On Thursday, Skip Bayless made headlines with his comments about Dak Prescott after he opened up about his older brother’s suicide and how he’s coped with it. The Fox Sports host said he had no sympathy for the Dallas Cowboys quarterback – and implied that his vulnerability hinders his leadership abilities.
“I have deep compassion for clinical depression, but when it comes to the quarterback of an NFL team, you know this better than I do, it’s the ultimate leadership position in sports, am I right about that?” Bayless said on Fox Sports’ “Undisputed” on Thursday. “You are commanding an entire franchise… And they’re all looking to you to be their CEO, to be in charge of the football team.
“Because of all that, I don’t have sympathy for him going public with, ‘I got depressed’ and ‘I suffered depression early in COVID to the point that I couldn’t even go work out.’ Look, he’s the quarterback of America’s team.”
Dak clearly heard Skip’s comments because the Cowboys star responded when he said it’s important for him not to hide his mental health.
“No, I think that’s a fake leader. Being a leader is about being genuine and being real,” Dak said via Cowboys reporter Jori Epstein.
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Prescott recently revealed that his older brother, Jace, took his own life this past spring and how emotionally draining the experience was.
“I got the help I needed, and I was very open about it. … Emotions can overcome you if you don’t do something about it,” Prescott told reporters on Thursday.
“Mental health is a huge issue and it’s a real thing in our world right now, especially the world we live in where everything is as viral and everyone is part of the media, I guess you can say, and can get on social media and be overcome with emotions or be overcome with the thoughts of other people and allow that to fill into their heads when those things aren’t necessarily true, whether it’s getting likes on Instagram or something being viewed or being bulied or whatever it may be. All of those things can put thoughts into your head about yourself or about your situation in life that aren’t true. I think that it’s huge. I think it’s huge to talk, I think it’s huge to get help and it saves lives.”
