Lenny Dykstra just posted a tweet of a naked Eagles fan showing full frontal and egging on the crowd with a major amount of shrinkage. You have been warned.
Brady retiring again. Weāll see if it lasts this time.
Well at least he decided on his own this time. Canāt say heās p-whipped.
Now plz shitcan Romo and put the GOAT in.
Brady would be awful in the booth
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Iām willing to be wrong since it seems somewhat hard to predict which former players would make good broadcasters, but Iāll put it out there and say Iāll be very surprised if Tom Brady has the charisma necessary to be a great color guy.
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Yeah. Brady is so far gone from the real world. How is he going to connect to anyone.
Romo is great because he played in the league enough to be very knowledgeable but heās also self deprecating.
Maybe Iām wrong but Brady feels like he would be really bad at this job.
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This is my instinct. Guy seems like a legit moron and not super charismatic. Iām assuming heās been on Manning-cast - has he been ok there (obviously itās easier to do for a small segment than for a whole season).
brady will be elite at all of the gameplanning/preparation stuff, maybe mediocre at the other stuff, overall cant see him being much worse than the current crop of commentators
Itās a coinflip at worst that heās un-retiring at least one more time, so Iām not even gonna bother to speculate how heād be in the booth, lol.
Ok lemme stop you right there.
Romo was great for like a month. He either stopped preparing or was told to sound stupid or both.
I think itās also that the game changes and passes retired players by. So right after a QB retires, heās completely up on everything. But give it a few years and heās lost.
Like when Montana, Brees, and Favre watched the Super Bowl. Brees was calling out plays and coverages and you could tell Montana had no idea what he was talking about.
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Why do they pay their announcers $30+ million (which is the Brady rumor). NFL seems to be the most captive audience with no real competition, so I donāt see how announcers really matter that much to the bottom line. Sure fans will complain about them, but at most they are just going to mute the channel, donāt think they are going to stop watching or switch to other Sunday programs.
Itās for brand prestige largely. Those numbers are a drop in the bucket in comparison to the size of the rights deals at play. Thatās what John Skipper said (former head of ESPN that now leads LeBatardās startup) while acknowledging the apparent inefficiency in it.
Itās also that you want to show your partners (in this case the NFL) that you are going to present their product as competently as possible. When negotiation time comes you donāt want to bring a Jason Witten to the table year-after-year.
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So is Denver just wealthy incompetence? Apparently they were all in on demeco Ryan but then Ryan went to Carolina so then they trade picks and a hundred plus million for their second choice Sean Payton?
I donāt understand going after Payton if he is your second choice.
Appeasing the fan base while you wait out the Mahomes era seems GTO to me. Trading picks for Payton is insane in a vacuum. But when you consider the current state of their roster, cap situation and draft situation what are you to do?
Doing something that is flashy to keep selling tickets even if you know it is doomed seems better to me than another season of roughly the status quo.
See: The Dallas Cowboys for the last 25 years.