Let's be careful with the direction of the thread here, guys. There's not reason for a thread like this to even skirt the edges of a political debate.
As for the sexism talk, it's obvious to me that they want at least one female in a prominent position in the team media department, and the reason for it is they're conscious of growing the audience for the sport and girls and women are a fairly dramatically underrepresented demo in the NFL. Hence the networks having more female sideline reporters, the breast cancer awareness campaigns, the strong (and appropriate) stand against domestic violence. The Cowboys media team has made a point of having a woman involved in their shows for years now, ostensibly for the same reasons.
Some of those women are absolutely on-point with their football knowledge. It's great. Taylor Stern was not in that boat. She was flat out awful at the start. And while there's no proving she was fed lines, it didn't take much horsepower to hear Broaddus ask an obviously scripted question with that hint condescension (that means 'talking down to stupid people'), her fumbling through papers and stuttering, and then reading a reply that had the sorts of grammar tells and pronoun reference errors that made it obvious she didn't really understand what she was saying. They clearly groomed her for the role in a way they've never had to groom a male contributor (in my memory, at least). To her credit, a year and a half later she was on top of her screws. She even references moderately-obscure NFL games from way before her time now, and can chip in re: some college players and college football history. It's pretty impressive. It's also pretty clear she's good at getting access to players and not shy about digging around for tidbits.
I believe she was a go-getter that was willing to take a low-paying but prominent position and grow into it. She's gone from really bad to 'not good, but tolerable' in a fairly short amount of time. And she's gotten more comfortable on camera. I got nothing against her other than I think her presence somehow makes Broaddus a little bit creepier, but that's not really fair to put on her.
And anybody who thinks she's of average attractiveness clearly hasn't seen a statistically relevant number of human females, by the way. She's not a stunner, but she's far from average, even accounting for the fact that there's no accounting for taste.
