It's not faux outrage to say the comment was stupid as shyt.
I was listening to that podcast on the way to work this morning when he said that. I immediately hit that

face on the train.
He is one of these dudes that tries to find something deeper in sports which really isn't there. It's just stupidity more than something to get angry about.
The outrage for many isn't the reach, but the fact that Simmons does it all the time without fail.