Cowboys fans will no longer be saddled with vociferous nonsense as FS1 cancels Speak

USA Today

17-07-2025

FS1 has cancelled Speak, removing two of Dak Prescott's most vocal critics, Joy Taylor and LeSean McCoy, from the network. Cowboys fans may see this as the end of a long, biased run.
For years, FS1's flagship program Speak felt less like a sports show and more like a panel of hecklers in the cheap seats - loud, repetitive, and obsessed with tearing down Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. But this week, the curtain finally closed.
As part of a broader shakeup to its daytime lineup, FS1 canceled Speak, along with two other shows: Breakfast Ball and The Facility. That means not only the end of a nine-year run for Speak (originally launched as Speak for Yourself), but also the quiet exit of hosts Joy Taylor and LeSean 'Shady' McCoy — two of the network's loudest voices when it came to criticizing the Dallas Cowboys.
Their vitriol-veiled-as-analysis typically involved laps of the same recycled takes. McCoy in particular turned the phrase 'Dak Prescott is ASS ass' into a personal catchphrase, repeating it at every opportunity like it was part of the show's theme song.
While Speak occasionally brought on insightful guests like David Helman or James Jones, the core cast never passed up a chance to blame Prescott for the Cowboys' perceived shortcomings or paint him as mediocre. At one point, Joy Taylor even argued he deserved more criticism than other quarterbacks simply because he 'wears a star on his helmet.'
It's one thing to challenge a quarterback's performance. It's another to roast one man to the point that it's associated with the brand as it was with Speak.
Now, some of the loudest voices in the anti-Prescott echo chamber are off the air. The cancellation comes amid legal drama at FS1, where Taylor is named in a lawsuit alleging she contributed to an unsafe work environment. Fellow Speak host Emmanuel Acho is also mentioned in the suit, adding another layer to the show's unraveling.
Whether this shakeup leads FS1 in a better direction remains to be seen. But for Cowboys fans, it feels like the end of an exhausting off-Broadway run where the storyline never changed, and the Cowboys were always cast as the punchline.