If you watched NBC’s broadcast of Saturday’s Jets-Bengals game, you probably noticed plenty of quirks, errors, and mishaps. To take one example, Joe Gibbs, who was offering color commentary in the booth, didn’t seem to know when to stop talking -- at one point, the broadcast faded to commercial break as Gibbs warbled some sort of half-laughing, half-stuttering utterance.
Jets Blog: What Was Up With NBC’s Broadcast?
Our Jets blog, Gang Green Nation, sheds some light on exactly what was going on here.
NBC only has one game a week during the regular season. That means there's only one regular broadcast team. That means today a patchwork crew has to be assemled to work the second game. It's a difficult task. With that said, this was brutal. Tom Hammond wasn't identifying penalty calls or the guilty party. He referred to Revis as "Darrelle Reeves." He even claimed Brad Smith was under center on a play Mark Sanchez was the quarterback, and the analysts followed suit. The only things Joe Gibbs added were stories from the 1980's. What's up with that? The game hasn't passed him by. I remember him being good as an analyst for NBC back in the 1990's. Two years ago, he took a team quarterbacked by Todd Collins to the Playoffs. And I don't need Charles Barkley in the studio during the pregame show for a Playoff game. How about having football people give analysis?
Be sure to check the rest of the post for more on the Jets’ win.
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