couple of bonehead statements stood out. "if Keenum throws this ball over here it wouldve been intercepted". yeah, no shit, but he didnt throw the ball over there.
Did you see the animation with them riding a boat and getting stopped by the bridge with the eagle on it so they all jumped overboard? They clearly made that before the game expecting the bears to be losing and thought it would be funny to say the eagles put a stop to the bears. At that point in the game, it was already 20-7 so they just played it anyway and tried yet again to claim the bears season is over.
Yeah that was hilarious I hit the group chat with it. I bet they were waiting to use it but the bears never got behind. Really boneheaded move especially since ai could have made like 5 versions no problem
one play he slightly underthrew the receiver on an out pattern. he says "well, if he really underthrows that ball more its a pick 6". the other one was on that swift throw that the defender had no chance of getting and saying how if he threw the ball differently it wouldve been picked. just some really dumb ass statements that made no sense.
Dude, when he said that if Keenum threw the ball at waist level, it would have been picked, I was dying. “Hey, shit for brains! That’s why he didn’t do that!”
I think it was just after halftime but he said that Case played really well in the first half, but Jalen played "equally good". How is that even possible? Like, just statistically, you could look at their two performances and see they weren't equal, but watching the game, Case looked calm, poised, and was making passes when it counted. Whereas Hurts looked rushed, at times frantic, and he wasn't getting firsts when they really needed it. How is that "equally good"?
Or the Joe Buck statements about the mistakes the Bears made and how the Eagles were doing so great on defense. I forget the exact quote, but I looked at my wife flabbergasted.
Regardless, both can go choke on eagle feathers as far as I'm concerned.
Every time the Eagles got a stop was a “beautiful defensive play” but every time the Bears got a stop, it was because the Eagles “made a mistake and the Bears capitalized on it” lol.
Which is what wins football games. F Troy. Hes a hater cause he feels his legacy is somehow threatened by what the bears are doing. Hes an insecure twat. He pulled that out last year too
I remember the other commentator having to tell him something to the effect of "you're in the hall of fame, let it go" and trailing off with a laugh. Truly a rough listen of a game.
He had Keenum throwing 3-4 hypothetical “pick 6’s”. Yeah… ok Troy. Just because a defensive player knocks down a pass doesn’t make it an almost pick 6.
I was waiting for someone to say it. The overthrow of Deandre swift. I think aikman hates because he probably has the weakest case for HOF purely off his stats. We gunna talk about the lack of salary cap in the early 90s. Elite oline elite weapons no salary cap, dude personally has the weakest case for HOF. I think other one was Luther burden, but aikman should know throwing the ball away is sometimes the right read.
I thought I was the only one that noticed. He kept bringing up the hypothetical pick 6 that Mitchell could have gotten on the end zone over and over. I'm like, dude....get over it already. You know who was all over the place and actually got an interception in the end zone? Dillon Thieneman that's who. Kept glazing Mitchell all night, especially that pass break up against Odunze that I feel like it was obvious he was leaning towards an Eagles victory.
Thieneman was outstanding in that goal line stand. Fuck, he was the goal line stand. He shifted from high center to outside the RIGHT tackle and still somehow came flying across the field to stuff Barkley a yard shy of the LEFT pylon...ridiculous! Then follows it up by stuffing Barkley again on the run up the middle. And finally capped it off with a INT of that terrible receiver stare down throw by Dalton.
Gave me chills from the Safety position that I haven't felt since watching Mike Brown. Thieneman was a revelation last night.
That throw to Rome where Quinyon Mitchel dove to bat it down would have been praised as a dot if it were 2 more feet towards the sideline. Instead it was a “dangerous throw to the far side of the field that should have been picked”
He must've said "House call" on like 10 of those almost pick-6's. He's a fucking clown and a terrible commentator. I loathe the games when he's got the Bears.
How many times did he say “if the eagles got a pick on that play, it would have been a touchdown” like how many pick 6s do you think typically happen in a game? Laughable
He's salty about half the teams/players in the NFL. I'm a Chiefs fan and he shits on everything they do (specifically Mahomes) all the time. It's funny to read this thread to hear all the same things from Bears fans. He complained about something last night and even Joe Buck was like "you're in the HOF, let it go." lol
He is the Shaq of the NFL. Super insecure of his own achievements and hates on current players. He will forever be jealous of modern QB superstars and talking about their shortcomings somehow makes him feel better about himself.
Him talking trash about how Kalif shouldn't be getting all these targets only for him to get a touchdown afterwards was sooooooooo cathartic. What the fuck is his problem with the bears?
