Skip Bayless spent all of his time on the show acting as "devils advocate" where he pumped up guys like Tim Tebow, Robert Griffin III, and Johnny Manziel and would put guys down like Aaron Rodgers and LeBron James down because they weren't underdogs. However, we all know that both Tim Tebow and RG3 were one hit wonders and Johnny Manziel was never good at the professional level. Sometimes Skip Bayless will say something random that ends up coming true from time to time, but usually he is dead wrong and never admits when he is wrong in that situation. Over the last four or five years, Skip Bayless somehow became a Dallas Cowboys fan, which was weird because before that time, he used to highly criticize both the Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo. Not to mention, Skip Bayless once tweeted back in 2009 "For the record, I am not a real Cowboys fan. Picked against them on air the last five years. Just like the unity and makeup of this team." With that said, he continues to ride the Dallas Cowboys and claim that he loves "his" Cowboys and continues to defend them to the death.
Recently, Bayless left ESPN2's "First Take" to join Hall of Fame Tight End, Shannon Sharpe on the same kind of show on Fox Sports called "Undisputed" where Bayless plays the same character that he did on "First Take". My theory is that Skip Bayless is put on these shows in order to give the two people something to talk about and he is very successful at doing what he does. Skip says something highly controversial and sometimes untrue, people call him out before the fact and then the show gets more ratings because people want to see just what this crazy guy has to say next. When he is right about what he says, he gloats about it, when he is wrong, he acts like he never said it in the first place. At the end of the say, you can fact check Skip Bayless, but he will likely never change the way he acts on TV.
So on Monday moring, Skip Bayless went on "Undisputed" with Shannon Sharpe and the topic was the reaction to the Green Bay Packers beating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday in the NFC Divisional Game. This is going to be a written response to Skip Bayless, who basically sits on National Television, bleeding from the you know what, area. Instead of sitting there and being a man and admitting that he was wrong about the game, he uses the time to blame god and the referees for why the Dallas Cowboys came up short against the Green Bay Packers. He also claims that Aaron Rodgers is not that great and that Dak Prescott outplayed the future hall of famer when all was said and done.
Let me start off by talking about him blaming god for why the Cowboys lost the game. Apparently, the last time the Cowboys won the Super Bowl, Jerry Jones prayed to god and told him that allowing the Cowboys to win the Super Bowl would be the last thing that god ever needed to do for the Cowboys. Which, as crazy as that sounds, Skip inadvertently blames god for the fact that the Dallas Cowboys lost the game. He also proves that he doesn't know how ball physics work because he implies that the hand of god allowed the ball to push left and right into the uprights for Mason Crosby in the last ninety seconds of the football game. Skip obviously has never watched David Beckham or any soccer game in general because if he did, he would know that it is possible to bend a soccer ball and thus, kickers in the NFL are able to do the same by curving it. Skip looks like a complete moron trying to explain this, trying to compare it to golf, but he fails miserably because golf uses a metal club, a different type of swinging motion, the upper body and a small, white ball. He cannot be idiotic enough to claim that these two things are the same.
The second thing that Skip does is claim that the officials ruined the Cowboys chance at winning the game. Let me just say that I did something this year that I have never done in my life and that is blame the referees for losses this season, twice. The referees were so bad this year that I expected my team to get screwed each week because of it. Let me just say that the Cowboys got away with a lot of holding penalties and pass interference penalties all season. Now this doesn't mean the Cowboys had a few bad calls and even worse no calls, but it is obvious that this is apart of the game. The worst of them was the fact that Jason Witten got tackled at the goal line and that should have been called as a pass interference and one of the Packers offensive linemen should have had holding called on them on the play that set up the Packers game winning field goal, but wasn't. However, the Cowboys did get away with a few pass interference penalties against Davante Adams, but that was left uncalled. Not to mention that final pass interference penalty, the receiver was grabbed while the ball was in the air and there was a chance that he could have caught up to it if he wasn't grabbed.
Actually, Skips biggest gripe seemed to be the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Brice Butler in the first quarter that forced the Cowboys to lose 15 yards. Skip, I know you are blind, but Butler entered the "makeshift" huddle and left the "makeshift" huddle. It doesn't matter if it is a sketchy rule or that it was called in a ticky tacky way, the point is that the Cowboys were caught doing it and they were penalized. I know you are pretending to be a Cowboys fan, it is cute and all, but just give it up because it happened. Not to mention you tried to play the "Aaron Rodgers is nothing but a trickster, that is the only way he could beat the Cowboys, he could never play fair and win, boo hoo!" The fact of the matter is that, this is what football is you dumb dolt! How many times have your so called Cowboys "tricked" opponents, I can name many times. Aaron Rodgers caught the Cowboys off balanced and he profited off of it because the Cowboys were not ready.
I want to finally bash Skip Bayless for claiming that Aaron Rodgers needed Mason Crosby to bail him out and Dak Prescott outplayed Rodgers. Let me just say that football is a sport that goes on for sixty minutes. It doesn't really matter who outplayed who, right? The only thing that matters is that the Packers won this game after being up 21-3 right before the end of the first half and while the Dallas Cowboys were valiant in their comeback afterwards, they still lost. Whether the Packers go to the Super Bowl or not, nobody will remember what the Cowboys did in this game. The fact of the matter is that they were one of the most explosive offenses in the league, they had a lot of talented players, but they got schooled in the first half against one of the worst defensive backfields in the National Football League. One that was injured just about all season and was bad against both the pass and the run, so of course the Cowboys were able to come back.
Now on a final note to Fox Sports. How dare you use someone to make a mockery of football like this. What I think is funny is that if the game went the other way and Skip's "Cowboys" had beaten the Packers and lets just say the referees called a one sided game for the Cowboys, Skip would not say a single thing about how bad the referees are because he is a biased person. Skip would just go on about how good Dak Prescott is and how much of a loser that Aaron Rodgers is and not let any of us forget it. I actually commend Shannon Sharpe for sitting there, acting cool as could be, because I would be attacking all of Skip Bayless' baseless arguments. I think that Troy Aikman said it best when Bayless was hired by Fox Sports, "I believe success is achieved by acquiring and developing talented, and credible individuals, none of which applies to Skip Bayless." Yes he is eccentric, yes he says random things, yes he has charisma, but no, he knows nothing about sports and nobody should be sitting there acting as subjective as he does.
