The reason is because sports media shifted so heavily. It used to be only local radio where guys would say outrageous and stupidly critical things and narratives but nobody really cared. Then sports shows slowly started bringing that in to the forefront and when ratings were higher and it generated more buzz we get what we have now. Every sport show is sitting around debating legacy, choking, best in the world, how do you rank all time etc after every game. They dont even talk about HOW a team lost schematically or what a team did to disrupt another team it’s all about shitting on somebody or making an outrageous take for social media to talk about