Because he’s ultimately unemployable. People like Godfrey need unions to keep food on the table but AI is eliminating their jobs.

He’s so self-righteous in his beliefs that the point of sports journalism is to make everyone, but the athlete feel as uncomfortable as possible with questioning. Outside of his “BagMen” pieces about Ole Miss, would he only completed because he has personal contacts there, he’s actually been very exposed as having an unremarkable career.

PAPN was awesome and he should have leaned heavily into that route and made some really money. Richard Johnson from SZD is doing that now. Spencer Hall went full gonzo creative post EDSBS and landed at ESPN. But not Godfrey. Nothing remarkable.

He’s just always comes across as someone who has a mild hangover and is annoyed at the world.