Random talking head says something about the Bills

[Steptide]

People will disagree with me, but I dislike Collinsworth for the same reason I disliked madden. They just say elementary level stuff. 

[Fan in Chicago]

A few weeks back, QB (I think it was Herbert) scrambling to get a critical first down and get out of bounds 

"Oh myyyy Gawd. There are only a couple of QBs in the league like Mahomes and Jackson who can make a play like that"

 

That was the point when I decided that this guy is a total clueless idiot. The level of stupidity in that statement was monumental 

Edited December 3 by Fan in Chicago

[Sweats]

Oh man, this is coming up ripe for a "Collinsworth comments.........love em or hate em" thread.

[Johnnycage46]

13 hours ago, Roundybout said:

What was up with his hands? It looked like he had deep bruises on the backs of both of them. 

Maybe he had been a reeeeaaaalllyyy naughty boy

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

I enjoyed him yelling "NO! NO!" during the lateral play, like most of his fellow chiefs fans were.

Edited December 3 by JÂy RÛßeÒ

[Dr. K]

Collinsworth can be annoying when he blathers on but the obsessive hate he draws here is near pathological.

Edited December 3 by Dr. K

[Tommy Shelby]

40 minutes ago, Johnnycage46 said:

Maybe he had been a reeeeaaaalllyyy naughty boy

Collinsworth's hands have been like this for at least a year, if not longer. He may be taking high blood pressure meds. The same thing happens to my FIL.

[Simon]

7 hours ago, MJS said:

But my least favorite is Charles Davis. I hate everything about his commentary. Everything.

 

That's weird because he's one of my very favorites.

I used to watch him working with Mayock during the draft way back in the day. He reallllly knew what he was looking at and did his thing with no self-promotion and a lot of smarts and wisdom. A total breath of fresh air when compared to the rest of the media landscape.

[YattaOkasan]

3 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

Jeesus man.  He's not that far from wrong- I don't entirely get the Chris Collinsworth hate.  GR's been a good draft pick- very good, and I hope he gets his next contract with us, because I really like him as a player, but by garsh he's not the only DE in the NFL.  
 

From what I've seen of GR is that he is a better part of our somewhat porous run-defending DL... which is very odd, as talent-wise, I have no idea why our run defense seems to suck- coaching????

 

He's a Tenacious pursuer in all aspects of his assignment- total A on the effort, and a solid B grade as a pass rusher.  it's pretty obvious he disrupts plays like a mamajamma and seems to play harder than his results..

 

Anyway, that's what I see in a small nutshell- hope he retires a Bills all-timer

he has been rated as one of the top run defenders for years though.  15 TFLs this year!  Below is a link to a cover 1 article preview that cites PFF stats (not grades cause yuck) as #1 at run stops as a rookie and top 10 the following year.  I think hes been super productive with sacks still lagging a bit (12th out of all DL in pressures, 2nd in QB hits).  Be ready for him to get $25 mil/year this offseason.

 

Why does our run defense "suck"?  I think we dont care about rushing yards between the 20's.  We play nickel and never have 3 LBs on the field (unless a goaline package for a 3rd/4th and short).  So yes its coaching because rushing yards between the 20's are not a priority.  They stiffen up when it gets to the red zone.  

 

https://www.cover1.net/gregory-rousseau-technique/

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2024/defense_advanced.htm

Edited December 3 by YattaOkasan

[Dopey]

13 hours ago, KingBoots8 said:

Watching the TD lateral again and you can hear him in the background going “No, no, noooo!”

 

What a doofus

An excited yell of “no, no, noooo” after a play like that and find a problem with it?  Some of you are just looking for 💩 to complain about. What a doofus comment. 

[Dopey]

14 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Excellent rant!  You’ve been paying attention to us all! 

Some of you, not all of us. 

[T master]

14 hours ago, Roundybout said:

What was up with his hands? It looked like he had deep bruises on the backs of both of them. 

 

It may have been from the TV exec's slapping his hands very hard for being the guy the OP says he is ??

[hondo in seattle]

2 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

I enjoyed him yelling "NO! NO!" during the lateral play, like most of his fellow chiefs fans were.

I think he was yelling "no" in disbelief and he was very effusive in his praise of Josh during the game.

 

In any case, I don't really care about Collinsworth.  He has some flaws like all humans and some bad takes like all announcers.  But I don't expect any national announcer to know the Bills as well as we do.  

 

The only thing that impacts my state of mind when watching a Bills game on TV is the state  of the play on the field, not the yapping from the box.  

 

Edited December 3 by hondo in seattle

[I'm Spartacus]

Collingsworth might just be the worst, but in general, I can't stand the color commentary watching NFL games on TV. Let the viewers watch the games and form their own opinions. They constantly over talk and treat viewers like two year olds who don't know anything.

[MJS]

1 hour ago, Simon said:

That's weird because he's one of my very favorites.

