Worst and Best NFL Commentators (school, player, high school, move to)

[point80]

The good:
Collinsworth
Long
Tirico
Berman
Aikman
Bradshaw
M Irvin


The horid:
Herm Edwards (just other-worldy bad)
Merril Hoge
The entire NFL network operation, especially the lead Eisen and Sapp
Dungy

[YAZ]

Originally Posted by Garfunkle524

Some of John Madden's best insights:

"The team that puts the most points on the board is gonna win this game"

"He came close to getting pantsed"

"The offensive line are the biggest guys on the field. They're bigger than everyone else, which makes them the biggest guys on the field"

"When you don't win, you lose"

"The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage"

"When you have great players playing great, that's great football"

The turkey leg presentations were great.

Gotta love the tur-duck-en.

[Texas User]

How come Chris Berman does not do commentary?

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by Garfunkle524

I think they should get away from using former players and move toward using journalists again. While there's no doubt that a former player's insight is valuable, I would prefer to hear from someone who is actually good at calling a game and can analyze from an outside perspective. Journalists have spent their whole career analyzing the game's finer details, players spent most of it on the field.

Best comment on the thread. This includes the game call and the in-studio analysis.

[DRob4JC]

Originally Posted by kidphilly

As a lifelong Eagles fan as difficult as it is to say I think Aikman and Moose do a fantastic job in the booth

I always enjoy Aikman talking about the beatings he took from the Eagles.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by mouzon

The horid:
The entire NFL network operation, especially the lead Eisen and Sapp

Warren Sapp is a punk. I'm actually glad the NFL Network isn't available where I am.

[DRob4JC]

For the most part, most of them are middle of the road - one leaves, another is added - whatever, it's all the same.

The one's that stand out...

Madden, Summerall
Michaels w/ whomever
Jin Nantz

Gus Johnson - maybe not for your #1 game - but put him on a 2nd tier game with a lot of offense
(by the way, was Johnson calling the Cardinal game last week? I could have sworn that receiver that was wide open tripped on a sprinkler head...)

Michael Irvin -good content, not delivery (Deion has infected him, along w/ Eisen - Mariucci seems to have avoided the extreme silliness)

Jaworski - good content, could be better with better surroundings

Gruden - please exit

Berman - update your style - he does work well with Jackson

[Count David]

Originally Posted by Texas User

How come Chris Berman does not do commentary?

There aren't really many spots for him to the "backbackbackbackbackback" thing in football.

[Texas User]

Originally Posted by David Aguilar

There aren't really many spots for him to the "backbackbackbackbackback" thing in football.

He does the NFL high lights though. 'He may go all the way!'

[FBJ]

Originally Posted by IXCell

Absolutely, positively dont like Mike Ditka (I have said this in other threads)--he is the worst, never adds anything to the broadcast. Too me, maybe outside of Berman (whose schtick is sooooo old), no one else is even close to how bad Ditka is.

Funny, I like Ron Jaworski. I dont mind Collinsworth either. Tirico is great.

Gruden, meh.

Is it just me or does Ditka act like someone is forcing him to be on ESPN? He talks like he doesn't want to be there and looks very annoyed.