Game Coverage Sucks

[ArcticRed]

All praise to the almighty mute button!

[Hijinx]

Nice to know I wasn't alone in hating on the "booth talent". Monday night football has been dying for some time now and this is one of the biggest reasons.

They want to draw in non football fans. They try to do all this human interest story crap and not cover the game. I heard more about Reids's crack head sons than I did about The Skin's D.

And what was with all the Pat's talk; yes it was a huge story, last week. If I wanted to hear Tony K. talk about how he felt about the fine and this type of cheating in general, I WOULD WATCH PTI!!! It was like they didn't even know there was a game being played. I will bet any one here that the 3 of them said the name of a Pats player or coach more times than the name of a Skins player or coach.

There was 20-30 total hrs of NFL television coverage yesterday on 5 or more different channels, I think if we wanted to hear about the Pats we would gotten our fill yesterday.

[Redskin]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

No comment

Thats becuase you cant make one, but your mind is free and you are thinking the same thing. DOnt you have like an anonymous suggestion box at ESPN that you can just slip a littl epiece of paper in while no ones watch that says, "Comentators sucked ass monday night"

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Redskin

Thats becuase you cant make one, but your mind is free and you are thinking the same thing. DOnt you have like an anonymous suggestion box at ESPN that you can just slip a littl epiece of paper in while no ones watch that says, "Comentators sucked ass monday night"

Well look, we'll have our Tuesday morning meeting tomorrow and discuss all the hate (as we always do). And there are a lot of things that need work. On the other hand, there is a lot that contractually has to be done and a lot that is done very well.

But, I've learned that most don't care to hear that. They don't want to hear about the business of it all, or the bigger picture. They just want to complain. That's cool, but to that I have "no comment"

[Luxorreb]

My brother and I tried to goto Sonny and Sam on Redskins radio, but the audio was like 10 secs ahead of ESPN's video. So we chose matching crappy commentary. 2-0 is huge. Beating the Eagles at home is HUGER! Giants 0-2 at home this week BIG TIME! Everyone at Fed Ex step it up and make some noise!!! GO SKINS!!!

[Crazyhorse1]

Originally Posted by SC Skins Fan

Worst coverage of all-time. My wife was yelling at the TV because it was so bad and she wanted some football talk (I love her ). Kornheiser is the absolute worst, Tirico doesn't keep things on track, Jaws is alright but they never let the guy talk football. Barkley just made things worse and basically ruined the whole third quarter plus they kept showing shots of those four idiots sitting in the booth rather than actually talking about or showing anything happening on the field. Literally the worst NFL coverage I've ever seen.

Oh, and then there was Barkley who just restated the same three points for 45 minutes, unbearable! Plus the announcers just kept repeated the same hackneyed soundbites on the Redskins and how they bring in high-priced players, etc. etc. like they have not looked at anything the Skins have done this offseason and have nothing relevant to say about what was happening in the game. I could go on forever! NFLN is at least giving the Skins some love and Adam Schefter and TD actually pointed out the obvious point that all the 'experts' just look at what happened last year rather than remembering that the Skins were 10-6 in 2005.

Oh, and can we get some info on the Randy Thomas injury during the telecast? Geez!

I think you give the coverage too much credit. It was worse than all that. I think it was one of the worse shows of any kind that I've ever seen. The only was they could have made it worse would have been to invite Donald Trump to the booth to talk about himself during live action.

[Redskins1960]

Hi
I liked Barkley and I thought he told us how the Philly fans don't get it.
I was surprised how much of the game I missed by the drivel and drool coming out of the booth by Kornheiser and Tirico.
I was ready for Charles to take out a deck of cards and take all of their money.
I loved the come back by Charles when Tirico said "The Eagles should have won last week".
Barkley went on and on about how last week doesn't count.
I lost 1 or 2 plays in the game with bad camera angles and green faces.
MNF has come down to Kornheiser/Jaws and Tirico.

I thought ESPN was smarter.

Get over it the Redskins won.

[Daseal]

1) No one in that booth was a DC guy. Yes, Kornheiser has been around DC for a long time and still works here for the post. But Kornheiser is from Long Island, New York. So he's probably a Jets fan at heart, he just doesn't wear it on his sleeve like many other announcers.

People take Charles Barkley too serious. He'll throw out a ton of crazy shit, and half of it is typically pretty funny. Comparing Donovan McNabb to Peyton Manning is ridiculous, but still.

[BrudLee]

I've accepted that celebs are going to show up in the booth. It's a marketing concern that offsets the hundreds of millions the networks are paying. Barkley was there for far too long, and it detracted from the game, though.

Get on TV, sell what you're selling. Get off TV. It's pretty simple.

[BrudLee]

I think the team in the booth is fine. Tirico shouldn't have to be a director - he's a play-by-play guy. Kornheiser goes off topic, but he's good when he's on, and he doesn't talk over action (when there isn't a guest in the booth). Jaws is knowlegdable and doesn't feel the need to be 100% correct - he listens to his boothmates (something Joey T didn't seem to do).

[freddyg12]

glad that I'm not alone in being annoyed by a lack of coverage on the game. I like Barkley & he was funny, but he said the same thing about 3 different ways. Maybe they had a hard time getting him to leave the booth.

I think they do the celeb thing for people that watch the games but aren't big fans of either team. Never much cared for it even if it's not the skins playing.

[BleedBurgundy]

As bad as the Eagle knob polishing was, Kornheiser has no credibility as a commentator when he talks about being a Redskins fan. What's the problem with impartiality? And MY GOD, could they fit any more commercials in there?

[onlydarksets]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Yep, ESPN is all over Philly's nutz of course.

Everyone except Tom Jackson picked the Eagles. A lot of eggs on the face at ESPN tonight.

I saw that - that is a beautiful thing!

I wouldn't mind the coverage if they would just shut up when the game is being played and actually show the game instead of the idiots in the box.

There was one point where they were jabbering away and showing the booth, and after they missed an entire play Tirico goes "Oh, and Washington called a timeout, too". They really dropped the ball on that one. Of course, I guess they figured it was going to be a pretty bad game. Still, they get paid to do this - do it right!

[wushawn]

AGREE 100%!!! Im not one to talk about the skins getting respect, i could care less as long as we win, but there were 2 teams playing last nite. All they talked about was the falling out of McNabb and how "HE" was losing the game. Given he wasnt accurate but we also came up with some big hits that they failed to mention that removed the ball from the reciever. It drove me CRAZY how looooooong they had Barkely on. I thought i was watching the tonight show dude

[redsk1]

I love to listen to Charles Barkley b/c usually he is spot on and he tell's it like it is, not caring for the consequences however....

I was going to start this thread before i saw it had already been posted. The ESPN coverage was horrible. How about talking about what's on the field? They spent so much time talking about Andy Reid, the Philly fans, etc. We missed about a quarter of football. Some things i just don't think we need to know about, like Reid's kids getting in trouble. No replay on the excellent ST hit. They barely mentioned that Smoot was out. They barely mentioned who started in his place.

It's not Barkley's fault they brought him in the booth and asked him to talk. Let's focus on the game.

I don't know about anyone else but i counted two times when announcers didn't know Jason's last name (pregame). Come on...