I used to watch him working with Mayock during the draft way back in the day. He reallllly knew what he was looking at and did his thing with no self-promotion and a lot of smarts and wisdom. A total breath of fresh air when compared to the rest of the media landscape.

Yeah, I know that some like him. His voice and everything he says just grates on me.

[Sharky7337]

He meant to say " he's long and strong, and down to get the friction on" but quickly pivoted real time

[ToGoGo]

I felt like his color commentary of "No! No! Noooo!" was unprecedented in sports history for a play of that magnitude.

 

It's almost like it was a subconscious expression of "please good God no, I don't want Josh Allen making one of the best plays I've ever seen. Please let it be someone else". He then of course diverted the emotions of the moment to Mahomes/Kelce so he would not have to give the glory to Allen. He was awkward the rest of the broadcast, talking about his fantasy football team, his nephew (???), and giving Allen a compliment after the camera cut away from him during the handshakes after the game. Tirico made comments throughout the night subtly calling him out, if you listened closely.

 

What's going on with Collinsworth is that he owns PFF. So he's heavily invested in advanced statistics. Well what do all of the worst 2018 Allen haters have in common? Their egos are invested in advanced stats. Those are the ones that had the worst things to say. So rather than just admitting they made a mistake and will learn from it, Collinsworth tries to downplay Allen throughout Allen's career.

 

This behavior I call "shorting" similar to those who root for stocks to fall. Rather than investing money, they invest emotions and perceived reputation into seeing somebody fail. As that person rises, rather than cut their losses, they play these types of games. 

 

"God will prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies". That's exactly what happened Sunday night. 

[JP51]

16 hours ago, Simon said:

I'll fold this into the random head thread but this was so stupid I've got to point it up first.

 

So anybody with two eyes knows that Greg Rousseau has inarguably been one of the stoutest, best run-defending DE's in the NFL since about 10 minutes after he stepped on to the field. He's been beating the dogspit out of OT's for 4 straight years with virtually no let-up and both film and analytics consistently suggest he's arguably the best in the world at it.

He made a play last night and CreeperC said (paraphrasing) "Greg Rousseau, he's long and strong but it seems like he's finally starting to add a little physicality to his game"

 

Are you f'ing kidding me?

Even a cursory investigation into him at any point would suggest he's one of the most physical DE's in football and this is the analysis you want to provide during a game?

How in the hell has it gotten to the point where a network can gladly put a creepy moron that everybody hates on the air every week for so many years?

Note to NFL suits: Nobody is turning on SNF to hate watch him; he is not helping you in any way. People are literally turning the sound down (the sound your advertiser's are paying for) just because they want to watch some football on Sunday night. Ratings aren't going to go down and may go up if you get rid of him. Wake up and recognize that he is a net negative you dolts.

He really is unbearably annoying.

[MiracleAtRich1393]

17 hours ago, Simon said:

I'll fold this into the random head thread but this was so stupid I've got to point it up first.

 

So anybody with two eyes knows that Greg Rousseau has inarguably been one of the stoutest, best run-defending DE's in the NFL since about 10 minutes after he stepped on to the field. He's been beating the dogspit out of OT's for 4 straight years with virtually no let-up and both film and analytics consistently suggest he's arguably the best in the world at it.

He made a play last night and CreeperC said (paraphrasing) "Greg Rousseau, he's long and strong but it seems like he's finally starting to add a little physicality to his game"

 

Are you f'ing kidding me?

Even a cursory investigation into him at any point would suggest he's one of the most physical DE's in football and this is the analysis you want to provide during a game?

How in the hell has it gotten to the point where a network can gladly put a creepy moron that everybody hates on the air every week for so many years?

Note to NFL suits: Nobody is turning on SNF to hate watch him; he is not helping you in any way. People are literally turning the sound down (the sound your advertiser's are paying for) just because they want to watch some football on Sunday night. Ratings aren't going to go down and may go up if you get rid of him. Wake up and recognize that he is a net negative you dolts.

The only thing most of the highly paid prime time color guys truly know is that a majority of the prime time viewing audience doesn't know much about football, it's casual fans so they can just say whatever they want and it doesn't actually matter. So you get catchphrases and some pet topic(s) they steer everything towards no matter how relevant. Extremely annoying, but it's like death & taxes at this point.

[Billy Claude]

Its pretty clear people hear what they want to hear.

 

Does Collinsworth say some stupid things sometimes?  Of course he does, but the man was slobbering over the Bills and Josh Allen the whole time.  I guarantee you that most 49ers fans were disgusted with how pro-Bills the commentary was and how much he was ball-washing Allen.

 

Yeah, he talked about the Chiefs at the end but that was because the next SNF game is in Kansas City.  What did you want him to talk about?  How well Trubisky was handing off?  For me, I would much rather listen to him than to Romo.