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JJ Watt is fed up with the ESPN-YouTube TV dispute.
Earlier this week, an annoyed Watt blasted ESPN after he was unable to watch the Arizona Cardinals-Dallas Cowboys Monday Night Football game on YouTube TV, as Disney had removed all of its channels from the platform due to a carriage fee dispute.
The crazy part is, I have some sort of subscription because I watch Espanyol matches on ESPN+
But I can’t watch MNF.
I don’t understand it and quite frankly just don’t really care to figure it out right now.
Just frustrating.
All of it.— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) November 4, 2025
On Wednesday, Watt appeared on the Pat McAfee show on ESPN and vowed that he was done buying any streaming apps.
“It’s football. We need it,” Watt said on the Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday. “And I’m not going to enter my information on another frickin’ website, and I’m not getting a confirmation code sent to my email, clicking it and coming back and putting it in—I’m not doing it. I did it once, I have some sort of subscription, I have no clue what it is because I can only watch frickin’ half the content apparently, or it’s replay content that’s bull—-. Figure it out.”
“I NEED TO WATCH FOOTBALL 😂😂
FIGURE IT OUT” ~ @JJWatt #PMSLive https://t.co/QvepjoT3HV pic.twitter.com/YvpBxhi605
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) November 5, 2025
Watt explained his frustration with not being able to watch his former team, the Cardinals on Monday Night Football.
“When that QR code pops up, I get hot,” continued Watt. “And then you do it, you scan it, and you’re like, ‘Alright I’m in!’ And then they’re like, ‘No. You don’t have that one. Too bad.’ I’m trying to watch my guys, I played for the Cardinals, I wanted to watch the game on Monday night.”
The ESPN-YouTube TV situation is now entering its second week, and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight.