafter, the executive is gone."
"He had everything except the money."
"The news media has learned absolutely nothing from how it covered the last two elections."
"It's some real chicken-s*** behavior from them."
"He's been given such latitude by everybody involved in the sport, it's going to be really curious now if people want to really go at him and get their money's worth."
"I can’t believe I’m about to say this but … I agree with David Samson."
"It's so unaesthetically pleasing."
"He's an embarrassment to an iconic political family ... who all just want us to ignore this guy. This is a joke."
"What's interesting to me, because I don't think he's a particularly interesting person anymore because all of this is pretty predictable, is how people react to him."
"If you're Aaron Rodgers, regardless of the numerous idiotic things that you've said, why would you think you don't have a chance at this?"
"I'm having a hard time thinking of anybody who can leave just about anywhere and actually do damage to a major, mainstream platform."
"Skip Bayless underestimated that he needed Shannon Sharpe for that show to be successful."
"Stephen A. Smith wants to play with Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in the sphere of, 'I'm as big a star in sports right now as there is.'"
The Miami media responded with varying degrees of anger and amusement to Bill Simmons' claim.
Larry Nerd. Steph Blurry.
"I don't have anything bad to say about Pat McAfee."