Rage Bait: Dan Orlovsky leaves Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes off his Top-10 QBs list

Sports media’s entire business model is rage-baiting fans into engagement, and nobody plays that game harder than Dan Orlovsky.

On Monday, he delivered a masterpiece in manufactured outrage. He unveiled his “Top 10 quarterbacks” list — and somehow managed to leave off Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes.

He didn’t just poke the Eagles fanbase; he went full chaos agent, lobbing a grenade into the NFL discourse just to watch it burn.

Honestly, I have to respect this level of trolling from Dan Orlovsky

Dan Orlovsky left Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes off of his top 10 QBs list…

This has gotta be rage bait 🤣 pic.twitter.com/jtawG6rssj

— The Eagle Times (@TheEagleTimes_) August 11, 2025

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I’ve written plenty about the state of sports media, and the verdict hasn’t changed — it’s braindead trash. That’s not even a take anymore. It’s just fact.

So instead of wasting energy calling Dan Orlovsky what he so clearly is, I’m just going to laugh. Because let’s be real — when Orlovsky or any of the other media parasites pull this kind of stunt, it’s not about the take. It’s about baiting you into outrage. That’s their oxygen.

And First Take? It’s not sports analysis. It’s professional trolling for clicks. Thoughtful sports discourse died years ago, and the human attention span is now so cooked that big media can only feed us fast-food outrage. They know it. They profit from it.

So don’t take the bait. Jalen Hurts just won Super Bowl MVP and is locked in to do it again. Meanwhile, Dan Orlovsky is clinging to relevance like a raccoon in a dumpster fire. One is building a legacy. The other is auditioning for his next clickbait segment. And both, honestly, make me happy.