I don’t expect intellectual honesty from national American professional football pundits. Driven primarily by their network’s incessant need to generate traffic at the expense of quality conversation, NFL “analysts” are made up in large part by take artists who offer no substantive benefit to the conversation.
Platforms such as ESPN, Fox Sports, and others have a supply and demand issue: they want to occupy 24 hours a day of takes, but don’t have the roster of thoughtful commentators necessary to fill those 24 hours with differentiating opinions and perspectives while maintaining a semblance of intellectual honesty.