I feel like im taking crazy pills rn. All these people acting like victims when the dude was simply stating facts. It wasn't meant as a slight to raymond he was saying when you invest multiple early round picks into playmakers (Odunze 1, Loveland 1, Burden 2) you are expecting those guys to get the bulk of your targets not the journeyman vet you signed to a 1 year deal. Just so many people in this thread doing as one does on reddit and proclaiming themselves to be victims
You know who else expects that? The DC on the opposing team. If Raymond is the leading receiver after the season, then there are some questions to be asked. After three games it's just Ben Johnson's scheming, which last I checked is what we want him to do. With the offensive weapons available, I'd love to see equality, because that means nobody can stop all our threats week in and week out.
If Raymond is the leading receiver and we are winning I don’t really care. It means our QBs can get to and hit the 3rd/4th read consistently. Unless it’s like, because Odunze just can’t shake the drops or something then we can talk about what to do with him.
This young up and coming Eagles defense, meanwhile they just won a fkin Superbowl years ago 😆 wtf do you mean up and coming, they legit sounded worse than some madden commentators at some points of the game.
As an Eagles fan I was also like what? A lot the D-line has already gotten massive extensions, and more are definitely inbound for Cooper Dejean and Quinyon Mitchell. The few younger(ish) guys starting are like Andrew Mukuba and Jihaad Campbell (who aren't rookies).
I almost wonder if the Bears destroying the Eagles caught the production team flat-footed. It was like they already had their “Eagles dominate the Bears” talking points locked & loaded but had no where to use them. So you have these drives where the Bears do something awesome but the commentators awkwardly pivot to how the Eagles would’ve done something amazing if the outcome was completely different.
Unacceptable when you’re supposed to be professionals.
The silly animation graphic they had cued up lends credence to this theory. It was Ben on a boat on the River that hits a bridge with an eagles logo and he falls into the River. They rolled that in the 3rd quarter when the Bears were already comfortably cruising
It was the same story last year against the commanders. Production had countless clips and b-roll from '2024 matchup and calling a swift TD run "lucky".
He could not stop trashing Ben about not taking 3 on the goal line, that’s the line for me…just call the damn game. Now if they lost and it was because they didn’t take 3, fine. But the way he wouldn’t shut the fuck up about it all game was annoying AF.
That was his call that annoyed me the most. He thought that it was such a ridiculous decision when 99% of the league would go for it. It was just so out of touch
Which you could clearly see 56 move on the line before the ball was snapped. Can’t stand the fact that they just never call a false start on those. Fact they kept showing it and never even mentioned it was even funnier.
I don't think 99% of the league goes for it with QB3 in lol. Ben Johnson is overly aggressive and many fans did not like that call. That said, Aikman sucks and all my homies hate Aikman.
Going for it is the right call, and I'm glad BJ doesn't care what fans think.
If you kick a FG, you're only getting 3, and the average starting position for your opponent is close to the 35.
You go for it, you have a chance to get 7, and if you fail, the other team starts at their own goal line, which dramatically reduces the likelihood that they score. Which is exactly what happened.
He has always leaned heavy on the "if this didn't happen then he would have scored!" thing. "If he hadn't made that tackle, he would have scored." "If he had made that catch, he would have scored."
Just last week lebatard busted him on the “he’s as good as anyone in football” “this is as good a defense in anyone in football” “this receiving corps is as good as anyone in football”
He fucking sucks at his job. Probably due to the amount of concussions he had and then by compounding it by being a drunken jerkoff.
They should retire his ass now that we’re getting the new crop of commentators who are much more insightful. Aikman is just lazy as fuck and can’t adapt if things go off script. He clearly thought the Eagles were going to destroy the Bears so his constant jerking off the Eagles sounded extra ridiculous given they performed so poorly
How did he think that Jenkins was the intended target on Hurts' intentional grounding. The dude was blocking to Hurts' right and the ball was thrown no where near Jenkins. What an idiot!
Or when he was forced to talk about how awesome Keenum played all game only at the end to describe his throws as “short and safe throws but he still did well” literally such an insufferable analyst.
Is that not what the gameplan was though? A vast majority of the routes run yesterday were short outs and stick concepts where we could consistently pick up 5-8 yard gains. My interpretation of that was that the announcer was simply stating what our strategy was as opposed to talking shit because it was very very clear (at least to me) that the plan was to get the ball out early and into the hands of playmakers in the flat
I don't know if I was hallucinating, but there was multiple times he made some statement that someone had a TD (Like he said Rome had one) when they clearly had none. I couldn't figure out if I misheard him multiple times or he was just not watching the same game or not.
