Dan Hanzus, Marc Sessler & Conor Orr are turning the page to Week 8! First up, it’s “Teams We’re Not Ready To Give Up On,” with each of the heroes giving the down-bad team they believe can turn it around (4:14). Then, the Athletic’s Andrew Marchand joins the show to discuss The Brady Rules (22:53) and react to the HTC Broadcast Booth Power Rankings (33:29). Finally, we preview the Thursday Night Football matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams (54:49).
0:00 Intro
4:14 Teams We’re Not Ready To Give Up On
22:53 The Brady Rules
33:29 Broadcast Booth Power Rankings
54:49 TNF Preview
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Connor absolutely botched the rankings haha. Serious tumble down the common man rankings.
Wad up Marc "wit a C"
connor is right, aikman and buck are awful
Love the sonic youth reference from Connor
Excellent segments. Thanks much. I would, however, argue the marriage between Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay is most likely over. This year's weird off season with the salary issue to go with the lingering nagging injuries of Stafford and so many players through camp showed how fragile the relationship is at this stage, especially since this team has not looked prepared to win since the week following the Lions game. Who do you think Sean McVay hates losing to more? Kyle Shanahan? Matt LaFleur? Or, Jared Goff? McVay has had trouble with the 49ers & Shanahan, but has never beaten Green Bay with LaFleur as their coach. The Rams have lost 5 straight to the Packers under Matt LaFleur. McVay, Stafford and a forgotten backup QB have yet to beat Green Bay in four tries from 2021-2024. The Lions with Goff have gone 4-2 in 6 contests in that period. Side note. Jared Goff, in 2018, is the only Rams QB to beat the Packers since Brett Favre was under center in 2006. You have to think that losing to Goff the last two times the Rams & Lions have met has been brutal psychologically for both McVay and Stafford. Goff now is MVP material while the Rams struggle with a broken roster two losses away from good night 2024 season. The reports from Mike Florio, and some young guy named Jack Settleman, that the Vikings and Rams are in discussions to move #9 to Minnesota sound like Stafford's agent on the prowl again, just like in 2020. I can't see how this sits well with Sean McVay who I think still hopes to win this season.
Mark I fully agree with you collinsworth annoys me every single time I watch snf just surprised they weren't unanimously #9
Is directly serious does he think we like hearing just a few qb stars being glazed on every play what's Brady gonna say about mahomes that Romo or collinsworth said And who has a problem with te Noah gray getting some love ANYONE WANTS TO HEAR MORE ABOUT MAHOMES unless maybe you are so little youre just becoming conscious or not an actual fan. I wanna hear tb talk about all players on roster he don't have to mention the qb even once ever again and Itd be definitely not a loss.
Conor is right, Joe and Troy suck
Heeding the Athletic “Gravedigger” article
I guess my hot take is I dont care for Buck and Aikman
I am always bummed out when Manningcast isnt available
Otherwise I only dislike
Brady, Vilma. Feely. Herbstreet
Most are fine, Harlan is god-tier play by play, needs better than Trent Green
Tirico I have enjoyed going back to ESPN fantastic, hopefully he will get paired with a better cohost
Connor the contrarian lol
Dan-turn down your light, you are glowing like a neon sign I don't think you want that LOL…also like Mark I did a chuck an empty soda bottle across the room in a studio class back in college and got a classmate in the head just as she was walking across the floor to someone. I felt so stupid and since I already didn't like her it seemed intentional.
That was a fun, jaunty song from Sam Stringfield (sp?)! These Orr themes have been impressively varied and great.
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Sounding like David Berman on this conor Orr theme
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It's befitting to have Andrew on this very important episode!
Bonkerz wildcard moment of the ep: Orr having Amin and Sanchez at #1, haha. But having an announcer talk to the audience like there's a clipboard in his hand is what I enjoyed so much about the Olympics announcer for ping pong despite not caring much for ping pong.
