FOX Confirms 2011 NFL Broadcast Teams

[NAHSTE]

He's decent for NFL. Brutal for college games though. I remember when the BCS used to be on FOX, and he called the Boise State/Oklahoma game for the ages. I wanted to reach through the TV and kill him every time he said Jared Zabransky should roll out and run a run/pass option.. which during the game amounted to roughly 1400 times.

Those FOX college crews were the WORST. Barry Alvarez and Charles Davis.

[Hasselbeck]

Apparently, Gus will be calling the Rams/Redskins week 4.

He'll be calling CFB games during the bowl season and it looks like he'll get the low NFL games on the totem pole so .

I'm guessing FOX will have him do games close to wherever he's calling a college game.

Seems like they're trying to bolster their NCAA coverage instead of doing the 2nd/3rd best NFC game of the week for FOX. Which makes sense.

Still.. sucks not having Gus do 16 NFL games.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Those FOX college crews were the WORST. Barry Alvarez and Charles Davis.

It's because they don't do games all year and then parachute in for the week.

It's the reason I hate watching baseball on national TV. Somebody like Orel Hershiser knows nothing about the Reds.

[Hasselbeck]

It's because they don't do games all year and then parachute in for the week.

It's the reason I hate watching baseball on national TV. Somebody like Orel Hershiser knows nothing about the Reds.

Eh.. disagree with this. At least in regards to the BCS matchups. Those games are announced at least a month before the game is actually played. PLENTY of time to do your homework on 2 teams...

[Warner2BruceTD]

Eh.. disagree with this. At least in regards to the BCS matchups. Those games are announced at least a month before the game is actually played. PLENTY of time to do your homework on 2 teams...

My point though is that they don't do the homework.

Somebody like Charles Davis or Thom Bennaman do NFL games all year, then they show up the week of the game and go to a couple of production meetings.

[EmpireWF]

It's because they don't do games all year and then parachute in for the week.

It's the reason I hate watching baseball on national TV. Somebody like Orel Hershiser knows nothing about the Reds.

Forgot where I heard it suggested once by someone, what would you think if they did this for the MLB playoffs?

You take one PBP guy from one of the teams and a color guy from the other and let them work the series. Not sure how you'd choose which PBP or color guy but it would help solve the problem of having shitty commentary because the guys don't know anything about the teams.

[NAHSTE]

Eh.. disagree with this. At least in regards to the BCS matchups. Those games are announced at least a month before the game is actually played. PLENTY of time to do your homework on 2 teams...

Yeah but I'd much rather have a true college crew doing those games, not a fucking pretender like Charles Davis.

Even his draft "analysis" on NFL Network shows you he knows next to nothing about college football. Plus it's not just the talent, it's also the production crews, directors, etc. who had no idea how to produce a college game either. Way different rhythm than an NFL game and FOX blew it every single time.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Forgot where I heard it suggested once by someone, what would you think if they did this for the MLB playoffs?

You take one PBP guy from one of the teams and a color guy from the other and let them work the series. Not sure how you'd choose which PBP or color guy but it would help solve the problem of having shitty commentary because the guys don't know anything about the teams.

Interesting, but it's too hard for these guys not too root. The tension in those booths would be thick.

[Hasselbeck]

My point though is that they don't do the homework.

Somebody like Charles Davis or Thom Bennaman do NFL games all year, then they show up the week of the game and go to a couple of production meetings.

You know what I remember about those makeshift BCS crews? They actually used their crap NFC West 4PM matchups as "tune-ups" for those games. I remember Brennaman-Alvarez-Davis doing a Seahawks/Cardinals game and me wanting to slit my wrists.. it was so bad. Alvarez had no effin' clue what was going on.

But yeah, I agree with what you said. Although the first year they picked up the rights to every BCS game aside from the Rose Bowl.. their main crew was not an NFL crew - so they did have ample time to prepare for it. Which made FOX's BCS presentation that much worse. As NAHSTE touched on.. they botched so much of that.

ABC/ESPN is so much better at calling college games.. and I'm assuming that's why FOX decided to bring in Gus Johnson to bolster that part of their broadcasting.

As an aside, man I am a broadcasting geek. I can't believe I remember all this shit.

[Hasselbeck]

Forgot where I heard it suggested once by someone, what would you think if they did this for the MLB playoffs?

You take one PBP guy from one of the teams and a color guy from the other and let them work the series. Not sure how you'd choose which PBP or color guy but it would help solve the problem of having shitty commentary because the guys don't know anything about the teams.

TBS for the most part did this last postseason. And it basically stunk. I think the only crew I enjoyed was the one where Don Orsillo worked with Buck Martinez (even though I am meh on Martinez).

[NAHSTE]

I think Hass and w2b are the only guys who are bigger broadcasting geeks than I am. I at least have a degree in the subject though.

[Hasselbeck]

I think Hass and w2b are the only guys who are bigger broadcasting geeks than I am. I at least have a degree in the subject though.

BA in Broadcast Journalism here ... which has landed me 0 jobs. lol.

[EmpireWF]

TBS for the most part did this last postseason. And it basically stunk. I think the only crew I enjoyed was the one where Don Orsillo worked with Buck Martinez (even though I am meh on Martinez).

TBS didn't take guys from the teams playing, if I remember right.

The best guy working for TBS during the playoffs was Ron Darling...by far. /nohomer

[Hasselbeck]

TBS didn't take guys from the teams playing, if I remember right.

The best guy working for TBS during the playoffs was Ron Darling...by far. /nohomer

Ah.. now I see what you were getting at. My reading comprehension FTL.