Smoot Lays the Smack Down (Redskins vs. Dolphins)

[sportscurmudgeon]

With regard to the Skins' radio team:

Larry Michael is a competent broadcaster and it is OK for the local radio guy to be a homer. That is why I will gladly give him a pass for his game day broadcasts. However, his daily performance on "Redskins Nation" or whatever that daily TV abomination is called is beneath contempt. My cat could provide an equal amount of insight and the only sound my cat makes is "Meow!"

Sam Huff was never a great radio commentator. Those who think he was great in the 80s are remembering how great it was to listen to the accounts of those games when the Skins were winning about 75% - 80% of the time. He was never insightful. Nowadays, when you listen you just hope that he does not implode on the air and start talking about something having nothing to do with football in no known language.

Sonny Jurgensen is still very good on the radio. His "homerism" is tempered by the fact that what he sees on the field is embarrassing and he cannot hide his embarrassment for a full three hours. Listen to him as the offense comes to the line. He will mutter in the background - - as Larry Michael is saying that there is trips right or something like that - - "This play is going left." or "There is a lot of room down the middle." And you know what, he is right about 90% of the time. He sees what is going to happen before it happens. That is why he is worth listening to...

Doc Walker is a one-trick pony. The world is made up of "ballers" and "other people". When someone puts on a Redskins jersey, that person immediately becomes a "baller". Some folks here must love him because as soon as the Redskins sign some guy off the street who was moving pianos for a living for the last 9 months, that guy instantly becomes a "stud". Doc's sideline insights are no better than the sideline insights from every other useless sideline reporter on radio or TV.

Joe Theismann is a motor-mouth and a know-it-all. Like Sam Huff, if the Skins are winning 80% of their games, you can listen to his non-stop chatter. If the Skins are losing 80% of their games, listening to him is like getting a root canal without novicaine.