It’s happening more and more since he sold to Spotify. I guess it’s part of the deal when you make it big, and are in the spotlight more, but bizarre nonetheless.
Kornheiser explaining to Bill like a decade ago that writing is hard and once you get rich the talking gigs are about the only thing you have the motivation to do anymore especially due to the financial incentive (which has only grown since), while Bill largely didn't believe him AS A WRITER, is very funny in retrospect.
Once he recovers from the catatonic state brought on by reading the WAP lyrics, it'll be fun to see grundle's defense
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Only one I listened to as of late was the Belushi interview and I skipped right to it.
I'd bet most writers are just like Bill in that convo, and that's not counting the other stuff Bill's doing compared to Tony at that time.
I’m not talking about criticicing lazy takes. I’ve done that plenty. I’m talking attacks on his character.
This is an odd take. Mainly bc I haven’t paid attention to the ticker since the advent of smart phones
I look at it if I’m watching a game. I inevitably feel like I miss the same first 3/4 of a piece of info of something that might be interesting to me every pass through the ticker.
I wish he and Barnwell could pod together again, they were so good. He and Clark never had the chemistry.
Well we finally have an answer for why he hasnt been on the Ringer NFL Pod in quite some time. Not surprised, but I still wonder what happened. Likely both he, and the ringer, knew his contract was coming up within the year and there was no plan to renew. I have never had a problem with Clark, I enjoyed them together, but I cant say that I will be listening to the Ringer NFL Pod much moving forward.
I've never understood the Barnwell hype. He's not bad, but people have hyped him up so much as a writer and I've just never understood why.
I find most sports writing to be lots of the same, Lowe is probably the only person out of the Grantland crew that I thought was genuinely good enough to read pretty much everything he does.
he was ahead of his time. I really think his pieces 10 years ago on Grantland were truly unique and I think he was one of the first mainstream writers to write about football in such a smart way. Now I only listen to him when he's on someone else's podcast, but I find him more of your typical NFL writer. The rest of NFL media has just caught up with him I think.
Maybe. I guess I just never got that from reading his stuff. Now I barely see his stuff, and it's usually him doing offseason grades where he gives 80% of the moves a C.
I always enjoyed him, whether or not I agreed, those first few years. Then someone pointed out every time he says a word with the letter t in it, it sounds like a d. "Peydon Manning," "Tennessee Tidans," etc. Could never unhear it. Still don't mind him but I don't listen to him anymore.
this is probably true...I too kind of think he's a little overrated at least nowadays. There are others who can talk about some of the metrics/cap stuff while also just knowing more about on-field play, Mays being one. But football writing and analysis in general is behind basketball. The game is inherently much more complicated and there's so much more to track, so that plays a role as well.
i enjoy slow news day i've largely stopped following the NFL outside of catching a big game here or there and casually following the chiefs though so i'm not a great example
Idk why but the NFL pod never interested me. I watch more NFL than NBA but care more about the NBA details/info/gossip way more.
The last Barnwell article I read on this offseason was comparable to what I would expect the guy in my fantasy league who is going to draft LeVeon Bell in the 2nd rd this year to write.
the "....what does that have to do with hotels in Orlando?" moment was near the top of 2020's best BS Pod moments
Their chemistry has been so off throughout much of the pandemic but especially since the protests started. That was maybe the most awkward moment yet.
Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks have a decent NFL podcast, but the meat is them using their backgrounds as scouts I've listened to like 10 hours over the past couple of months and there aren't really any hot takes, so it's boring in that sense. I guess them rating Trey Lance in the same tier as Trevor Lawrence and Justin Fields might kind of qualify
I liked when Bill said Anthony Davis really stepped it up in the 2nd half He had 7 points in the half and 2 in the 4th quarter