Horrible Announcers

ChuckyTheGoat · 10-12-25, 10:44 AM

Hey, Nash. I love Announcer review:
*Sometimes, the announcers matter more to me than the game.

1) I agree with you on Eisen. He was fresh a LONG time ago.
...Don't really like his style. I don't listen to him anymore.

2) I do like the Kurt Warner story. Came from way back to succeed.
...I give him more credence than Eisen.

mjsuax13 · 10-12-25, 10:58 AM

Anybody can be an announcer now. Look at the illiterates on every show on ESPN. Embarrassing. Doesn’t matter as long as they fit the profile.

JAKEPEAVY21 · 10-12-25, 11:00 AM

Originally posted by mjsuax13

Anybody can be an announcer now. Look at the illiterates on every show on ESPN. Embarrassing. Doesn’t matter as long as they fit the profile.

What!?! I get ALL my NFL info from Mina Kimes

stevenash · 10-12-25, 11:14 AM

Originally posted by JAKEPEAVY21

What!?! I get ALL my NFL info from Mina Kimes

What, no love for Jamie Erdahl?
(The hottest woman in professional football)

This is the most boring game I've ever seen,
Deep in the fourth quarter, the Jets are up 11-10, with just 136 TOTAL yards.

pavyracer · 10-12-25, 11:22 AM

This game is unwatchable. There is nothing the announcers can do to fix the horrible product NFL has put on this morning.

JAKEPEAVY21 · 10-12-25, 11:27 AM

^

Didn't the same 2 teams play a complete stinker last year as well? Almost a carbon copy, I think last year it was a 10-9 final or something similar.

stevenash · 10-12-25, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by pavyracer

This game is unwatchable. There is nothing the announcers can do to fix the horrible product NFL has put on this morning.

Justin Fields is a bust.
He sucks at QB.
QBs I'd rather see starting for the Jets other than Fields.

Bryce Young.
Spencer Rattler
Jaxson Dart
Daniel Dimes' Jones
Drake Maye

JAKEPEAVY21 · 10-12-25, 11:46 AM

Originally posted by stevenash

Justin Fields is a bust.
He sucks at QB.
QBs I'd rather see starting for the Jets other than Fields.

Bryce Young.
Spencer Rattler
Jaxson Dart
Daniel Dimes' Jones
Drake Maye

Typical Jets...they signed him for 2 years $40 million when they could have had Mac Jones for $3 million/per or a slew of others that are certainly better passing the ball then Fields, for a fraction of the price.

stevenash · 10-12-25, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by stevenash

QBs I'd rather see starting for the Jets other than Fields.

Bryce Young.
Spencer Rattler
Jaxson Dart
Daniel Dimes' Jones
Drake Maye

Let's revisit this post.
Young
Rattler
Danny Dimes
Drake Maye
Already at 100+ yards or more at the half, surpassing Fields' total from earlier.
(Dart did it Thursday night)

pavyracer · 10-12-25, 02:29 PM

Originally posted by stevenash

Justin Fields is a bust.
He sucks at QB.
QBs I'd rather see starting for the Jets other than Fields.

Bryce Young.
Spencer Rattler
Jaxson Dart
Daniel Dimes' Jones
Drake Maye

The Jets OL is a bust. He didn't have time to throw today. And he kept the game close and covered the spread.

ByeShea · 10-12-25, 05:50 PM

Originally posted by stevenash

Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner are awful.
Like Buck and Troy, awful, maybe even worse.
That's next-level stinky.

Eisen is boring AF, and Warner (aka Captain Obvious) tells me nothing that we don't already know and is not capable of forming a sentence without four pauses.

The R&D team at Pfizer should figure out a way to bottle them and sell them as a sleep aid. It'll put the Sominex people out of work.

On field - I am a huge Kurt Warner fan. His story and play inspired. But in the booth - he is Frankenstein. He's amazed the Jets aren't passing the ball in certain situations, as If Justin Fields (clearly suffering from a mental block on how to play QB while actively quarterbacking an NFL team) can morph into Pat Mahomes at the snap of the finger. Totally lost.

ChuckyTheGoat · 12-21-25, 08:44 AM

Originally posted by JAKEPEAVY21

What!?! I get ALL my NFL info from Mina Kimes

I read that Kimes makes $1Mill per year. How is that possible?

ChuckyTheGoat · 12-21-25, 08:45 AM

Originally posted by mjsuax13

Anybody can be an announcer now. Look at the illiterates on every show on ESPN. Embarrassing. Doesn’t matter as long as they fit the profile.

Agreed, MJ. And how about the NFL preview show? HOW MANY talking-heads can you have?

JAKEPEAVY21 · 12-21-25, 10:22 AM

Originally posted by ChuckyTheGoat

I read that Kimes makes $1Mill per year. How is that possible?

It's pretty clear but ESPN loves the DEI hires...most of the people working there nowadays have no business being the resident "expert" in their particular area of "expertise". They are all about checking boxes regarding diversity.

Easy-Rider 66 · 12-21-25, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by ChuckyTheGoat

I read that Kimes makes $1Mill per year. How is that possible?

how much does Steven A smith make a year?

Greg4Keno · 12-21-25, 10:38 AM

Was it just me or did Tom Brady do well yesterday? He used to be in the HORRIBLE category just starting out on FOX

str · 12-21-25, 11:23 AM

Originally posted by Greg4Keno

Was it just me or did Tom Brady do well yesterday? He used to be in the HORRIBLE category just starting out on FOX

I thought Brady did sound a little better yesterday. But was it him or is the bar just getting lower ?

