No, he said he's not trying to flamebait because he knows the knee-jerk reaction of almost every smark to criticism of Jericho, RVD or Benoit is, "Troll!"
He makes very good points, the most important being Jericho acts like a goof and doesn't back up what he says. Jericho adlibs much of the material given to him, and creative can only be given so much of the blame; eventually the buck has to stop at the wrestler playing the character.