It doesn't matter to me whether Shaun King was or was not a good professional quarterback. That has nothing to do with whether or not that same person is a good NFL analyst.
Some former pro QBs are good analysts, others are not. Some that never played the game are good football analysts, others are not.
Forget Shaun King's opinions for a moment. There are other comments that speak volumes - specifically comments he makes about himself.
1.) He claims that he did not want Pittsburgh to draft Kenny Pickett, with more than one superlative. "I screamed from the rafters", like that makes him a bona fide analyst. Maybe his agent suggested he should be over the top; it gains attention and could lead to a higher paying gig.
The reality was that there were no good QBs in that draft, it was a mid-first round pick - and the alternative for the Steelers would have been to go with Mitch Trubisky as their QB for all of 2021. Would Shaun King have preferred that? No pre-draft analysts were big on Pickett; his not being selected until #17 was not a surprise.
2.) “It took it, what, 17 years in college to have a good season'.
I have looked at this line a half dozen times and I still don't what it means Shaun.
3.) "I don’t mean to rant and ramble"
But that is exactly what you do, and it is exactly what you did in this interview.
4.) "I think NFL teams should hire somebody like me just to be the final say on personnel. I think I have a gift at it — I’ve been right a whole lot"
Any previous credibility you had Shaun, you just lost with that line. It reminds me of Tom Jackson's attempt to prove to the audience that his opinion was beyond reproach when he loudly exclaimed "I know, I used to play the game" during his infamous "they hate their coach" rant.
People who are intelligent or make correct decisions don't need to go telling the world that they are intelligent and make correct decisions. Doing so would be an incorrect decision; it screams of misplaced egotism and arrogance. There's an awful lot of "I this" and "I that" over the course of the interview. "I" think that Shaun King needs to check his ego at the door and take a couple of college level public speech and communication courses before he ruins his career.
5.) Not surprisingly he follows up by backtracking and contradicting himself. Of course he does, just like a two-faced politician. That way next time he can say 'see, I was right' regardless of the outcome, and repeat the whole process.
