Jim Ross has been doing this ever since he joined AEW, he's just never been quite as straightforward about it as he's being here.

Jim Ross is in AEW for a paycheck as his passion clearly isn't in the AEW product, that's also been pretty obvious from the beginning. He makes some good points, though I don't know if he's spoken with talent about any of this backstage or what. If he has and they just keep on keepin' on, then it's on the talent themselves. Otherwise, it does just kinda look like he's bashing the product.

I have a feeling he's really spoken with a lot of the talent about all this and part of their problem with all this is that Jim Ross hasn't allowed himself to become a mark. He knows what he likes, what he doesn't like, he'll freely offer advice and his opinion but he doesn't go around basically jerking AEW off in the same way someone like Dave Meltzer does.