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Dan Orlovsky Criticized For Doing A ‘Blaccent’, Asking Why ‘Black Dudes’ Smell Better Than White Men

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Former NFL quarterback and current ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky decided to ask Stephen A. Smith and Jason McCourty why “Black dudes smell better than White dudes” on First Take and the moment was painfully awkward, to say the least.

The clip, from the Thursday, October 31 episode of ESPN’s long-running morning show First Take, is extremely awkward to watch, so fair warning. If you don’t want to watch it because it’s that unbearably uncomfortable, I’ll try to break it down for you. Otherwise, feel free to white-knuckle your way through it for yourself.

Dan Orlovsky, stuttering as he begins to ramp up his sentence — a clear tell of nerves — puts his arms on Stephen A. Smith as he begins to unravel his thought.

Now, while I’m not a body language expert, it appears Orlovsky does so in order to use Stephen A. Smith as a bit of a shield, as if to say, “Look how close I am with this Black man standing right here — I can say this!”

Smith, however — already awkwardly bobbing and dancing — dances away from Orlovsky, leaving him alone and exposed. Mina Kimes’ face turns into the mascot for Warheads candy, while Molly Qerim remains stone-faced and dead silent.

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That then puts the onus to fill the empty air on rookie analyst Jason McCourty, who attempts to divert the conversation by recalling one of Orlovsky’s past comments about not showering as much during the summertime.

“Why did he put on a blaccent?” asked the top reply, to which the OP (original poster for all you boomers out there) said, “Was thinking the same thing, super weird.”

Others noted the reactions of Mina Kimes — who immediately made a face as though she’d just eaten a lemon — and host Molly Qerim, who one social media user observed was “going nowhere near that.”

“I’ve said this so many times but everything he does feels like an audition for a Jordan Peele movie,” one football fan said of the former Detroit Lions QB, infamous for once running out of the back of his own team’s endzone for a safety.

“Shoulda listened to his first instinct on this one,” and “The man is unbelievably cringe,” are just some of the replies to the video of Orlovsky, which has racked up over 1.9 million views on X, formerly Twitter,  at the time of this writing.

“He’s the whitest man alive. Like how did he not get a little culture in NFL locker rooms? And he eats like a child,” said another confused football fan.

Orlovsky, 41 years old, has been with ESPN since 2017 and has since risen to become one of the top football analysts at the network, appearing on programs such as NFL Live, First Take, SportsCenter, and Get Up, in addition to calling college football games.