Jon Gruden, Antonio Brown, Richie Incognito, Vontaze Burfict.
I mean, what could go wrong?
What are my thoughts?
Just another day in Con-Nation.
I was going to include this in my commentary on the Rams @ Raiders game in the “2019 Other Pre-Seasons Games” thread. However, my views of the Raiders’ hometown broadcast team are such that it would be more appropriate to put it here. However, before we get to that, let me briefly analyze their pre-game propaganda promo.
First, they talk about how all of this hype around their offseason transactions, that they could become the next powerhouse, with some radio commentator saying that they may have “won the offseason.” Aside from the Antonio Brown signing, I don’t recall anyone outside of the Raider propaganda machine making such lofty statements. If someone who isn’t obediently reciting whatever Emperor Davis orders them to say has said such things, please provide me with the links.
Then they talked about their 60 years of “commitment to excellence.” Actually, they didn’t adopt that slogan until after they moved to LA in 1983. Every Raider that played for them in Oakland during the 1970s will tell you that they had a sign in the hometeam tunnel that read, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.” Furthermore, they have utterly failed in their commitment since the turn of the millennium.
Now my assessment of the Raiders’ broadcast team:
Beth Mowins: It was great to listening to a play-by-play announcer who obviously isn’t a lifelong football fan. The 1st time the Raiders punted; Gruden took a deliberate delay of game penalty. She said that he must be wanting to challenge the punter. A real football fan would now that its standard operating procedure to take the penalty when punting need midfield in order to improve the punter’s chances of pinning the opponents deep in their own end. Later, a Raider picked up a loose ball and started running towards the endzone in case it was a fumble while the refs we emphatically blowing their whistles and signaling incomplete pass. She said they were ruling it as an illegal forward pass before finally correcting herself. When the Raiders scored their 2nd TD, the replay officials called for a review. She said they might be checking to see if his knees were down. Of course that’s what they were doing. Any real football fan would immediately know just by watching the replay that is exactly what was going on.
Rich Gannon & Matt Millen: These 2 needed to just shut up when the refs were explaining their calls & non-calls. They may thing that fans would rather listen to them chit-chat about stuff that has nothing to do with the game that’s currently being played then the refs explanations, but it was impossible to understand anything that anyone was saying when they simply ignored the fact the refs were trying to inform the fans about what was going on. Eventually the got Beth Mowins to join them which resulted in her doing no play-by-play announcements for at least half the plays in the 4th quarter.
I’ve never seen nor heard a broadcast team show such incompetence by a play-by-play announcer, and complete apathy towards the game that they’re supposed to be commenting on. If their team performance matches that of their broadcast team, the Raiders are going 0-16 this year.
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Beth and Matt Millen must have photos.
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Oh, OK, that makes far more sense than the idea that these 2 deserve the job they have. I know they want to have a lady in a prominent broadcast position in order to show gender equality, but are you really telling me that there is such a deficiency in women who are reasonably knowledgeable about football that they have to get someone like Beth. I’d find it far more entertaining if the Raiders would hire GEM so she could embarrass those Raider propagandists by telling them the truth about their team.
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Matt Millen received a heart transplant on Christmas Eve. Everything you all said about him is about as useless as your team was that same night.
I've never listened to a Broncos broadcast team, but I have to Jets, Giants, Mets and Yankees. I'm sure every broadcasting team calls in the home team's favor. But thanks for your opinion.
See you all opening night. Raiders 31-20.
Sorry I can’t provide visual evidence of what was common knowledge at the time. All I can do is provide you with a link to a book on Amazon.com which Raider players openly acknowledge they were encouraged to cheat.
https://www.amazon.com/Cheating-Enco.../dp/1683580621
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