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Tony Romo: Broadcaster (1 Viewer)

Chaka said:
Very few of them predict plays live.  And Tony's the only one who makes a habit out of getting it right.  And it is a terrific form of analysis.

He's the best in the biz.  You don't like it, I get it and that's perfectly fine.  That's why G-D created the mute button.
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I usually recommend watching the game in a loud sports bar where you never know what the announcers are saying. Problem solved.

 
Leroy Hoard said:
I usually recommend watching the game in a loud sports bar where you never know what the announcers are saying. Problem solved.
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Have you noticed the annoying trend towards closed captioning in that atmosphere. For the life of me...

blocks the play and you're stuck with badly transcribed lousy commentary. Argh.

 
Romo is the best I've ever heard.  When someone sucks - and many people have failed at this- it really detracts from the enjoyment of  the game. sure, you could put it on mute but I prefer to listen to crowd and an announcer who says things I wouldn't otherwise had thought of.

 
Tool said:
Romo is the best I've ever heard.  When someone sucks - and many people have failed at this- it really detracts from the enjoyment of  the game. sure, you could put it on mute but I prefer to listen to crowd and an announcer who says things I wouldn't otherwise had thought of.
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I was afraid that I would tire of Romo's broadcasting but that hasn't been the case.  I still enjoy his insight and enthusiasm.   But, I can see how he may be too much for some folks.  

 
Romo did a great job with the delay of game/false start sequence at the end of the game on Saturday. He knew the rule cold, brought in the reffing guy at the right time, and the producer worked perfectly with him, alternating between Vrabel and Belichick barking at the sideline ref.  One of the few times a football announcer has actually said something worthwhile and helpful that I can recall in a few decades of watching televised football. 

 
once upon a time i used to spend a lot of time at some high school football games and one of the teams only had two running plays so i would tell my lady they are going to run it and they always did so basically what i am saying is the ole swcer and tony romo are a lot alike and when you praise him up in here i sort of feel like you are talkin about me take that to the bank brohans 

 
He was great early on, but it feels like he read his press clippings too much and just feels like he can say the stupidest stuff now and get praised. 

And as I opined in the game thread earlier, his comments and suggestions when teams are in the hurry up are usually not good, which I guess explains why he always came up short at the end of so many games. 

 
I actually felt like he got WAY better as that game went along.  The first half every other play was a "HUGE PLAY JIIIMMM!!!!!1"  

He just started analyzing and appreciating as the 2nd half/OT evolved.  

Also the fact it was one of the best games I have EVERY SEEEN IN MY LIFE improved my opinion of Tone.

 
Not his best game past few weeks. More annoying than usual, not offering up anything from the analysis side other than a lot of generic stuff: 

 
Big fan of Tony Romo. Easily my favorite color guy today. I've always been pretty neutral on Jim Nantz but paired with Romo, I think he's perfect. I love Michaels/Collinsworth but Nantz/Romo my clear #1 team. 

 
jobarules said:
Not a fan of Collinsworth but dont hate him like others do.
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Same here. He has a bit of a grating voice, but I don't mind his insights. I take the good with the bad with him. Aikman and Buck, on the other hand, a just professional chucklers who laugh at everything between the two of them. When Aikman is analyzing QBs and getting into the nitty gritty, he can be good, but they joke around and poke each other's ribs far too much. 

 
Ghost Rider said:
He was great early on, but it feels like he read his press clippings too much and just feels like he can say the stupidest stuff now and get praised. 

And as I opined in the game thread earlier, his comments and suggestions when teams are in the hurry up are usually not good, which I guess explains why he always came up short at the end of so many games. 
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This is where I'm at. I liked him last year but he seems annoying now. I think I like Collingsworth the most now. 

 
Romo is great. He helps watch football smarter. He circled Kelce right before the snap when Mahomes found him up the seam — appreciate him pointing out where to particularly focus on during the play.

 
Don Quixote said:
Romo is great. He helps watch football smarter. He circled Kelce right before the snap when Mahomes found him up the seam — appreciate him pointing out where to particularly focus on during the play.
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I was coming in to post the same thing.  He called the play that got them in FG range and he does that a few times every game.  

 
facook said:
@mr furleywas right. He kinda stinks.
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think it was Simmons on his podcast who said, listen to Romo and you can tell he's not preparing for these games. he made his shtick being a predictor, calling plays (correctly at like a 5% clip, or less) and he's running with it. 

he's just out there throwing around word salad and yukking it up with the stiffest human on the planet, but not putting in the prep time to be polished and knowledgeable about the players, the rules, etc.

he sometimes lucks in to a play call and people go bananas about his wizardry.. but ignore the next 10 predictions where he's completely wrong, not just about the play call, but the scenario and what is going on in the game.

 
Gally said:
I was coming in to post the same thing.  He called the play that got them in FG range and he does that a few times every game.  
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this is what people see. one correct call.

forget the 4-5 right before that where he said they'd "hand off, or throw, or qb scramble here".

or he pointed out a formation and said the play was clearly going left, but at the snap it went right. 

or he calls a run play, but it's a deep ball up the sideline. 

all his wild guessing just gets glossed over. he talks over Nantz, he's trying to make horrible jokes, he pokes fun at Nantz in the weirdest ways and tries to make fun of himself in even worse ways. he's awful.

 
mr. furley said:
think it was Simmons on his podcast who said, listen to Romo and you can tell he's not preparing for these games. he made his shtick being a predictor, calling plays (correctly at like a 5% clip, or less) and he's running with it. 

he's just out there throwing around word salad and yukking it up with the stiffest human on the planet, but not putting in the prep time to be polished and knowledgeable about the players, the rules, etc.

he sometimes lucks in to a play call and people go bananas about his wizardry.. but ignore the next 10 predictions where he's completely wrong, not just about the play call, but the scenario and what is going on in the game.
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do you keep a notebook when watching?

 
urbanhack said:
do you keep a notebook when watching?
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i chart each sentence by structure, syllable and time of the game

then i have my analytics guys pore over it to discuss at our team meeting in May. i'll send you an invite if you want to join the call.

