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Gruden sucks anyway. He was overrated as heck as a coach and is overrated AND overpaid as an analyst. He basically won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay with the team that Tony Dungy built and had ready made for him, and AGAINST the Raiders, the team he had just coached the season before and still knew inside-out. Yet he has the nerve to act like a pompous, arrogant, know-it-all. He knows he's overrated too, which is part of the reason why he has never stepped out of the studio or announcers' booth to accept another coaching job again; he'd be exposed as a FRAUD!!!!!
I'm watching the KC-DEN game from last night and can't stand his voice. Is that a southern twang? I know he lives in my city, but no one talks w/ that kind of accent around here....lots of exaggerations of players, too. Usually every player on the field is great.
Gruden was a good coordinator. Was he a good head coach? I dunno, he got the Bucs over a hump that Dungy could not and the Raiders were pretty good under him.
Gruden in short takes is not bad but 4 hrs of MNF is a bit much. It would be better if they had a 3 person team. Give the show some breaks from Gruden.
The oddest thing was the amount of NBA coverage ESPN continued to do AFTER the championship series. I would tune in to shows like Mike and Mike and think WTF is this? The seasons is over and they're still talking - I'm talking weeks afterwards.
I figured they continued to talk because they must have a lot of rights and they're continuing to support the league even after the season despite what their audience might be interested in (preseason NFL, MLB)......
That's pretty much it, when you spend billions and billions on TV rights, almost bidding against yourself in a way and overpaying, no doubt, you will basically need to promote that league 24/7/365 to even try and make any little profit that you can, especially when ratings are in the toilet.
We can all complain and want to believe it has much to do with bad programs and what everyone's personnel preference is as to what they should be showing and not showing. But ultimately its the mega TV deals ESPN is stuck with. They have overpaid for the rights to, in particular the NBA; hence why you see/hear all the coverage you didn't years back in the off-season and early parts of the regular season- it sounds ridiculous that ESPN radio spends more than 5 seconds of an afternoon chatting about these same lame subjects about the Los Angeles Lakers or Lebron James in the middle of football season and the baseball playoffs. It is obvious ESPN is stuck in a corner and in a desperate ploy, wants to shove the NBA down our throats and expect people to care before April and after June.
Here is a list of people that I would like removed/fired from ESPN:
Jemele Hill
Michael Smith
Anita Marks
Tony Kornheiser
Randy Moss
Charles Woodson
They are all fairly useless and replaceable.
And one more thing they need to do is get rid of that sad, sorry, sappy bit they usually show on Sportscenter during the weekend morning editions. Sorry, but I just want to hear about sports and highlights. Not some depressing and sad story about dying soldier or a child with terminal illness. They ham it up by playing the sad music to give giving it a depressing vibe. If you want to air these sad stories keep it on a separate show, not sportscenter.
But you're keeping Will Cain?
OK
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