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Friday, July 11, 2008 --- 40 days ago http://deadspin.com/5024231/the-evolution-of-jason-whitlock-writer--unloads-on-f
 Kansas City Star/Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock must have inhaled a larger portion of hater-tots than his usual allotment before he sat down to write this column about NBC's revamped "Football Night In America" lineup . Whitlock, like many other media members, is skeptical of adding Patrick into an already over-crowded mix. "NBC executives must have missed the memo: The Big Show era is dead. ESPN killed it. Every Tom, Dick and Stu Scott wannabe beat the other side of the pillow, cold and Pooh season and en fuego to death," he writes. From there, Whitlock does a person-by-person takedown on every member of the show. The carnage: • Olbermann: "[A]brilliant broadcaster, is a left-wing political pundit. You don't think football when you see Olbermann. You think Bill O'Reilly. Olbermann's work on Football Night comes off like he spends an hour each week thinking about the NFL. His disjointed and confusing commentary last season about Michael Vick exposed how out of place he is talking football on a big stage." • Tiki Barber : "[Q]uit football in his prime because the entire concept of the game utterly bored him, and that's just how he comes across during the brief, off-the-main-set segments he is allowed to speak." • Jerome Bettis: "As a broadcaster, he's not ready for the main stage. He's not Emmitt Smiff, but Jerome hasn't mastered the art of speaking in provocative, insightful sound bites. • Dan Patrick: "He's a clever radio h ... |
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