Sports media is largely a cesspool. Most ex-athletes aren't exactly known for their cognitive reasoning ability, the non ex-athlete "journalists" have examples like Borges, CHB, Tomase, Felger who can put out whatever jibberish they want and never get fired for the quality of the content, and the execs are driven entirely and exclusively by drumming up emotions and getting views or clicks.
However, give credit where credit is due within the cesspool. Irvin may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but he is one of the precious few guys that try to give analysis without grinding an axe. I don't recall ever seeing irvin on TV panning someone or something because of underlying feelings of dislike, envy or anger. Brother, in the yellow journalism, clicks at any cost, grinding the axes down to the nub business of the NFL media it is worth noting someone like Irvin.
