As someone who would know from experience, Bill Simmons doesn’t believe things are going to end well for Dan Le Batard at ESPN.

Le Batard made waves Thursday when the talk show host commented on President Trump and the “Send her back” chants, regarding Rep. Ilhan Omar, at a rally last week. He also criticized ESPN’s policy on not talking about politics — which, in turn, he violated — and called it “cowardly.”

Le Batard, after speaking with ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro over the weekend, opted not to do his radio show on Monday morning, but returned on Tuesday. Simmons said the situation reminded him “a little bit” of his own experience at ESPN. And while Le Batard appears to have survived the initial storm, more issues could be coming.

“To me, reading the tea leaves, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to go that well,” Simmons said on “The Bill Simmons Podcast” posted Monday on The Ringer.

“I don’t think this plays out in a great way for his future there, because once you go down this road, now any time he says anything, it’s going to be blog posts and news stories, all that stuff. I just think he’s not one of those guys who’s going to be like, ‘I’m not saying anything.’ Especially, you have an election coming next year and I just don’t see him backing off.”

Simmons’ falling out with ESPN began in 2014, when he ripped NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for his handling of the Ray Rice case and was subsequently suspended. Simmons said he knew what he was doing when he was going after Goodell, knew it was going to be a problem for ESPN, “and I just didn’t care.” It ultimately led to him leaving the company in 2015.

Now the founder of The Ringer, Simmons compared his controversy to Le Batard’s.

“Le Batard’s a really smart guy,” Simmons said. “I don’t feel like they are accidents.”

Simmons said he is friends with Le Batard but had not talked to him in the last week. He believes ESPN just wants to stick to games and highlights.

“He’s a really proud guy who, I feel like, at some point he looked at it and said, ‘I have a platform, I’m on live radio right now, and I’m just going to use the platform for this and I know there’s going to be repercussions,'” Simmons said. “So is that a good thing? Yes, it is a good thing. On the other hand, it’s going to cause a s–t show for him. It’s not something that’s going to go away.

“I’ve found out, with all my NFL stuff in 2014, once you pass this point and you become kind of a story, for lack of a better word, within the company and it’s you vs. ESPN or it’s this person said this. Then ESPN’s in a position now where, if they discipline him, everybody gets even madder. If they don’t discipline him, then it’s basically they’re saying, ‘Our policy means nothing, it’s now a free-for-all, say what you want.’ He’s putting them in that position.”

The year Simmons left ESPN, Le Batard was asked about his situation and shared an opinion that is relevant again.

“Nobody in the company is too important to ever get the [ax],” Le Batard told USA Today’s FTW blog. “Anybody can leave without it harming ESPN. So when you get a situation that America’s most popular sportswriter is given a lot and wants more — whether it’s freedom or money — and on top of that you have a Bill Simmons that, it’s been reported, has issues with management. When you put those three together, ESPN’s going to let somebody go. The rest of us are just hanging onto them.”