We’ll take struggling NFL “analysts” for $200 Alex: “Since joining ESPN in March, the former Cowboy has zoomed by the competition, passing Skip Bayless, Dan Marino and Stephen A. Smith. Soon, he could overtake Tony Siragusa as the media’s MPP, most painful person to watch/hear.” Zing! “And as an ESPN football analyst, Smith is conspicuously inept. No, to call him inept insults inept people: He’s woefully incompetent. But here’s the important question: What does his presence say about the network that put him there? As one of the analysts on NFL Countdown, Smith babbles, bumbles and stutters while generally insulting the language. He sometimes fumbles his facts and frequently seems unprepared. He can’t even get a cliché right.”

Wonder if the University of Florida is proud.

Smith is rushing to be a telecasting joke (Star-Telegram)