Joy Taylor, Keyshawn Johnson and Paul Pierce on Speak Photo credit: Speak

Note to Paul Pierce and Keyshawn Johnson, if you ever decide to eat gummies at work, make sure you bring enough to share with the whole show.

To be clear, Johnson and Pierce never said they enjoyed any gummies before going on FS1’s Speak, but Joy Taylor appeared to think they did. Insert awkward transition to Bill Belichick. Earlier this week, Belichick claimed the Pittsburgh Steelers might have “the best” quarterback situation in the NFL. Johnson and Pierce agreed with the claim. Taylor, did not.


“Why are you all doing gummies before the show and not sharing?” Taylor asked Johnson and Pierce after they claimed Belichick’s Steelers quarterback assessment was a fair one. “It’s just very rude. It’s rude. We gotta all participate.”

“So now we’re high?” Johnson asked with a laugh. “Don’t put that out there!”

“It is a solid quarterback situation,” Taylor said of the Steelers before explaining that it definitely isn’t the best. “If your starting quarterback is Patrick Mahomes and your backup is Carson Wentz, you don’t feel like that’s a better situation?” Taylor asked before closing the segment with, “Next time we do gummies, you gotta share.”

It’s too bad Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo recently signed a multiyear contract extension with ESPN. Because there’s no one in sports media who preaches their affinity for gummies more than Russo, which apparently could have made him a good fit alongside Taylor over at FS1.

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Brandon Contes is a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. He previously helped carve the sports vertical for Mediaite and spent more than three years with Barrett Sports Media. Send tips/comments/complaints to bcontes@thecomeback.com