infrared41

Just now, Unocal said:

The NFL is more interesting when the Packers are bad

 

And you're not interesting at all.

3 minutes ago, BBTV said:

 

Seriously.  The higher team wins and he's pissed because it's "predictable".  The lower seed wins and he's mad that they have a good QB.  I don't know if there's ever been a member here who is just always mad about everything.  

 

It's nauseating.

He's a troll which is bad enough, but he's boring on top of it which is even worse.  I'm as guilty of it as anyone, but we really should stop feeding him.

Just now, Unocal said:

God forbid the Packers ever be terrible at QB

 

Karma does not exist

 

Everybody outside Wisconsin is sick and tired of Green Bay

Oh, off.

On 1/7/2024 at 8:47 PM, infrared41 said:

 

Bold prediction: The Packers send the Cowboys home next week.

On 1/8/2024 at 10:58 AM, infrared41 said:

On 1/8/2024 at 3:42 AM, Unocal said:

Bet on a Joe Barry defense at your own peril.

 

I'm not betting on a Joe Barry defense, I'm betting on the recent playoff history of the Dallas Cowboys.

As I was saying.

I'm not ready to bury the Cowboys just yet. This thing is a long way from over.

5 minutes ago, Kramerica Industries said:

Take this with a grain of salt, but I've heard before that there's incentive for YouTubers to post videos that go past the 10:00 mark.

I could see that, but you don't need 8-12 minutes of blathering on about nothing to get past ten minutes. 10:30 will do the trick. I think the guy loves to hear himself talk.

2 hours ago, The_Admiral said:

Why do they look like the same person?

They are the same person. It's all part of that Communist Whore's PSYOP.

2 hours ago, RyanMcD29 said:

Yeah that's the thing I see whenever one of his videos pop up on my recommended feed on YouTube. He's got some interesting ideas but he takes way too long to set up the point and it's 7 and a half minutes in and you're still waiting to get to the fireworks factory

Exactly. If you can hang in until he gets to the actual point of the video, he does some pretty cool stuff. The 15 minutes of "first some background" is where he loses me.

7 minutes ago, Cosmic said:

 

6 minutes ago, The_Admiral said:

I think there is something to NBC Sports being stretched thin, though. People said a lot of the same things about Bills-Chargers on Christmas, that the whole production felt unpleasant and vaguely off its game.

If NBC is stretched thin it's not because there aren't enough qualified people, it's because they won't spend the money to use the qualified people.

That aside, a Titans - Jags game is not going to have the same budget as a Cowboys - Niners game. Yes, you're going to get less camera angles and bells and whistles on a game that's basically being broadcast in Nashville and Jacksonville than you are with a national game. This is not a new thing.

1 hour ago, GDAWG said:

He did a lot of sports announcing at his alma mater, so he knows a thing or two about broadcasts

After watching the first few minutes, I can assure you that he does not.

14 minutes ago, Red Comet said:

 

Thank you for the actual insider perspective. Part of me had an inkling of an idea that he was exaggerating his accomplishments when I posted it, then I see GDAWG saying he graduated from law school at Arizona State and then I knew this guy was talking out of his ass. I would respect a law degree from Disneyland more than Arizona State. Dude always had a pompous tone in his videos too so I guess I thought I could overlook it based on the pretense of expertise. 

Really shows the whole "real experts aren't talking about their expertise on TV or social media. they're actually working in their field under practical anonymity". 

He wasn't exaggerating, he was writing pure fiction. The second I heard "NBC didn't have enough people" I had to say something.

Anyway...Sports production is fun, but it's also hard work that ain't all that glamorous. The top tier people are on the road a lot of the time (most of these folks work all the sports, not just football) and they have to work in any and all weather conditions. It can be a real grind. Just ask the camera crew at last night's game.

To JG9's credit, he has a great idea for a YouTube channel, but, and this kinda tells you he has no real broadcasting experience, his videos would be way better if he had the first idea how to edit himself. If he had any practical experience, his videos would be six minutes long and his subscriber base would probably double as a result.

2 hours ago, Red Comet said:

JaguarGator9 breaks down into detail why the Peacock broadcast sucked beyond the whole “putting crucial games behind a paywall”. Guy apparently worked in a production truck for ESPN so this is really good coming from that perspective. I missed the first half of the third quarter because of those clowns. 

