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The greatest honor of my professional life came in 2020 when Clay called me and asked me to join his revamped OutKick.
We had a three-year plan. Yet here we are six and half years later.
As I told him privately, I can never thank Clay enough for taking a chance on me, giving me the freedom to find my voice, and letting me cover whatever I wanted, from two presidential elections to sports, from culture to Game of Thrones, and everything in between.
Clay is the most supportive person I have ever worked for or with. No one has helped me, or advocated for me more.
As someone who knows most of the biggest hitters in both sports and political media, he might just be the best person of them all. He is that good of a dude.
OutKick is now fully integrated into Fox News, the most dominant media company in America. That's a credit to Clay and what he built from scratch.
I'm going to miss working with him on a daily basis. I hate that part of it. Bit I know his new company is going to be another juggernaut. I can tell you firsthand that all of his new employees will soon be very, very fortunate.
As for me, you can find my stories now on both OutKick and Fox News. I also have some fun things in the works that I will announce soon.
For now, congratulations, Clay. And no, there is nothing wrong with men from the Midwest getting fake tans.
15 years ago I launched @outkick. May 2026 was our biggest month ever, 21 million uniques. Today I’m leaving. Awesome ride. Thanks to all. Final show this afternoon. I’ll be continuing with @clayandbuck, @FoxNews & @FOXSports. Details on new company soon: hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
It's time for @Realrclark25 to move on. He's been crying about his firing and falsely claiming that ESPN leaked the story to OutKick and me for three months.
I've addressed it several times: ESPN didn't leak anything to us. If it did, it wouldn't have rushed to tell Clark in the middle of the show to avoid him finding out on the internet.
We also had four sources between Dan and me.
ESPN fired Ryan Clark because he was a bad teammate, made reckless comments about race, shamed RGIII for marrying a white woman, tried to fight Peter Scrhager off air, made defamatory remarks about Louisiana police, said weird things about Josh Allen, and kept bringing up non-sports topics on air.
Put simply, he was a constant headache and the numbers showed he did not drive viewers. He was far more trouble than he was worth.
I think there must be a significant amount of lost written material about Jesus’ life that predates the canonical Gospels.
Mark is generally dated around the time of the Temple’s destruction in 70. I think Mark 13 supports that dating.
This means Mark was written roughly two decades after Paul’s letters, which contain almost nothing about Jesus’ life.
By the time Mark was written, Christian communities had been expanding for years. It is difficult to imagine that they relied entirely on oral tradition.
The early churches must have had some written materials about Jesus’ life.
Further, the author of Luke begins by saying that “many” people had tried telling accurate accounts about Jesus before him. The author was familiar with Mark, but Mark is not “many.”
Some scholars also argue that Mark had access to an earlier written Passion narrative. I find this compelling.
For one, the style and pacing of Mark’s Gospel appear to change around Jesus’ final days and crucifixion.
The Passion sequence reads as more continuous and developed than many of the loosely connected passages before it in Mark.
At the very least, I think there were written collections of Jesus’ sayings (like Q) that existed before the destruction of the Temple, thus before Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John.
In fact, I would not be surprised if there were Gospels (maybe shorter ones) written before Mark that were lost.
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Caleb Williams looks like the next face of the NFL. He's incredible.
But does celebrating the Dems winning the midterms, supporting BLM, tweeting about #whiteprivilege, and ignoring the US national anthem make him a bad candidate?
My column:
foxnews.com/outkick-sports/c…
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First teaser for the ‘STRANGER THINGS’ prequel series.
“Before Hawkins there was Marion, Nevada.”
Releasing in 2028 on Netflix.
People seem to have forgotten how nasty, extreme and violent the Left are.
The Republicans/Right have issues. But these people are not the answer. They openly hate you.
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I hope you can’t get this written at some point Bobby, I have no doubt the findings will be fascinating.
Yes. This is a story that I’ve been wanting to cover but it’s hard to get people on the record due to sensitives.
The average age of a male professional athlete in 2026 lines up with the age of males most vulnerable to mental illness.
This creates a very challenging dynamic. You have certain players playing through intense pain. And, presumably in at least a few of these cases, players sitting out due to mental illness. Obviously, that can create fiction.
