Dan Orlovsky has made a name for himself as a football analyst at ESPN. The former backup quarterback has taken his knowledge of the position and of the game, and turned it into a second career as a subject matter expert on the NFL and specifically the QB position. He also works for an entertainment company, and as some have been known to do to help them gain notoriety, he’s adopted a bash-the-Cowboys-at-most-opportunities approach to analysis, especially on social media.
Orlovsky revels in pretending the Cowboys aren’t good at much of anything, and he plays it up for the many football fans out there who don’t like Dallas or the fan base. As is usually the case with media personalities, the one with the bullhorn normally gets the last word in. However, on this one fateful morning, someone who wasn’t going to stand for his ridiculous slander had a bullhorn, and was much better able to use it to spout facts instead of vitriol. Fellow ESPN analyst Domonique Foxworth smothered Orlovsky with the ether.
In a segment on the talk show Get Up, host Mike Greenberg asked the two analysts to name their top five quarterbacks. When Orlovsky got to No. 5, he chose Philadelphia’s Carson Wentz.
There’s nothing wrong with liking Wentz, but Orlovsky – who appears to be an Eagles fan, always insists on doing a compare/contrast with Prescott. So after naming Wentz in his top five and leaving out Prescott – who dominates Wentz statistically and hasn’t missed any games in his career – Foxworth had enough.
He relayed all of the ways Prescott was better, and it was glorious.
Dak > Wentz pic.twitter.com/aWp7h3UVKq
— Domonique Foxworth (@Foxworth24) May 12, 2020
Does any of the debate truly matter? Not really.
Until Jalen Hurts inevitably takes the reigns from Wentz, the two QBs from the 2016 draft class will remain intertwined in the debate world just as they are within the division. Still, arguing about sports is what makes sports great, and watching Foxworth dismantle Orlovsky’s one-sided and sophomoric arguments with a steady barrage of fact-based reasoning is a beautiful thing to watch for Cowboys fans.
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