Three minutes in and I can tell you he's already full of . on at least one thing. NBC didn't use people "who have no sports experience" to broadcast the game. That's simply not how sports productions work - especially at the network level. If NBC actually was short of qualified crew people (they weren't) there are at minimum hundreds of highly qualified sports production people they could have brought in to pick up the slack. The simple explanation is the production team had a bad night. It happens.

If he really did work for the "ESPN family of networks" he should already know this. Especially when you understand that ESPN uses freelancers all the time all over the country. Does this guy really believe that networks have full time crews for every NFL game and all the college football games they do? (they don't) He does if he has no idea what he's talking about.

Case in point, we have a big NHRA event every year. The broadcast was on Fox and FS1, but the production was done by a non-affiliated production company that was hired to do the event. Long story short, the idea that NBC didn't have enough qualified people so they grabbed someone from the Nightly News or whatever is absurd. That's just not how it works.

Back when I was working for the "ESPN family of networks" (AKA freelancing through our local RSN) our people were worked for any network that needed them. I worked for ESPN, ABC, and CBS broadcasts. A couple years ago, a friend of mine in Syracuse - whose full time job is teaching at a local college - directed a bowl game the Buckeyes played in. (I can't remember which game. Might have been the Cotton Bowl.) That's a lot of words to say that JG9 is talking out his ass on this one. He may have sat in ESPN trucks, but he clearly has no idea how working in sports production actually works.

1 minute ago, Ridleylash said:

I mean, it was, but this adds another wrinkle to the whole ordeal which makes it even funnier in hindsight given the picks Houston got were turned into some of the key contributors to their turnaround.

Yeah, hilarious.

47 minutes ago, Ridleylash said:

That DeShaun trade may well become the biggest blunder in a history of long Browns 2.0 blunders if the Texans can keep this run up. What a curbstomping lmao

The Watson trade was the Browns biggest blunder when it happened. You're a couple seasons behind.

Were you really laughing your ass off or is it just rhetorical flourish?

2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

But is it, though?   I get that you wouldn't want to go, and maybe that you think the players shouldn't have to play. It isn't going to be deadly - let's not be so melodramatic. 

Let's not act like it's no big deal either.

The Flacco giveth and the Flacco taketh away.

1 hour ago, BBTV said:

 

I think Communist_Whore is going to be my new forum name.

19 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Communist_Whore/the artist formerly known as Admiral knows how to strike when the iron is hot.

3 minutes ago, BottomlessPitt said:

 

It was fun while it lasted. 

We had our fun, but now it's time to head to a neutral corner.

No one is getting the username "Communist Whore." Sorry.

27 minutes ago, Cosmic said:

And what are these people mad about?

Beats me, but I can't lie, I get a kick out of how much it aggravates them.

3 hours ago, the admiral said:

The "pussification of America" stuff is really overboard with this.

MOD REDACTED by me.

Suffice it to say that a Twitter user was none too happy with Governor Hochul's decision to move the Steelers - Bills game to Monday.

Oops.

8 minutes ago, Germanshepherd said:

The Freezer Bowl was played before the 2001 wind chill recalculation, the same conditions would be -32 today. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140104111820/http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=grb&storyid=99351&source=0

Oh, well that's different. -32 is much warmer than -59. I stand corrected. By the way, at -32, we're only  -8 degrees away from the temperature being the same in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

1 hour ago, Red Comet said:

Alright, I'll get off your lawn. I'm just of the opinion that hazards make a more memorable game which makes better TV. I'm a bit of a psychopath, sue me. If it actually gets to a point where it would kill someone with the physical fitness of an NFL player, the game shouldn't be played. Like lightning. I played football. Bad weather games were what I would kill for. 

I can assure you that my opinion on this has nothing to do with my age. I felt the same way when the '81 AFC title game was played in weather with a -59 degree wind chill.

Snow is a hazard. Rain and mud are hazards. Playing football in "don't expose your skin and be sure to bring your animals inside so they don't freeze to death" weather is insanity. These tough guy football players are going to roll out there without sleeves because they don't want to look weak. Or they're idiots. Or both. It might be memorable, but it won't be good football.

This isn't just "bad weather." This is dangerous to the teams and the fans and the NFL should know better.