Emmanuel Acho gets Pete Carroll wrong, among other things
Pete Carroll's coaching history speaks for itself, but you need to look it up first: Seaside Joe 1410
Is Emmanuel Acho intentionally trying to become the next Skip Bayless or Colin Cowherd?
On Thursday, Acho criticized Pete Carroll on his show (not that I watch it, as like most people who comment on these programs, I’m responding to a minute-long clip that reaches the internet) for saying that the Seahawks having to play the 49ers in the wild card round was “unfortunate” rather than to “lie” and say that Seattles “gets to” play San Francisco. Then about 97% of the people who saw Acho’s clip were able to decipher Carroll’s comments in a way that Acho was unable to understand.
Perhaps this explains why Acho only had 288 career NFL snaps over parts of two seasons.
I’ll give Acho credit, I could have sworn he played 10 years in the NFL based on the way that he and (ESPN? FSN? Seriously, I have no idea) have constantly interjected his takes into the media stratosphere (Only Dan Orlovsky has done a better job of turning a forgettable football career into invading our spaces with cringe takes on a regular basis) over the last few years as if he’s already earned the right to be heard—or lambasted. That must be why the show is called “Speak”. Previously known as “Speak for Yourself” and previously hosted by Jason Whitlock and… hey wouldn’t you know it, Colin Cowherd.
Oh wait, that’s why it’s not called “Speak for Yourself” anymore. Maybe “the network” must have known we wouldn’t associate an Acho/Marcellus Wiley show with a Cowherd and Whitlock program.
But I’ll give Acho even more credit. He owned up to the fact that Pete Carroll’s message flew over his head and gave us a glimpse into the mind of someone who hears one quote and then writes an entire blog post or—does an entire segment of his TV show on that quote—without doing any research. If Carroll’s intention was for the Seahawks to be underestimated, low as the odds were that anybody on the 49ers would fall for it, at least Acho gave us reason to believe that some of them will.
So I will gave Acho credit for at least… Oh damn it, Emmanuel:
Emmanuel Acho is the living emodiment of an internet user who only reads the headline of an article before he leaves a scathing comment reacting to it.