Stephen A. Smith doubles down on his awful mistake about the Patriots

In a post to his X page on Friday night, Smith somehow decided to double down on his awful mistake.

“Nice try!” wrote Smith. “First of all, we reported earlier in the year that [Williams] was out due to Prostate Cancer when it happened. Secondly, he still talks to coaches for game-planning purposes.

“Thirdly, forgetting to mention all of that is different than not knowing,” Smith wrote. “Plus it really doesn’t matter when I’ve got experts like Ryan Clark and Cam backing me up. But keep pushing the story. Hope it gets the clicks folks want. Carry on!”

That was certainly quite the exercise in mental gymnastics from Smith. Effectively, he was saying that he did not make a mistake … and that if he did make a mistake, that it was justified … and that if his mistake wasn’t justified, then it didn’t really matter anyway.

It is fair to say that Williams likely has still had some role in shaping New England’s defense this season. But with Williams having to take an understandably major step back from his duties to recover, it is completely disingenuous to suggest that he alone should be credited for the team’s defensive success (without even a single mention of the excellent work that Kuhr has done).

Unfortunately though, these kinds of self-created spectacles are all too on-brand for Smith. That might have been even worse than the embarrassing “Charlie Kirk” tongue slip that Smith had on the air a couple of weeks ago.