Colin Cowherd needlessly slams the late Dwayne Haskins
A lot of sports radio hosts have a serious lack of respect as well as a serious lack of knowledge when it comes to the topics they cover. Colin Cowherd showed that in a big way on Tuesday when had a segment about quarterbacks that can't win the Super Bowl. He has a whole list […]
A lot of sports radio hosts have a serious lack of respect as well as a serious lack of knowledge when it comes to the topics they cover. Colin Cowherd showed that in a big way on Tuesday when had a segment about quarterbacks that can't win the Super Bowl. He has a whole list of guys since 2013.
There's nothing wrong with that topic by the way. You can have all the opinions that you want on any player in the league. The problem is that list included Dwayne Haskins and Cowherd mentioned Dwayne Haskins' name. The problem here is obvious. Haskins tragically died in April of 2022.
How Cowherd could have forgotten that is absolutely insane to the point where you have to wonder if he was just trying to make a joke and didn't think it through. I don't think that's what he was trying to do, but it is very odd that he would mention Haskins over a year after he passed. Like, how could you forget that very public tragedy
The weird thing about it all is that Cowherd actually covered Haskins death on his show in April of 2022. That was a year ago. I get the idea that there's a lot to cover in this business and things can go by the wayside at times, but the death of a player, and the horrible way it happened, is pretty hard to forget.
Really it's just a bad look for Cowherd and it's a bad look for his team. You can take shots at guys all you want. I don't personally agree with it. I've talked to way too many current and former athletes to know that these guys are human and despite this whole idea that it's a business and you have to ignore all that stuff, you just can't. This stuff messes with your mental health and it's just not cool.
Even Johnny Manziel is another name. Last week he told the world about his plans to kill himself on Netflix's Untold show and here's Cowherd reminding him of his biggest failure days later.
At some point you just have to let things go. There's a million ways to say you don't think a guy can get it done without dunking on him for an entire decade about it. We've seen what happens to a lot of those guys after the game.
Haskins is a whole other level though. There's just no reason to even include him on this list anymore. There's no reason to tarnish him after he's passed away.
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