Skip Bayless got rag dolled on Thursday after making comments about Dak Prescott and mental health that just don’t jive with contemporary thinking.

In case you missed it, Prescott recently lost a brother to suicide, and opened up about the combined struggle of that, plus COVID quarantine and isolation, explaining that it took a toll on him mentally. Skip suggested that Prescott showing his vulnerabilities would compromise his ability to lead the Dallas Cowboys as their quarterback, I guess because his teammates would see him as a pussy or something along those lines.

Bayless is on Undisputed this morning, so he wasn’t suspended or anything like that, but FOX put out this statement, shared by Andrew Marchand:

 

At the end of the day, it’s just an opinion, so I don’t think Skip is gonna get cancelled or suspended.

While we’re on the topic, let’s address the idea of “giving attention” to a guy like Skip Bayless. We hear this take all the time – “You’re just giving him what he wants!”

Really? The guy wants everybody on the planet to think he’s an idiot? That’s poppycock! (as Joe Biden would say)

Skip Bayless gets nothing beneficial from everybody calling him an idiot. Fox Sports and Undisputed and Shannon Sharpe gain zero net positive from this. If holding attention and keeping yourself in the news cycle via dumb statements resulted in something tangibly valuable, like higher ratings, Skip’s show would be challenging Dancing With the Stars for #1 in the country.

But it’s not, because people don’t need to watch the show to see what dumb shit he’s going to say next. They see it on Twitter or other platforms, which again, does nothing for Skip. This isn’t like Howard Stern back in 1995, when people would tune in to hear the next crazy thing he’d say on the radio. We didn’t have the internet and smart phones and Twitter back then. Shock jock radio could only be consumed by… listening to the radio. These days, the notion of bullshit artists kicking up the dust and benefiting from it is so much more diluted than it used to be.

OR – maybe there are more idiots out there watching these shows than we realize.