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Is It Me Or Has Skip Bayless Stopped The Trolling Over The Years?

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#1 ·
I sometimes watch first take and I noticed that skip actually sometimes makes sense and I noticed he seems to have toned down trolling and he actually thinks about what he says. Have you noticed it as well or do you still think he's paid to troll?
 
#3 ·
Why does he start every topic with "Stephen A. Smith......."?

It's fucking annoying.
 
#10 ·
Well right now there SHOULD be more basketball talk because it is basketball playoff time, so I have no issue with this, not covering the football free agency as much I have no issue with because it is not football season and baseball season is still in the early stages. . However the issue I have with First Take is when Baketball is not in the playoffs and is in the offseason they talk more about than the baseball playoffs which is bullshit.
 
#5 ·
I cant stand him or that jackass steven a smith. Hell the whole network is garbage anymore, might as well just rename it the nba network.
 
#7 ·
He hasn't stopped trolling, his trolling has just become extremely predictable. That show as a whole doesn't even try to hide it's bullshit anymore. I can't even remember the last time they talked about baseball. It's always the same recycled topics...

Cowboys
Patriots
Spurs
Lebron
Tebow
Manziel

With the occasional infuriatingly stupid comment about women by Stephen A Smith thrown in there.
 
#16 ·
Most of ESPN and NFL Network are trolls. It really isn't something unique to First Take.

This is their business model, and it's successful. It's all about getting clicks.

I only watch football but WWE-like story telling and promotion is huge with how ESPN and NFL Network treats the game of football. It's all meant to fan around optimism, get people excited, and create their own story lines.

Tom Brady is the greatest QB of all time.
But Aaron Rodgers is the best QB in the league (bullshit)
However, Peyton Manning is the greatest regular season QB of all time (lmao)
But Andrew Luck is the future best QB in the league.

….Even though Russell Wilson is perhaps the best QB of his draft class.

NFL says all of this shit, and it all at least partially contradicts each other, but it gives the Packers, Broncos, Colts, and Seahawks a narrative to be excited about in the absence of Lombardi trophies.

Two years ago an ESPN analyst (forget which) said Kaepernick was "better than Joe Montana."
The next day ESPN was running segments on what said analyst said, and they were having debate segments on whether or not it was true.

This is ESPN creating its own story lines and television dramas.

It's the result of sports-journalism going 24/7. It's also the result of the NFL's business model to maximize excitement across all fan bases at the expense of honest journalism.

An example is Bucky Brooks latest dumb ass article on NFL.com, where he lists the top ten most talented teams outside the QB position. Every team in the AFC East is on it…. except for the reigning Superbowl Champions.

It gets Bills fans hyped, Jet fans hyped, Dolphin fans hyped.

Then actual football season starts and the AFC comes down to the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots, neither of which are mentioned in ESPN and NFL Networks click-bait hype articles.

They do the same with negative reporting. "TOM BRADY IS NO LONGER A TOP 5 QUARTERBACK!"
It's such a ridiculously stupid premiss, but it makes money, because Patriot haters click it in a state of euphoria, and Patriot fans click it saying "WTF?". It has nothing to do with reality, but it makes the most amount of money.

Deflate Hate is this business model going into overdrive. The laws of physics lower air pressure in a football, and talking heads turn it into the Black Sox scandal of the century, and get more NFL attention during the off season then the NHL does during its freaking playoffs.

Acting like Skip Bayless and Steven A Smith are the only trolls on ESPN is ridiculous, and if you believe that, you don't get it.

The freaking Colts are being called the favorites to win the AFC right now, even though the Patriots always stomp them out by 25 points or more. They'll ride this story to create a buzz around a new team with a young QB right up until the Patriots trample them with 200 rushing yards and a 45-7 blow out, then it'll stop. They'll have made their money on that fake narrative and move on to something else.
 
#17 ·
The thing with first take is that they have kinda run out of things to troll with

it was tebow and lebron being ringless for a bit and skip didn't so much troll as he did overreact with both of them. when lebron won and tebow got let go for peyton they had to move on

nowadays the only things skip really exaggerates anymore is mayweather being overrated, the cowboys, and maybe the odd something else I haven't mentioned. He is a spurs and patriots homer but both of those teams are great so he isn't exaggerating so much as he is giving them the proper credit

if anything SAS is the troll now. his racial spews on brady skipping the white house, chip kelly cutting a few players that were black and basically anything involving race has him looking like the boy who cried wolf. i mean it's a sports show not a political one. him accusing people of choosing to do things based off of racial motives just makes him look like a jackass. I mean the only 2 sports they give a fuck about are football and basketball, two sports dominated by africans, so why cry racism so much?


i watch the show every now and then cause i do like them both and think they are funny together but hockey is my go to sport and they don't give a fuck about it, same with baseball and mma so only some topics pertain to me like nfl.



oh and skip does troll once in a while, this was awesome and hilarious

 
#29 ·
I will say this. When these two actually have a chance to have an actual discussion with no gimmicks or shenanigans, I usually like what I hear. A least from Skip. He still does his shtick but I do actually enjoy his insight. Seems like would be a fun guy to talk sports with.

Stephen A annoys me though. We always hear how smart and articulate he is. But almost all his debates sound like "This brother can score, he's no scrub, we know he can play." For someone so articulate, we usually hear the same thing over and over again.
 
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