People make mistakes. It’s nevertheless interesting, at times, to explore how mistakes are made — and how their aftermath is handled.
Colin Cowherd’s show made one of the most egregious mistakes in recent years on Tuesday. Not just Cowherd, who speaks extemporaneously (and for the most part very effectively) for several hours per day, but everyone whose fingerprints are on the audio and visual content.
Cowherd’s particular brand of over-the-top hot-takery, which lends itself to a wide range of contradictions that are brilliantly chronicled by @BackAftaThis on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, lends itself to broad, sweeping proclamations that inevitably are proven wrong by Cowherd’s own future words. And the broad, sweeping proclamation from Tuesday was supposed to be quarterbacks drafted in round one over the past decade who CAN’T win a Super Bowl.
Something got lost in the shuffle. Someone created a graphic that was too expansive, including players who have been retired for years (EJ Manuel, e.g.) and one who is deceased (i.e., Dwayne Haskins).
Making matters worse is that, when Cowherd started reading from among the 20 names on the graphic, he specifically said “Dwayne Haskins.” Cowherd said nothing about the graphic being incorrect.