I just feel like ranting about this. My field is in media, and I work with aspiring reporters and broadcasters all the time. I also pay a lot of attention to how games are televised and directed.
First of all, Fox still hasn't adapted the timeout bars. If you don't know what that is, they're three little bars added to the scoring graphics to let you know how many timeouts are left for each team. All the other networks have it. But Fox does have a big dancing robot. Yay.
Apart from the fact that the Jets lost, the entire broadcast was terrible. The announcers kept getting cut off as they would go to commercial. The plays they were talking about weren't getting shown. The earliest example I can think of was a play in which the color commentator was praising Woodhead's block. He kept talking about the block, and they kept showing the receiver's catch.
Other examples were the dumb penalties. Thomas Jones got flagged, and we only saw like two seconds of it. Alan Faneca's late flag seemed ticky tacky to me, but there was no discussion about it. We only saw it once, and that was it.
Even the preseason game coverage with Greg Buttle and Ian Eagle is better than this.
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