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"I totally see the other side, where a well-trained eye of a physician might recognize something that might totally make sense. But I just didn't want to be speculating."
"When it comes to Bayless, it is hard to react to the things he says and tweets without the context of history, and his history certainly has not earned him any benefit of the doubt."
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"I think ESPN rightly wanted to own and operate and produce RedZone outright because of the galactic popularity of the show. But the NFL, for their reasons, wanted to retain control of the production of RedZone."