Bill Simmons slams ESPN over Deflategate coverage

In Bill Simmons’ latest podcast he didn’t hold back when it came to his old employer. In fact, he slammed the network for its coverage of Deflategate.

During his podcast Thursday, Simmons ripped ESPN for its handling of the saga that dominated the headlines over the NFL offseason.

“Granted, I’m a little biased here,” he said. “The way everyone else was covering Roger Goodell in this whole story versus the way ESPN covered it, it was embarrassing. I couldn’t believe nobody called out ESPN about it.”

Simmons then compared the coverage by other journalists to that of the sports giant.

“You have Dan Wetzel at Yahoo, you had Sally Jenkins at the Washington Post, you had all the people in Boston, you had different radio personalities and people really going after how the NFL was handling this, how Goodell was handling this, all this stuff. Especially in the weeks after the broken cell phone thing, when it came out that they had obviously leaked stuff and something really legitimately shady was going on, and yet if you went to ESPN you didn’t see anything…

“It’s hard to come away from that and not think that ESPN is in the bag for the NFL, because they were,” he concluded.

As we previously reported, the 46-year-old was part of those who did not have their contracts renewed by ESPN last May. After he bashed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for a second time though, the network announced that their partnership with him had ended.

Check out our list of top 10 ESPN personalities no longer with the network here.

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