Comments on: McDaniels takes a shot at NFL Network

By: as big as a hat

as big as a hat — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:58:11 +0000

Come om, Mike. You like NFLN because they “interview” you on those “Best 10 whatever of all time” shows.

By: WashingtonRedstorms

WashingtonRedstorms — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:59:31 +0000

"two mice fell in a bucket of cream!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud74XZOjG0o

By: skolvikes

skolvikes — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:51:10 +0000

How didn’t they catch that? Did I read that was pre recorded on top of it all?
What kind of network lets that happen on Thanksgiving? How many young adults look up to these players and coaches and think thats cool now? I guess this place needs to keep the future trolls coming….

By: TD4HOF

TD4HOF — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:57:09 +0000

I’m an NFLN addict so it hurts to say that the broadcasts suck. Eisen is getting old. He’s like an annoying chihuahua, yapping on and on. They should turn the whole network over to the Playbook crew. Mike Mayock is the man. I could listen to him talk about knitting. Put him and brian billick in the booth for three hours and you’ll know more about football than Al Davis has forgotten the past three years. Through in Sterling Sharpe for color commentary and you’ve got a great team.

By: Slow Joe

Slow Joe — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:55:02 +0000

All I’m trying to do is make a motherf#$&ing post!

By: PARavensJeff

PARavensJeff — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:36:12 +0000

Hey Florio, The NFLN is a cable channel, so they can get away w/ foul language o ver the air, but did this “recordered” piece aair on the over the air channels in Denver & NY? That is the big question Florio because that invites in the FCC, can’t believe you didn’t catch that!! Also, since this was recorded, why wasn’t it caught? The regular Thursday night football employees had off for Thanksgiving so they brought in temps to do the job? Come on Florio, I realize it’s your favorite channel after your BFF’s @ NBC, but you need to go after them on this 1.

By: DJSlyBri

DJSlyBri — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:23:41 +0000

I blame George W. Bush. Everything is his fault.

By: CKL

CKL — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:52:51 +0000

Jon Snow says: November 27, 2009 10:21 AM
Maybe everybody should go back and listen to the question that was asked at the press conference.
I’m paraphrasing, but it was something like: “What do you think of the NFL Network HAVING TO APOLOGIZE for the accidental airing of your sideline expletive?”
His COMPLETE answer (again paraphrasing): “THAT’S FOOTBALL.” (i.e. cussing and football go hand in hand) and then the “It’s the NFL Network. It doesn’t surprise me.”
Might it be that he was commending the NFL Network for apologizing not only for their goof, but also for his “goof”? He wasn’t about to apologize for something that’s part of the game (That’s football), but fully expected the NFL Network to do so. Like he said, it didn’t surprise him because he feels the NFL Network would own up to their mistake.
That’s just the way I see it.
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Good point, I hadn’t thought of that.
I like JM but sometimes he does come across as a bit cocky though.

By: bbq

bbq — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:41:35 +0000

purplepuzzyeatrz said:
“LOL, how about Shannon Sharpe….azibbadabadoozibabazadazoboby….can anyone understand a word he says???”
hahaha it’s funny cause it’s true!
and yeah, I want to pull my hair out listening to Collinsworth. He makes playing Madden 10 just a little less fun.

By: SFrancis1680

SFrancis1680 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:39:59 +0000

reading these comments about the NFL Network makes me wonder WHO has more douche bags talking about football, NFL Network OR ESPN?

By: Mactator

Mactator — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:33:10 +0000

Who cares! The game was late at night and I’m sure it wasn’t the first time an “innocent” child would have heard those words! It’s not like showing bombs flying all over the place and killing thousands of people on prime time…. oh yeah, shock and awe! My bad!
You got to love hypocrisy!

By: JSpicoli

JSpicoli — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:29:43 +0000

At least we have Thursday night football. Something we didn’t used to enjoy.

By: tinfish

tinfish — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:24:47 +0000

McD had to upstage Adam Lampert. Dude needs a pill or something

By: wallyworld

wallyworld — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:13:46 +0000

ESPN just announced that Tom Cable was responsible for teaching McDaniels bad words.

By: sven_ftw

sven_ftw — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:42:19 +0000

it’s not napoleon’s fault that nfl network’s coverage sucks….

By: CliveRush

CliveRush — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:38:39 +0000

A few years ago a game was broadcast without the constant idiotic and useless commentary from the “men in the booth”. The fan heard the sounds from the field and the sidelines. At first I thought that there was a glitch but the play by play announcer spoke a few words at the end of the half. This continued in the second half. It was great. We need more sounds from the field and less from the booth. We need more video coverage of the field between plays during change of personal and less of coaches and players showing emotion. There is to much time away from the big picture of what is happening on the field and too much showing the predetermained script of the network and their storyline stooges. If a coach swears at the players, well that is a part of the game.

By: Scoop

Scoop — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:36:21 +0000

NFLn spent an entire offseason mocking and ridiculing the Broncos– Josh McD and Kyle Orton in particular. They’d sit around and have circle jerks on how incompetent McD was and how worthless Kyle Orton was. They’d just stop short of lighting each others farts and punching each other in the shoulder. It went well below the standards of acceptable journalism– even when you factor in the NFL media qualifier. It was clearly personal and it went unabated. Anybody that paid close attention would realize that it exposed the utter lack of talent and character on that network, and any success of McD or Orton is a frontal attack on the very credibility of the operation. Yet the rest of the NFL media lemmings are far more interested in covering each other’s six and agreeing in mass– I guess its a risk aversion tactic; the idea being that when y’all are wrong you can declare ‘everybody’ wrong– than they are regulating themselves. Long story short, its not surprising that the rest of the media is already accepting the network’s ‘apology’ at face value and subtly suggesting that Crazy Josh is paranoid or something by ignoring what is clear: This was yet another calculated attempt to embarrass a man that’s made fools of the whole lot of you. It seems to have backfired.
What’s funnier is the inability of the NFL media to pick up nuance…like how Rich Eisen, right after McD’s comments, immediately understood exactly what he is saying: “If by any means McD is insinuating…” It reminded me of my potty training daughter, who likes to say, “I not have poop in my pants, daddy”, just after she has loaded a diaper with the smelly stuff.
The NFL ought to be ashamed of its network and maybe this incident will finally start opening some eyes.

