| ESPN will use its “MNF” crew to call Monday’s Alabama-Clemson CFP Championship game as part of planned MegaCast coverage around the event. The “MNF Film Room” will replace the “Coaches Film Room” on ESPNews for the game, with Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten and Booger McFarland teaming up with Todd McShay to provide an X’s and O’s-style telecast from the game site in Santa Clara. ESPN says other parts of the MegaCast lineup will be released later today. |
What a great idea......said no one ever.
WTF?
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ESPN seems to just have absolutely no awareness. This crew was a monumental failure. It was like a competition to see which one of the 3 could upstage the others by saying something even less logical/sensical than the guy before him.
Jason Witten spends half of every broadcast tripping over his own words and forgetting the point he was trying to make before he even gets to the end of a thought. Just horrendous broadcasting.
ESPN seems to just have absolutely no awareness. This crew was a monumental failure. It was like a competition to see which one of the 3 could upstage the others by saying something even less logical/sensical than the guy before him.
Jason Witten spends half of every broadcast tripping over his own words and forgetting the point he was trying to make before he even gets to the end of a thought. Just horrendous broadcasting.
Booger annoys me far more. At least Witten throughout the year admitted he's new to this broadcast thing and would spend hours in the hotel mirror night before games practicing. Booger thinks he's paid by the word, and talks far too much for a sideline reporter. Just put him in the booth so they can stop cutting each off so much if you're going to have him talk this much.
Not to mention his sideline seat obstructs so many seats behind him... its really disrespectful.
ESPN has been bad at picking announcers for a long time.
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Who the fuck is going to see this and think "oh, awesome! That's definitely how I'm going to enjoy this one!"
ESPN seems to just have absolutely no awareness. This crew was a monumental failure. It was like a competition to see which one of the 3 could upstage the others by saying something even less logical/sensical than the guy before him.
Jason Witten spends half of every broadcast tripping over his own words and forgetting the point he was trying to make before he even gets to the end of a thought. Just horrendous broadcasting.
Booger annoys me far more. At least Witten throughout the year admitted he's new to this broadcast thing and would spend hours in the hotel mirror night before games practicing. Booger thinks he's paid by the word, and talks far too much for a sideline reporter. Just put him in the booth so they can stop cutting each off so much if you're going to have him talk this much.
Not to mention his sideline seat obstructs so many seats behind him... its really disrespectful.
Yeah, that monstrosity they have him patrolling the sidelines in is absolutely ridiculous. He's terrible. Every back and forth between the two of them just makes me cringe.
His analysis is so bad....so so bad.
That's because they look more to "entertainment value" than "analyst value." That's what prompted the hiring of the likes of Miller and Kornheiser.
I doubt there are many people who will tune in to a football game and look to be entertained by the announcers and not the game itself.
Yup, that's basically it. Romo was a hit on CBS so they figured this other ex-Cowboy would be a hit on MNF. Yes, the people who make these decisions can be that stupid at times.
This is stupid and symbolic of ESPN. The whole point of the Coaches Room is to hear from Patterson, Addazio, etc. talk about run fits, fundamentals, schemes etc. What the F will Witten and Booger add to that?
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ESPN has been bad at picking announcers for a long time.
That's because they look more to "entertainment value" than "analyst value." That's what prompted the hiring of the likes of Miller and Kornheiser.
I doubt there are many people who will tune in to a football game and look to be entertained by the announcers and not the game itself.
I'm going back to the SNF crew. They were terrible as well.
Then fans who actually pay good money for the tix,
started bitching because that vehicle was in their way.
ESPN should scrap that bad idea!
Unless i'm misunderstanding, its still Herbie and Fowler calling the game. Its just the idiot crew instead of big-time college HCs breaking down the film over on ESPN news during the game, which some here enjoyed during the semi-finals.
Then fans who actually pay good money for the tix,
started bitching because that vehicle was in their way.
ESPN should scrap that bad idea!
Instead, ESPN's response will be to equip the vehicle with racing stripes and a neon-lit undercarriage.
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Simply being an ex-Cowboy? Whenever I'd hear him as a player, he wasn't a Romo or Madden. He was blah.
His analysis is so bad....so so bad.
You mean guys don't actually pull rabbits out of their head?
There's a documentary on how this decision was reached. It's the Poochie episode of the Simpsons.
ESPN seems to just have absolutely no awareness. This crew was a monumental failure. It was like a competition to see which one of the 3 could upstage the others by saying something even less logical/sensical than the guy before him.
Jason Witten spends half of every broadcast tripping over his own words and forgetting the point he was trying to make before he even gets to the end of a thought. Just horrendous broadcasting.
I still LMFAO when I think about Witten and his “he pulled a rabbit out of head”