I don't care much for O'Neil. I think he's kind of an idiot, and I think he's dragging down Brock's radio show. I even disagree with much of his take in this article. The part I agree with is that several reporters are being selfish,entitled dicks about all of this, with no consideration whatsoever for Lynch's feelings or personality quirks. Where I disagree is that these Lynch interviews are great. They aren't. They suck. It's actually painful to watch Lynch up there because I know Lynch isn't having any fun. If he's not having any fun, I don't really understand why we should be having fun watching him. "Torture" is way too strong a word, but I feel it's on that side of the spectrum.
I actually almost never have a problem with talking heads or radio guys, even though I think most of them are just of average intelligence. O'neil is a nice, hell, gregarious guy, but I just hate how he turns every topic into a brainless media talking point. Just lately, he said that Brady was clearly better than Manning because of the rings. My jaw dropped, but really he says stupid shit like that at least once every show so I really shouldn't even be surprised anymore. Honestly, there's dumb and then there's "angry button" dumb. And I don't know if I've heard anyone else on local radio that's ever pushed that angry button more for me.
I know Mike Sando is kind of bland, but man, if they could replace O'Neil for Sando the show would be 100 times smarter.