Anyone else think he has business dealings with Jerry? I actually am one of the few people that actually like him as an announcer, but there were some real headscratchers last night trying to hype Cowboys players.
Tyron Smith had a hold that he called borderline upon the review and he had a whole arm bar around the guy's shoulder pads and neck as he was getting beat. It wasn't even close to borderline.
Once someone pointed out to me how often he uses the word "unbelievable" to describe relatively mundane plays, I haven't been able to think about anything else.
I think NBC's broadcast, as a whole, is really poor.
Micah Parsons- is one of the purest tacklers in the game.. How the hell can that be true since he had only played a tad over a half of a single game in the NFL.. The overblown love for this guy was ridiculous. he was pretty poor all game long.
Dak Prescott- forget the numbers, he was clearly limited on deeper throws early, they were short and were not with a ton of zip. The one run he had was basically called like he pulled off a Mike Vick type run... Once again, Collinsworth was just way way too over the top on a pretty generic play. Later he basically made it seem like Prescott decided to throw instead of run when scrambling to his left when in reality he couldn't get away from Shaq Barrett.
In a play where the Bucs were called offsides he never bothered to mention the very exaggerated head bob the Dallas Center was doing on every snap and every fake snap.
Last night he was beyond annoying and just spent too much time over hyping a moment or player to the point it just wasn't even genuine anymore, let alone factual.
ever since then i kinda tuned him out.
isn't he the asshole who kept talking about how the cowboys had our snap count down?
sounds like a good drinking game
Even PFF was making fun on him in coverage
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Hard not to notice.
Really, really glad Dallas lost, especially a last minute heartbreaker.
F the Cowboys and their know nothing, band wagon fans.
I don't know about you,but if they can find someone to draw on the screen a little,like they use to do,I would prefer that.
Doesn't even have to be about football.They could draw some bird shit on Brady's shoulder pads.
Bwahaha
Sometimes this is a result of a rip move by the defensive lineman and the refs let it go as a result.
Also when I heard "one of the purest tacklers in football" I was like wait, is he talking about Parsons, who is a rookie in his first game?!?
To be fair, he was pretty effusive about Brady, Gronk, Wirfs and Antonio Brown too.
Anyhow, as much as I try to ignore them, it was impossible last night. He was way way way over the top gushing about every move the Cowboys made. He made it seem that Dak had literally risen from the grave just prior to gametime, threw on the uni and boom...400 yards. An absolute miracle for our times. It got to be rather sickening, and I really dont care that it was the Cowboys, could have been any team. He just needed to dial the whole thing down about 50 notches and just commentate, not gush.
Yeah I’ve found him insufferable for years. I think he was ok at one point, but he has just become annoying to listen too. Shame he is partnered with Michael’s, they could do that man better.
Yeah I was like is Gruden back, what the fuck is going on?
OK, he was over the top about a lot of players, maybe. Many of you can't stomach the fact that Dak is good, that the Cowboys are stacked with receivers, that their OL is really good (btw, ours stinks), etc., etc. I enjoyed Gronk's game immensely, I thought it was a terrific football game ("a beauty' Michaels trilled). I think both of them were really enthused to be back in the booth to open the season, enthused and surprised with the caliber and excitement of the game, in which a non-playoff team gave the SB champs all they could handle.
I think CC makes a ton of insightful observations, and he obviously hangs with the players and coaches in the run-up to games to be able to inject sidebars of practices during the week, what's been installed, etc., etc. I like that stuff.
A superb observation he made last night: Bucs have a 3rd down on the 3 (3rd Quarter I think), a score puts them up by 9, tight formation, Gronk tucked inside the slot R. Dallas calls a blitz, including a S (?) right up the middle. CC points out how at the snap the LB (or DB) moves with the slot, meaning that Lawrence has to cover Gronk, Brady reads this as he's dropping and as the blitzer closes in (obscuring his vision, imo), he's able to zip a very short pass into traffic into Gronk's hands for the score. CC later patted himself on the back for his read, but it was so quick, so nuanced, I found it informative and illustrative of how the Bucs would attack Dallas 'd' in the Red Zone at a very critical point in the game.
So there.
I covered Bengals games four or five times a year for three seasons when Collinsworth was playing. One of the most quick-witted football players I've ever met. Always had a great answer to whatever you asked him. In locker rooms where a lot of guys have trouble forming a sentence, that was refreshing. He was also the most accommodating player I've ever seen. Part of that might be because he was so skinny many people probably didn't recognize him out of uniform. I was 6-4 195 at the time and he made me look overweight.
The effervescence you see on air is not fake, that's his personality. He's one of those guys that really has fun at life.
He's always been too positive as a TV guy, and it's gotten worse, but the network doesn't put him there for football fans who know what is going on. They put him there to entertain people who aren't knowledgeable about the game. I will give him props for this - he isn't their to talk about what he did when he played (e.g. Arod and a host of others).
Yes, he can be over the top sometimes. But I'll tell you one thing, everyone on this board would love to hang out with him for a day or two on a holiday weekend sharing drinks and listening to stories.
[quote] for the first time I saw what many here complain about with him. Everybody he talked about is like the greatest opr best this or that. Examples:
Just have to pile on here. Cannot agree more, have grown to hate Collinsworth. Had to turn it off when he said
"Fournet was one of the greatest college football player he ever watched"
Come on, the guy was good but "greatest ever"....really!! Guess he never watched Barry Sanders or Hershel Walker or (place any number of names here).. Yeesh, I had enough.