Sean McDonough and Chris Spielman - broadcasters this Saturday

[ColoradoHAWKEYE]

I respectfully disagree. Galloway needed to shut his face on that issue.

He had no idea on several critical decision-making factors, such as: (1) how the two QBs practiced that week; (2) whether there was a specific defensive weakness that the staff recognized that would be better exploited by CJB; (3) whether it was a planned substitution or otherwise; (4) whether Rud asked to come out of the game for a series; or (5) how the concept of subbing in CJB was received in practice by CJB, JR, and the rest of the team. I could go on ad nauseum.

There are a number of scenarios in which replacing your starting QB for one or more series is not disrespecting the starter or otherwise showing a vote of no-confidence in the starter.

Galloway jumped the gun on this one, in my opinion.

Hello....this and what was added subsequently. Plus he went on about it....poor commentary.

 

[Sooby]

I am not normally a fan of Galloway, but I thought he did a good job on Rudock's last 2 drives of predicting how the Iowa Line was dominating so much that Rudock could stand back all day and just wait for a receiver to get open. And he was exactly right. Give Rudock credit for being patient enough too, but Galloway's analysis strangely gave me confidence on Iowa's last drive and probably explains why Rudock had so much confidence too (not because of Galloway, but because the offensive line was dominating)

Galloway also did a good job of explaining why Powell's TD catch was not a catch and would be overturned. He was absolutely right about that too, which you would expect, since Galloway was an all-star WR.

I will agree that that the Beth Mowins production team is awful. Very slow in identifying players and did not notice that Beathard was in the game until 3rd down, but at least she recovered and had lots to say about Beathard after she actually noticed he was in the game.

Agreed. Joey Galloway still seems uncomfortable as a broadcaster, but the content was better than before.
It's amazing how Joey (WR) and Chuck (QB) are saying that same thing about Jake.

At least I won't hear YAAARRRRRRDDDDDDDD multiple times from Beth Mowins this Saturday.

Sean and Chris are the best team, and I forgot about the Raftery things that Speilman used to do.
Chris Fowler basically said that I'm your PBP guy for Saturday Night Football, or I'm leaving, and ESPN caved.

 

[MelroseHawkins]

Cool.

 

[HawksMN]

IDK, all I hear in my nightmares is McDonough making that fake punt call WI did on us a few years back in our 31-30 loss.

 

[enmaster]

I've always liked McDonough- one of my top 2 college football announcers (the other is Musburger, however I refuse to ever ever ever watch SEC net). Speaking of which- for those who have seen SNF, how is Fowler doing with Herbstreit?

 

[guffus]

Fowler is decent, just not worthy of the #1 spot on the network.