We hate any time this happens<\/a>,\u201d McAfee said, via Brendon Kleen of Awful Announcing. \u201cObviously this is terrible. We don\u2019t like that. But we are very honored that we are still partnered with ESPN and Disney for the good of sport and the future.\u201d<\/p>\nMcAfee nevertheless acknowledged the connection that is being made between ESPN not having the money to keep some employees while having more than enough cash to further break the bank for his weekday show and other assignments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first time we licensed the show through ESPN, one of these happened, we got blamed,\u201d McAfee said. \u201cOK, OK. Thank you. I feel like you don\u2019t fully understand budgets and where things are coming from, but I do appreciate that. This time, we\u2019re getting blamed as well. Which I guess I can understand, but I mean, there\u2019s billions and billions of dollars in these companies, and hard decisions have to get made. And we don\u2019t like any of them, and we hope we\u2019re an asset to the company going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the basic reality at any company in any industry. The money is there for the people they want. For those they don\u2019t, certain opportunities arise (such as, in this case, the acquisition of NFL Network) to purge the ones they used to like but no longer do.<\/p>\n
It happens throughout American business. And it\u2019s driven by management. Currently, McAfee is one of the favorite sons in the eyes of those who have their hands on the wheel. And that\u2019s management\u2019s prerogative.<\/p>\n
The other reality is that management\u2019s prerogative can, and will, change. The only true job security is indispensability. For now, guys like McAfee and Stephen A. Smith have it.<\/p>\n
But the basic truth is that we\u2019re all replaceable. In time, we\u2019ll all be replaced. The only question is whether we walk away by choice, we\u2019re gently nudged, or we get a two-handed shove.<\/p>\n
The only protection against that comes from, to use the technical term, owning your own shit. McAfee owns his daily platform. If\/when the ESPN run ends, he\u2019ll go elsewhere or he\u2019ll take the operation independent, again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN\u2019s clunky rollout of the latest round of layoffs, which included a long list of recognizable names, came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-777819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}