I doubt sports teams know how to handle mental illness because, to be honest, no one does.
I don’t know the answer to any of this, but it’s an important issue that is going to continue to develop.
Most likely, this is a factor for more players than just Josh Simmons and TreVeyon Henderson.
Yes. This is a story that I’ve been wanting to cover but it’s hard to get people on the record due to sensitives.
The average age of a male professional athlete in 2026 lines up with the age of males most vulnerable to mental illness.
This creates a very challenging dynamic. You have certain players playing through intense pain. And, presumably in at least a few of these cases, players sitting out due to mental illness. Obviously, that can create fiction.
I doubt sports teams know how to handle mental illness because, to be honest, no one does.
I don’t know the answer to any of this, but it’s an important issue that is going to continue to develop.
Most likely, this is a factor for more players than just Josh Simmons and TreVeyon Henderson.
Russini’s agent is doing a bad job with these leaks.
I honestly think Russini’s handling of the story—denial, weird leak about the car crash, blame on the media—has made her look worse than the photos.
She needs new people advising her for any chance at a comeback.
Dianna Russini begins to get the word out that she's coming back to sports media "next week." nbcsports.com/nfl/profootbal…
Caleb Williams looks like the next face of the NFL. He's incredible.
But does celebrating the Dems winning the midterms, supporting BLM, tweeting about #whiteprivilege, and ignoring the US national anthem make him a bad candidate?
My column:
foxnews.com/outkick-sports/c…
Unlike nearly everyone else, I’ve been consistent on this topic: athletes should stop dividing fans politically, regardless of their politics. I think Harrison Butker hanging out with Trump is also bad business. I think Wemby shitting on America is bad business. Williams acting this way is too.
The business of sports is based entirely on fan support. Athletes should be able to stop dividing support for the 10-15 years they play. After that, whatever.
Note: there is a difference between divisive political opinions than, say, introducing Trump on stage or hugging Obama at the All Star Game.
I say this as someone who voted for all Republicans on Tuesday.
Remember, the prevailing narrative days after the 2022 Midterms was that MAGA was dead and the Rs needed someone other than Trump in 2024. That proved to be an overreaction. I think four statements are true at once:
1) Tuesday was ugly for Republicans
2) Texas is a major concern
3) Iran was a terrible decision
4) Recent history suggests we shouldn’t take Tuesday as an indication of what’s to come in 2028.
The NFL has always had apolitical faces of the league. Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes the most recent. Caleb Williams will be a departure from that, be it these posts, his anthem antics, fighting with reporters.
You could say Aaron Rodgers, but he was older, no longer a marketing tool when he became polarizing. He was a side character. Williams is in line to be the NFL’s main character for the next decade. If he wins a Super Bowl for Chicago, he will be one of the biggest starts in sports the next day.
Will it matter? I’m not sure. But it’s interesting.
Yep. We actually are seeing this in other Western countries too, especially during presidential elections. Widespread unhappiness turns incumbent status into a big disadvantage.
I like DeSantis. I didn't think he ran a very good campaign in 2024. Maybe he would this time.
My preferences in order:
1) Vance
2) DeSantis
3) Josh Hawley
4) Glenn Youngkin
5) Tulsi Gabbard
I didn’t understand the obituary for Vance 2028 last night. From the start, we’ve heard Vance opposed the war and Rubio supported it.
Vance is the anti-war, America First political that many of us expected Trump to be this term.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
The results tonight will likely convince the Democrats that AOC can win in 2028 in ways the heads of the party never believed Bernie Sanders could in 16 and 20.
The question then becomes: does a Democratic Party believing in AOC benefit them or Republicans?
Bobby Burack retweeted
Did you hear that “I do” at the end?
I knew Texas was teetering
Did Blue Tsunami Hype Actually Save Texas Republicans?
@Richzeoli joins @willcain to break down why nonstop media hype about a blue tsunami may have triggered the exact opposite effect at the ballot box. When overconfidence causes one side to stay home while waking up fired-up voters in critical states like Texas, election math changes fast. Will the red wall hold?
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It turns out @RCamposDuffy was right. The midterms prove it.
Will the war hawk Republicans at @dcexaminer issue an apology?
Along with Rachel, @ShemekaMichelle was on all of this from the beginning. Watch her show!