John Middlecoff

The hot dogs are awful.

The cheeseburgers.

And you don't take that into account.

Like that's on you.

But if the Denver Broncos lose a game, and someone on Twitter is calling Sean Payton a terrible coach and he's awful play calls on third down, do you think that person knows more football than Sean Payton?

Now, I think we can nitpick and argue over the draft stuff, but it's like, who knows?

So I...

I don't think most people worth their salt spend that much time worrying about it, especially in 2026.

Like maybe 15 years ago, it felt a little bit bigger.

Maybe 10 years ago, it couldn't be any less relevant now.

And if you can't turn off your phone and just do what you think is right, then that's on you and you're going to fail.

Now, if you are specifically like, I think what hurts the media situation is people that talk for a living become friends with these people.

I think Adam Schefter or Rap Sheet or McAfee or myself do a podcast.

I consider people friends or definitely people that I will text.

And if you're just out talking shit about them and then texting them about information, I could see the guy being like, what you said is just completely wrong.

So to me, there's a fine line between quote-unquote fans and what media people are saying.

Especially if I'm giving you information, then you go and badmouth me or say the wrong thing.

I can understand getting mad.

I think that happens a lot.

But the fan thing, I think at this point in time probably happens less and less with people that are secure.