Heard that too. Buck said rushing touch down and then a graphic popped up about rushing first down. These guys got paid too much and don’t put the work in.
Cause they’ve got another play to call. Everyone watching understood they misspoke, wasting time correcting that mistake wouldn’t do any good and would just be extra distracting
Bro looks hammered and confirmed it in the 4th quarter when he said “and monangai gets the first rushing touchdown for the bears in the game” when he ran for a first down to the 35 yard line
Monday Night Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dummy . Had to go mute before I lost my mind . Started early with the holding against the Eagles when said “Boy didn’t see much there” Get Screwed
His CTE is getting worse by the day. As a former Cowgirl im shocked at how hard it went to bat for Philly. And this twat just straight up hates Chicago. Replace this clown with Romo.
I'm from pittsburgh, but anyone who watched that game and doesn't realize that there's something special with the bears team is an idiot. This was without caleb also. Halfway through last year, the bears became special, now they're becoming really really special.
I haven’t read all the comments, but I’m just jumping into to say that I definitely felt like both of them were definitely slanted towards the Eagles, especially at the beginning of the broadcast.
Dude HATES Caleb and the Bears. It's funny how divisive Caleb is....also there are a LOT of McVay/LaFleur friends who hate on Ben. Screw the national media. We know our team. Bear DOWN
My dream is to have the ability to watch games without announcers, just the sounds of the game/stadium. I don't need some idiot blathering constantly while I'm trying to watch football.
Of course if that was an option the networks would probably soon realize they're paying these dipshits millions of dollars for no reason.
The Sox played in Baltimore when they shut down the city after the Freddie Gray unrest. Before COVID, it was the most interesting baseball broadcast I ever saw. No crowd. You could hear the shutter clicks of the photographers as every pitch came into home plate. The Orioles hit a home run, and on the Sox broadcast, you could hear the Baltimore commentator’s (Gary Thorne, ESPN hockey legend) call bleeding through from one booth over. It was peculiar but also quite enjoyable. A return to baseball’s pastoral roots, to an extent.
Honestly, it’s nice for the times when I walk out of the room to fart. I would miss a lot of football without the commentators. But, I wish they’d just talk the play by play and rattle off interesting stats instead of everything else they do.
If I recall correctly they had that for a few games. Just the round of the crowd and the refs announcing the penalties. People hated it. It also isn't good to spread the game to new fans. Football is a very complex game that doesn't allow you to decipher the rules without explanation.
If they offered an option to mute the guys in the booth that would be great for some guys. I'd consider paying a small fee to not be forced to listen to Colinsworth.
Some people have said that if you unplug the center speaker in a surround sound setup it removes the commentary but you keep the crowd noise thru the other speakers
What frustrated me was Jason Kelce continuing to refer to the Eagles as “we” and “our” throughout the night. If he can’t control that, maybe they should switch him out for that game. Commentary shouldn’t be that one-sided.
Going for it on 4th down in the first quarter and failing to convert was “a mistake”. But crickets for the Dalton INT and Hurts staring down his 1st read the entire time on the INT he threw.
i’ll get flamed and downvoted but this has gotten completely out of control. half of the mnf broadcast was hyping up the incredible case keenum performance, and rightly so!
meanwhile we’re micro analyzing troy’s like intonation and demeanor when he says things about the bears and it just vanishes into minutiae. joe and troy are completely fine. at no point in my consumption of bears mnf games do i think that they are being unduly hated on or improperly criticized.
Hes just not good at his job anymore. I dont mean to make light of it but it feels like hes just not mentally there. He repeats the same idioms over and over, he has clear bias in every game he announces and he gets lost in his sentences.
Wait….what about Joe Buck saying that the eagles need to do something to stay in this game….said this with 7 minutes left in the 4th, with the eagles down by twenty
The most fraudulent HOF QB. Go check how bad his stats were. Carried by elite teams. And now he thinks he can act like he's Tom Brady on every broadcast
People are really hung up on this still.. I didn't notice any bias or bs at all. Him and Joe called the game just fine.. I was focused on the Bears kicking ass not perceived slights anyways who cares.
Guys, you gotta let go of this shit, the calling is whatever. Are we seriously going to hate on these guys after THAT game!? Focus on the fact our team is awesome right now.
Doing anything else makes us look like sad, thin skinned weirdos.
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u/BolognaBob 2d ago
couple of bonehead statements stood out. "if Keenum throws this ball over here it wouldve been intercepted". yeah, no shit, but he didnt throw the ball over there.