By: Boyzfan94

Boyzfan94 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:24:48 +0000

C’mon..really?…is it that big of a deal… its freaking cable television..there is more cursing going on regular televison programming. Don’t mike the players and coaches up if you don’t expect to hear some vulgar language, especially on the side line when the coach is pissed as hell they just had 3 offside penalities on the same drive….as far as Matt Millen he is ok, but how many freaking times did we hear him talk about Orton calling out the Mike LB……

By: BenRapistberger

BenRapistberger — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:15:09 +0000

Would this be considered a ‘word’robe malfunction? Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck!

By: merrillhodgestoupee

merrillhodgestoupee — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:08:22 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me. One time Bryant Grumbler referred to me as Hank Stram’s toupee.
An Idea for NFL Network. Have the radio teams from both cities announce the gams.
Get rid of grumbler et all.

By: footballrulz

footballrulz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:07:53 +0000

OMG
The world is ending, life as I know it is over.
Fan_of_Four has made an intelligent post. One I agree with. Listen to your kids rap music–it’s much worse.
You go girl

By: Fballguy

Fballguy — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:07:52 +0000

The NFL Network is operating at about 20% efficiency. How funny is it that they copy the ESPN format, showing Total Acess over and over the way ESPN shows Sportscenter. I believe the head douchebag at NFLN came from ESPN and apparently he’s out of good ideas.
It could be and should be so much more. It’s an embarassment to the greatest League in the country. And my comments have nothing to do with last night’s blunder, which I couldn’t care less about.
The NFL Network should change it’s name to “The NFL Since The NFL Network Came Into Existence Network”. Then maybe we could get another network that actually covers the NFL the way it should be, past and present.
Fballguy

By: AutumnWind999

AutumnWind999 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:54:55 +0000

NFL Network is awesome most of the time but their game broadcasts need some work. And Deion is annoying. Who ever decided that Matt Millen was a great color commentator. When the Lions canned him all the networks were tripping over themselves to get Matt Millen on board. Why? I never thought he was anything more than a grade C broadcaster.

By: ncm42

ncm42 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:49:49 +0000

president charlie, I’m not fan of the guy, but I think Millen’s credibility stems from two things: his fairly successful career as an NFL linebacker, and the fact that he was widely regarded as the best up and coming analyst before he left to see how deep he could bury the Lions franchise.

By: cobrala2

cobrala2 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:49:26 +0000

While the game-time coverage from NFLN is terrible, no doubt about it, Playbook and NFL Total Access are quality shows using quality people that KNOW what they’re talking about because they’re almost all former players, half of whom are HOFers.
Maybe some of you dickwads out there that think the utterly mindless dribble on ESPN, with all its hype and bright, shiny segues is good stuff, well, it’s hardly surprising to hear uninformed comments like needing to pay for it (its free on Comcast now), which is not a blanket mandate from NFLN, mixed with comments that slam the NFLN as a whole when it is OBVIOUS the majority of you wagging your tongue have never watched any of its regular programming… y’all are the old school fan and I’m embarassed to patronize the same online blog you do (nomatter how fickle the posting approval process may be around here in a given day/hour/minute/moment).

By: bluenoser

bluenoser — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:48:34 +0000

Rich Eisen is AWESOME!!!!
Marshall Faulk is a douche who still can’t get over the Pats upsetting the Rams in SB XXXVI. He is so biased and should not even be allowed on the network.
Hopefully they will bring back that great segment where Jamie Dukes was a little kid. Not!

By: SFrancis1680

SFrancis1680 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:37:50 +0000

will McDANIELS get fined for his backhanded swipe at the NFL Network? he can’t have a lower opinion of the NFLN than I do, but his comment is refreshing for being candid, an NFL Coach SWEARING on the sidelines during a football game, bet that’s NEVER happened before???

By: eagledan

eagledan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:35:44 +0000

Gee; I didn’t see it, In fact I couldn’t see it.
My Cable Company (Cable One) doesn’t carry it. I have no access to Dish/Direct TV, I never get to see NFLN.

By: i'm president charlie!

i'm president charlie! — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:24:47 +0000

Real emotion on TV?!? OMG! Now that’s reality television.
I love Bob Papa, but I’m biased b/c I listen to “The Opening Drive” w/ him on Sirius Radio every morning. But Matt Millen? What credibility does this guy have besides putting a franchise 15 years behind with terrible draftpicks?
The shows on the NFL Network are awesome, especially “Playbook” and “NFL Replay.” Because of this channel I no longer have to listen to the idiots over @ ESPN who talk out their asses.
Rich Eisen > ESPN

By: Asswipe Johnson (Pronounced Az-Wee-Pay)

Asswipe Johnson (Pronounced Az-Wee-Pay) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:24:17 +0000

“Earlier this year, an audio glitch gave many fans an announcerless game for much of a full quarter.”
What a blessing…too bad all televised NFL games don’t have this problem. I would never need to use the mute button again.