Marcus Hayes is attempting to explain himself for writing this drivel about Doug Pederson and Carson Wentz. How’s that going?

If Howard says it’s not true, it must not be not true:

I KNOW BETTER THAN YOU:

It was my opinion:

OK. Enough. This is all bullshit. Columns are subjective, yes. But hiding behind tone and interpretation for ridiculous claims that bordered on stated fact is a cop-out, one used by someone who realizes they’ve been discovered to be a complete fraud. Marcus is nestling himself in that little safe space, the nook and cranny between fact and opinion, by playing semantics and ignoring the massive elephant in the room: that what he wrote was wildly and carelessly detached from reality or, at best, a grossly incompetent interpretation of an event. Either way, he’s an asshole.

He wants to claim Pederson answered that question any differenly? Fine. Here, go ahead, watch it again. In fact, go watch the full video here. Tell me if you detect ANY change in tone, let alone a sneer.

Marcus’ carefully-worded opinion masquerades as fact. Just look at how quickly this spread:

All this, based on some loose interpretation of a tone that didn’t exist.


I almost wish Hayes would’ve just said something along the lines of “I know this to be the case,” and that his use of Pederson’s response was simply a means to pass along background information. That stuff happens. You can’t cite a source, so you use something else to draw a conclusion you know to be out there. That’s fair. BUT HE DIDN’T DO THAT. He just keeps tweeting that his ostensible familiarity with Doug Pederon’s tone allows him to know better than everybody else in that room.