Why has hot-take culture taken over the NFL?

Sports media slowly, throughout the years has been switching from factual analysis to opinionated guesses. Why is that? Have we lost the literacy to understand the game? Do fans not care about statistical evidence? Is it all just a ploy to create controversial takes that garner attention?

Yes, it's all of it combined. Sports media has decided it's more profitable to throw your integrity into the trash and be ignorant to the evidence of the game. Why? Controversy. Controversy breeds engagement, engagement brings viewership, and viewership creates profit. This hot-take culture is leading to a lack of accountability not only when it comes to sports, but also with how opinionated society has become. Sports is the biggest source of entertainment in the world. True entertainment and peak athletic abilities are being displayed in multiple ways. The lessons learned, the humility and, the mindsets that come from sports are vast, which is why having misinformation being shared for the sole reason of creating viewership, instead of telling the truth, is leading to a very egotistical society/generation. I don't need to hear Dan Orlovsky say something wildly stupid, incoherent, and factual wrong when your job is to be factually correct. A prime example of this recently is Dan proclaiming Josh Allen as MVP because he doesn't have a 1000-yard receiver or running back. Well, not only did James Cook indeed run for 1000 yards, but he also had 16 fucking TD's. You know how ignorant you have to be to miss a 1000-yard rushing season when your job is a SPORTS ANALYST. He did know, that journalists and analysts will purposely leave out stats or change them to create more division, and if he didn't know James Cook had 1000 yards then he shouldn't be an analyst, he lacks the fundamental ability to research properly which is the fundamental basis of being an analyst or journalist. The bad thing is, it's not just Dan Orlovsky, honestly, he may be one of the more true analysts out there. However, it is the whole industry, the definition, the entire basis of what being a journalist is, has changed. The problem is that journalism specifically was a career that was not based on making money, what you thought was right, or having any bias in it at all. Journalism was like a scribe during a court trial, not thinking, not putting shit that wasn't there, there, and not leaving out information that would counteract the reason you became a journalist, its simply the direct information that you are witnessing without any influence from your own bias, or companies goals. An analyst was the person who took all of the research and stats from the journalist and created a factual conclusion based on ALL the evidence. Nowadays, analysts and journalists are just popular figureheads, spewing bullshit to bring in views, and because they were former players, fans don't like complaining, because we assume they know more than us, THEY PLAYED THE GAME, THEY SHOULD KNOW MORE.

Do they?

Probably, especially when it comes to the politics of the NFL, but let's not act like the majority of NFL players don't go bankrupt a few years after. These big sports media companies are paying for names, and figureheads to lie, so that they won't get backlash when people start to notice the bullshit. The average person believes the person who played the game professionally for 10 years, instead of the average Joe, who last played in high school, and only experience since is watching every single game. However, the difference is, that the average Joe is speaking out of love, and the former player is speaking out of greed. Now ask yourself, in today's day of age, what is more important to a person; their pride/integrity or money/validation?

(Disclaimer some journalists still do their job properly, usually an independent, as well as just some dumb fucks who spew whatever for the fuck of it, aka the majority of barstool)