What NFL Analysts Annoy You The Most?

RolandDeschain":30ygbbzm said:

amill87":30ygbbzm said:

I see; what you did there.

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Uh, except that's not what I did there.

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Whoops. Gave you too much credit....

I just wish there weren't so many of them. They used to do fine with just two people on screen, with an occasional aside from an outside commentator.

Now they have to have at least 4, sometimes 5 or 6, and since everybody has to get a chance to pontificate the shows have been extended FAR longer than they need to actually cover the content. Then throw in 'special comments' from some failed comedian just for grins. Sorry, but their failed attempts to make the pre/post-games shows 'entertaining' kind of ruins it for me.

So I guess I agree in general. They have seriously diluted the talent pool available.

amill87":2vajx2zs said:

Whoops. Gave you too much credit....

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It happens; I understand.

Bastards. The lot of you.

RolandDeschain":vu3rwet2 said:

amill87":vu3rwet2 said:

Whoops. Gave you too much credit....

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It happens; I understand.

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Did we just become best friends?

So this is what it feels like to poke a grammar Nazi repeatedly with a stick. Interesting...

@amill: BFFs4lyfe, yo.

sutz":32qv6y80 said:

I just wish there weren't so many of them. They used to do fine with just two people on screen, with an occasional aside from an outside commentator.

Now they have to have at least 4, sometimes 5 or 6, and since everybody has to get a chance to pontificate the shows have been extended FAR longer than they need to actually cover the content. Then throw in 'special comments' from some failed comedian just for grins. Sorry, but their failed attempts to make the pre/post-games shows 'entertaining' kind of ruins it for me.

So I guess I agree in general. They have seriously diluted the talent pool available.

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Yeah. It's fed for the constant thirst of football that we all have though.

Plus I think a lot of football players realize they have no other talents so they have to go back to what they know. Problem is they aren't journalists so they basically are just tv personalities portrayed as experts.

Dilfer is an interesting one. The guy is actually really football smart, and has the potential to be a good analyst. The problem is every single thing he says or does has an agenda. Dilfer's agenda priority list looks something like this:
1. Promote QBR and try to apply it to every conversation.
2. Dig at the Hawks. (Which I honestly don't understand.)
3. Support the Niners

His other issue is the way he backpedals and completely 180s to the other extreme when proven wrong. Admitting you're wrong is good. What he does is is sad. It's really too bad he's like this, since he's leagues better than mouth breathing buffoons like Heath Evans or Michael Irvin. Those guys are horrible, no matter if they're all picking the Hawks now.

And in case there's any confusion: Screw Dilfer. Worst waste of a flag raiser ever.

volsunghawk":1fq05y60 said:

SacHawk2.0":1fq05y60 said:

volsunghawk":1fq05y60 said:

The ones on this board.

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Don't you dare talk bad about Kearly!

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I don't like how that bastard uses semicolons. :thfight7:

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I use them correctly (or at least they are technically correct, though sometimes just using a period and starting a new sentence might work better). My real problem is run-on sentences, and sometimes a semicolon can be an accomplice to that.

kearly":3rwigj51 said:

volsunghawk":3rwigj51 said:

SacHawk2.0":3rwigj51 said:

volsunghawk":3rwigj51 said:

The ones on this board.

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Don't you dare talk bad about Kearly!

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I don't like how that bastard uses semicolons. :thfight7:

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I use them correctly (or at least they are technically correct, though sometimes just using a period and starting a new sentence might work better). My real problem is run-on sentences, and sometimes a semicolon can be an accomplice to that.

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Comma splices are where it's at, don't you think?

I still use a lot of this ............ too much time on a teletype I suppose ........... back in the day.

Shannon Sharpe. What language is that?

Joe Buck, by a mile.

He's a baseball guy from a baseball family, and he has absolutely no business whatsoever doing the play-by-play for NFL games.

Annoying as hell.

Scottemojo":3h4zxr0p said:

Dan Dierdorf is the worst announcer

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Shows what you know.

Along with Dan Fouts, he's actually always been one of the game's best.

Dierdorf give sound, reasoned analysis of every play, and he doesn't come across as an arrogant football snob when he does it.

Mike Mayock is a good example of a football snob, always taking about what the guy who just caught the last pass ran at the combine, where scouts thought the guy would go in the Draft, what the guy ate for dinner the night before the Draft.

No one gives a spit about any of that, Mike "the NFL's Dick Vitale": JUST CALL THE DAMNED GAME.

rottweiler":2k7astq0 said:

Joe Buck, by a mile.

He's a baseball guy from a baseball family, and he has absolutely no business whatsoever doing the play-by-play for NFL games.

Annoying as hell.

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And despite that, he's somehow even worse at baseball.

KK84":3abjrym3 said:

rottweiler":3abjrym3 said:

Joe Buck, by a mile.

He's a baseball guy from a baseball family, and he has absolutely no business whatsoever doing the play-by-play for NFL games.

Annoying as hell.

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And despite that, he's somehow even worse at baseball.

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So true.

rottweiler":23rqkrhb said:

Joe Buck, by a mile.

He's a baseball guy from a baseball family, and he has absolutely no business whatsoever doing the play-by-play for NFL games.

Annoying as hell.

Scottemojo":23rqkrhb said:

Dan Dierdorf is the worst announcer

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Shows what you know.

Along with Dan Fouts, he's actually always been one of the game's best.

Dierdorf give sound, reasoned analysis of every play, and he doesn't come across as an arrogant football snob when he does it.

Mike Mayock is a good example of a football snob, always taking about what the guy who just caught the last pass ran at the combine, where scouts thought the guy would go in the Draft, what the guy ate for dinner the night before the Draft.

No one gives a spit about any of that, Mike "the NFL's Dick Vitale": JUST CALL THE DAMNED GAME.

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I guess we just disagree, because Mayock is one of my favorites.

That's what I know. Did it show?

Thunderhawk":xihtvmh8 said:

Shannon Sharpe. What language is that?

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I don't know either. He's completely unintelligible.

Thunderhawk":m1oiwrby said:

Shannon Sharpe. What language is that?

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Elway must have taught him how to speak horse.

SacHawk2.0":jjil7qbh said:

Marshall Faulk. He sucks.

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Agreed

Sarlacc83":8sxij39m said:

kearly":8sxij39m said:

volsunghawk":8sxij39m said:

SacHawk2.0":8sxij39m said:

Don't you dare talk bad about Kearly!

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I don't like how that bastard uses semicolons. :thfight7:

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I use them correctly (or at least they are technically correct, though sometimes just using a period and starting a new sentence might work better). My real problem is run-on sentences, and sometimes a semicolon can be an accomplice to that.

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Comma splices are where it's at, don't you think?

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I prefer to recklessly split infinitives.