ChuckyTheGoat · 12-21-25, 12:16 PM

Originally posted by Easy-Rider 66

how much does Steven A smith make a year?

EZ, I read that Stephen A makes $40Mill annually between his two deals (ESPN and SiriusXM). Needless to say, that's beyond insane.

Easy-Rider 66 · 12-21-25, 12:25 PM

Originally posted by ChuckyTheGoat

EZ, I read that Stephen A makes $40Mill annually between his two deals (ESPN and SiriusXM). Needless to say, that's beyond insane.

THX Chuck. crazy $$$$$

Steelers05 · 12-21-25, 02:34 PM

Louis Riddick has to be on the list.

stevenash · 12-21-25, 03:40 PM

Originally posted by Steelers05

Louis Riddick has to be on the list.

Yeah, and while we're at it, let's add Booger too.

pavyracer · 12-21-25, 03:57 PM

My current set up for watching NFL. Big screen TV on mute. Wearing wireless headphones and streaming concerts on YouTube.

stevenash · 12-21-25, 06:47 PM

Originally posted by pavyracer

My current set up for watching NFL. Big screen TV on mute. Wearing wireless headphones and streaming concerts on YouTube.

I love Kevin Harlan; he never fails to crack me up.
Harlan (IMO) is the total package, personable, funny, and knows four different sports fluently.
And just as important, never takes himself too seriously.

I love Harlan on TV doing the NBA and NFL.
He's employed by Westwood One as the play-by-play man on their radio casts.

Ian Eagle is solid, too.
As much as I like Brady as FOX's NFL analyst, I noticed he's starting to turn out like most of them, using the same old tired cliches and such.

Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt are 100 percent unlistenable.
Johnson's over-the-top hyperbole is brutal, and every word out of Klatt's mouth sounds AI-generated.
Ugh.

I think I mentioned I briefly met Gus for about a minute; he comes across as a gentleman's gentleman.
This was in between the Big East Tourney at MSG three years ago, when UConn beat Marquette on their way to their historic back-to-back seasons

ChuckyTheGoat · 12-21-25, 08:35 PM

Originally posted by Easy-Rider 66

THX Chuck. crazy $$$$$

Salud, EZ. I have my own opinions on this:
1) You don't need to go back much further than one generation. Used to be that your # of news-sources was pretty limited.
2) It's become so much more prevalent. But they're still reporting on the same news. It's way overdone.
3) Smith should consider himself to be lucky as fk. He has some good NBA intel, but that price? Plz.

S0BRiquet · 12-22-25, 12:58 AM

Originally posted by str

I thought Brady did sound a little better yesterday. But was it him or is the bar just getting lower ?

Hi STR = even though the bar has been lowered in recent years, I think Brady is incredible in the booth and I almost hate to say that he has been like that since his first broadcast. Compare him to Aikman who has been doing this for decades now. He has never really improved since year 1 and now he's a little goofy this year. Brady is insightful and says things that I have never heard from another analyst from the QB perspective. So many now, in both NFL and college, have no frikkin right being in booth and have probably been placed there for political reasons or something other than being good at analysis.

EGrecu · 12-22-25, 01:02 AM

Kurt Warner is very good

Tom Brady is captain obvious

str · 12-22-25, 05:15 AM

Originally posted by S0BRiquet

Hi STR = even though the bar has been lowered in recent years, I think Brady is incredible in the booth and I almost hate to say that he has been like that since his first broadcast. Compare him to Aikman who has been doing this for decades now. He has never really improved since year 1 and now he's a little goofy this year. Brady is insightful and says things that I have never heard from another analyst from the QB perspective. So many now, in both NFL and college, have no frikkin right being in booth and have probably been placed there for political reasons or something other than being good at analysis.

I agree. He has pointed out a few things I have never heard before and he nailed them. Let’s face it, I love the NFL but, when I can see the defense set prior to the snap, I don’t know who’s going to rotate over to guard the TE that chips and slides out. But Brady sure does. He sees things we or at least I do not see. Some people might not care for that but I love it.
if you are a professional like him, he just sees things we don’t. Maybe it’s just me but I love that game within the game stuff. Every pro sport has it and when it is pointed out by someone that truly knows what they’re talking about, it changes how you think.
I promise you, my comment was not a knock at all. Might have sounded like it but I think he has a good chance of reinventing the announcers booth.
I hope so.

S0BRiquet · 12-22-25, 11:52 AM

Right with you on all of that. Watching at home you always wonder if they send the TE (or WR) to opposite side before snap to draw a specific defender with him or any other defender over to that side or as you stated to chip block key pass rusher. Then again it could be a big nothing... so his insight has been great since the beginning and I've heard him say things that I had not heard from other analysts
Meanwhile, I hope they go back to hiring Communications majors versus former players. As it turns out, many of them don't know the game inside and out which is what you'd expect if they have been living the life for 20+ years or wtvr.

str · 12-22-25, 02:27 PM

Originally posted by S0BRiquet

Right with you on all of that. Watching at home you always wonder if they send the TE (or WR) to opposite side before snap to draw a specific defender with him or any other defender over to that side or as you stated to chip block key pass rusher. Then again it could be a big nothing... so his insight has been great since the beginning and I've heard him say things that I had not heard from other analysts
Meanwhile, I hope they go back to hiring Communications majors versus former players. As it turns out, many of them don't know the game inside and out which is what you'd expect if they have been living the life for 20+ years or wtvr.

Honestly, that does not surprise me as much as you would think. In my business from years ago, the number of race horse trainers that could articulate what happened in a given race was surprisingly low. I guess it's the same thing in other sports.