Dan's announcer tastes seem to be about recapturing a feeling of being 8 years old and staying up a little later than usual to watch a Monday night game on the couch with dad. So I don't agree with a lot of them but I appreciate that kind of feeling. I do like when Michaels doesn't give a damn during a game but Herbstreet's analysis is either this guy is great or this guy is learning and will soon be great and every game, multiple times, neither one of them mentions something interesting happening on the field. I think Quiet Storm and Orr are right about the Sunday night duo. Tirico comes across as a very simple and content man, which is terrific for his blood pressure, but means he doesn't have much to add outside of the on field play-by-play and Collinsworth with his golf metaphors is just a couple of steps above smugly insufferable.
I'm the opposite of Andrew (and I guess most other folks) in wanting coverage focused on the star players. Game after game the same "analysis", remarks, and gushing praise are repeated and very quickly it gets very boring. I like learning about all of the players on the team and about the lesser mentioned positions. If Tom Brady, who I find kind of dull, wants to talk about the adjustments made by the tight end rather than the pass thrown by Mahomes then that's fine. I promise there will be plenty of more times to talk about the Chiefs star QB. Also, it's almost unbelievable to hear about the meetings and prep that color commentators go through just so most of them on Sunday can deliver streams of the most repetitive, uninteresting dialogue in the history of english language broadcasting. I never realized how much work went into such an achievement. This comment of mine is too long.
@36:45 The Collingsworth Beanie Baby moment had me and my wife laughing out of confusion. Like, is this dude ok? Someone should go check on him.
Also, Al Micheals might be getting a hair to grumpy and disinterested with his games.
I'm with Connor – Aikman/Buck are my least favorite. It's generic, and they're voices just run together. Monotonous.
I wish there was a reliable way to put your team's radio coverage over the broadcast.
Darcy taking a big shot in the high school cafeteria! Dropped by an apple from The Quiet Storm!
Love the show!
coulda sworn something else was happening on Nov 5th this year…hmm. Well never mind
Conor is waaaay more entertaining than the previous third member of the team. There. I said it.
no one wants to hear an announcer talk about mahomes over and over so I'm good with what Brady did. We got Collinsworth for that
LOVED this episode. SO funny the whole way. You're gold being you Connor!
Why did no one talk about how God awful Kirk Herbstreit is? The chemistry between him and Al is non-existant. Looks like neither of them want to be where they are.
Kevin Harlan can't be that low come on. One of the best doing it imo.
One of the best experiences I had was during covid calling games on a live stream and was great at it…..this would be my dream job. That said, here are my rankings after being able to listen to all of these groups many of times over the years. Full disclosure I've played madden since eddie george was on the cover and the last few years of Charles Davis has maybe jaded my opinion as I feel like sometimes during real games, he is recording sound bits for madden:
1. Troy & Joe (ESPN)
2. Mike & Chris (Mike is the best play by play in the league….imagine Mike with Greg….or Tom)
3. Kevin & Trent
4. Jim & Tony
5. Joe &Greg
6. Kevin & Tom
7. Adam & Mark
8. Ian & Charles
9. Al & Krik (Kirk is terrible and Al seems like he is ready for bed by half time)
The Top 2 Dream Teams:
1. NBC Production with Mike Tirico & Tom Brady.
2. ESPN Production with Joe Buck & Troy Aikman….and bring back the ménage à trois with Greg Olsen.
It is all subjective but IMO Joe Buck is easily the worst. His voice and play calling ruins games.
36:54 oh man Conor's Collinsworth impression got me 😂💀
My wife agrees with Conor on Buck. She thinks he’s a condescending jerk.
Connors take on buck and Aikman legitimately makes me think less of him as a man
Al suffers from Kirk’s constant college takes and Prime pumping in way too many ad breaks.
There was a change of possession less than 30 seconds before the end of the 1st quarter and we got 2 extended breaks with one play in between.
Conor lost me with the raiders brought me back with the Joe & Aikman. He’s right. I truly don’t understand why media love them so much.
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The greatness of Tirico outweighs the weirdness of Collinsworth for me. Mike has covered a lot of big sports events and always been great
1:01:50 they are cool shades
You guys live in L.A. can you pronounce the Spanish name correctly it’s Avila aa
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Disagree on Brady. Any JAG can get in the booth and say “Isn’t Mahomes wonderful.” That’s how Nick Wright makes a living.
The benefit of someone like Brady is he can bring another depth of analysis and point out what’s normally overlooked in team success.
Collinsworth sucks and has for years.
Conner sucks