NFL 2023 Off-Season Thread

[JT221]

I heard about that. Thank god he chose not to come to Philly, because it looks like he’s cooked.

We'll see. I like to give a player of that former caliber two seasons to see if in fact they are really done.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

So it's coming out that Bayless is the one who let things go too far. That it's his show and well...Fox Sports empowered him for years.


- When Shannon Sharpe joined Undisputed in 2016 he was just starting out in that format and took a 2nd banana role in a sense. As time passed he became a star as well...and wanted some control.

Sharpe wanted to pick some topics. He wanted to pick some that they'd do. But Bayless was very strict on wanting all the power. He feels it's his show and Sharpe is still at that 2016 situation. So the network let him push Shannon out essentially.


- Jonathan Coachman told a story where years ago he was on 1st Take. Filling in for Stephen A Smith that day. He tells how Skip was next to him and told him..."What are you gonna debate on ? Golf ?" Mocking him before the show. Coachman claims the network has coddled Bayless for years and did here.

[JT221]

So it's coming out that Bayless is the one who let things go too far. That it's his show and well...Fox Sports empowered him for years.


- When Shannon Sharpe joined Undisputed in 2016 he was just starting out in that format and took a 2nd banana role in a sense. As time passed he became a star as well...and wanted some control.

Sharpe wanted to pick some topics. He wanted to pick some that they'd do. But Bayless was very strict on wanting all the power. He feels it's his show and Sharpe is still at that 2016 situation. So the network let him push Shannon out essentially.


- Jonathan Coachman told a story where years ago he was on 1st Take. Filling in for Stephen A Smith that day. He tells how Skip was next to him and told him..."What are you gonna debate on ? Golf ?" Mocking him before the show. Coachman claims the network has coddled Bayless for years and did here.

Isn't Skip Bayless the guy who accused Troy Aikman of being homosexual?

[Deathstroke]

Isn't Skip Bayless the guy who accused Troy Aikman of being homosexual?

The irony being that it is Bayless who is the fucking *******.

[JT221]

The irony being that it is Bayless who is the fucking *******.

He does not seem like someone anyone in the industry really likes. Guess being entertaining supersedes his detriments.

[babyblob]

Isn't Skip Bayless the guy who accused Troy Aikman of being homosexual?

There was also the time he called out Dak Prescott for being weak because he opened up about his mental health struggles. Saying that is something no leader would or should ever do.

[JT221]

There was also the time he called out Dak Prescott for being weak because he opened up about his mental health struggles. Saying that is something no leader would or should ever do.

Well, I would not call Skip Bayless a leader. He seems the epitome of those people who chirp at 'the man in the arena.'

[BeastieRunner]

Well, I would not call Skip Bayless a leader. He seems the epitome of those people who chirp at 'the man in the arena.'

Nobody will remember Skip in 10 years.

[babyblob]

The best part of that show was Sharpe. I wonder how it will do in the ratings with just Skip or if they will find another up and comer he can bully to be on his show.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

The best part of that show was Sharpe. I wonder how it will do in the ratings with just Skip or if they will find another up and comer he can bully to be on his show.

He will get a new co-host is my bet.

Skip can get Kendrick Perkins as co-host since many think he's an idiot.

[godisawesome]

The best part of that show was Sharpe. I wonder how it will do in the ratings with just Skip or if they will find another up and comer he can bully to be on his show.

Sharpe really started by showing he had that sharper (…did not mean for that pun, but oh well) insight into sports talk than Skip did, which wasn’t surprising, since Skip’s whole thing is more being a loud, self-involved shock-jock… but Sharpe also wound up figure out how to turn his considerable charisma, showmanship, and personality into the more refined type a talk show needed, which sort of renders Skip redundant outside of his own following… and Sharpe can clearly grow a larger one hismelf.

[Deathstroke]

He does not seem like someone anyone in the industry really likes. Guess being entertaining supersedes his detriments.

I'd find fault with the notion that he's entertaining. Whenever I've had the misfortune to see him on TV, it was mind-boggling how anyone could think he has anything to offer to anyone.

[Scott Taylor]

Shannon Sharpe was just as annoying as Bayless, in his own way. I honestly don't know why anyone watched the two of them.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Just heard the Vikings cut RB Dalvin Cook. That was surprising.

[Surf]

There was also the time he called out Dak Prescott for being weak because he opened up about his mental health struggles. Saying that is something no leader would or should ever do.

Which was the worst thing Bayless ever went on about, imo. I get it, his whole shtick that has kept him on cable television, even though I would never intentionally listen to him, that particular take seemed mad unnecessarily harsh.

I will miss Shay and the wisdom drops from his Grandma he'd sprinkle in but he'll pop back up. I can only imagine, the levels of restraint, he's show over the run of Undisputed he's put forth in not reaching over that desk and slapping the fire out of Skip. Yea sure he took the 'Goat James' thing a bit too far but any best player on the planet is going to have some shill out there in the space. Which is fine, just took it to far at times. Hell, now that I think about it, I don't even watch many studio pre-game shows since he left CBS.