 
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mr. furley said:
this is what people see. one correct call.

forget the 4-5 right before that where he said they'd "hand off, or throw, or qb scramble here".

or he pointed out a formation and said the play was clearly going left, but at the snap it went right. 

or he calls a run play, but it's a deep ball up the sideline. 

all his wild guessing just gets glossed over. he talks over Nantz, he's trying to make horrible jokes, he pokes fun at Nantz in the weirdest ways and tries to make fun of himself in even worse ways. he's awful.
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I guess I take his predictions more for the basis behind them then actually getting them correct.  Meaning he usually gives reasons why he thinks they should do XYZ and it adds to the knowledge of the game for me.  Anything adding something to think about to the broadcast is an improvement over 95% of the guys doing broadcasts.  

 
Gally said:
I guess I take his predictions more for the basis behind them then actually getting them correct.  Meaning he usually gives reasons why he thinks they should do XYZ and it adds to the knowledge of the game for me.  Anything adding something to think about to the broadcast is an improvement over 95% of the guys doing broadcasts.  
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to that end, Trent Green was a zombie this weekend.  it was like the called him in out of the stands at the last minute,

all he did was say "there's a run play right there, with a couple blocks and a gain of 3". yikes.

but, any QB (especially) can call out the plays with fair accuracy. they just don't. Aikman alludes to it here and there as a sort of jab (i think) at Romo. they spent their lives reading defenses and calling plays. it's second nature. 

some of the guys spend more of their few seconds trying to analyze the plays after the fact and clue viewers in on why it happened.. whereas Romo tries to predict what will happen as he talks through play after play.  there's a window for analyst and play by play guy to work in together... Romo tends to blow right past all those gates, sometimes even sending the game to commercial.

i feel like Nantz wants to murder him, but he's saddled with the guy.

 
mr. furley said:
to that end, Trent Green was a zombie this weekend.  it was like the called him in out of the stands at the last minute,

all he did was say "there's a run play right there, with a couple blocks and a gain of 3". yikes.

but, any QB (especially) can call out the plays with fair accuracy. they just don't. Aikman alludes to it here and there as a sort of jab (i think) at Romo. they spent their lives reading defenses and calling plays. it's second nature. 

some of the guys spend more of their few seconds trying to analyze the plays after the fact and clue viewers in on why it happened.. whereas Romo tries to predict what will happen as he talks through play after play.  there's a window for analyst and play by play guy to work in together... Romo tends to blow right past all those gates, sometimes even sending the game to commercial.

i feel like Nantz wants to murder him, but he's saddled with the guy.
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I think some of that can be chalked up to inexperience as a broadcaster.  I hope he is proud enough to work to improve on that.  His enthusiasm is just refreshing to most of the other announce blowhards out there.

 
mr. furley said:
i feel like Nantz wants to murder him, but he's saddled with the guy.
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One will always get a contrarian take on the boards, that's for sure. Who is saddled with who? Nantz never met a Butker kick he didn't salivate all over, as if that were the end-all be-all of football. Go back to the Masters, Jim. 

 
I enjoy Romo very much, to me Jim Nantz is just too stiff.  I can't separate him from announcing the Masters, so he just feels out of place to me calling football.  

I'd love to see Al Michaels and Romo together, I think that would be the best pairing.  

 
mr. furley said:
this is what people see. one correct call.

forget the 4-5 right before that where he said they'd "hand off, or throw, or qb scramble here".

or he pointed out a formation and said the play was clearly going left, but at the snap it went right. 

or he calls a run play, but it's a deep ball up the sideline. 

all his wild guessing just gets glossed over. he talks over Nantz, he's trying to make horrible jokes, he pokes fun at Nantz in the weirdest ways and tries to make fun of himself in even worse ways. he's awful.
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A couple plays before that was the kickoff where he predicted they would kick it short of the end zone to run 4-5 seconds off the clock and give the Chiefs less time to work with. They did not do that, but, yeah, they should have done so.

 
Collinsworth gets a bad rap.  He seems to me to be ultra prepared and offers insights and analysis that are spot on.  He doesn't have the flair that Romo does.  He's not Madden.  Or Gruden for that matter.  Not many great analysts out there.  Maybe he's been around so long that people are just tired of him.  But he's good at what he does.  Put him next to a Jason Witten and you'll see.  

 
Judge Smails said:
Collinsworth gets a bad rap.  He seems to me to be ultra prepared and offers insights and analysis that are spot on.  He doesn't have the flair that Romo does.  He's not Madden.  Or Gruden for that matter.  Not many great analysts out there.  Maybe he's been around so long that people are just tired of him.  But he's good at what he does.  Put him next to a Jason Witten and you'll see.  
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Agreed, 100%.  I don't mind Collinsworth at all.  He does seem to have pretty good insights most of the time.  No one can be Madden.  

Romo is good.  Not great.  Some of his calls are solid, and I appreciate the enthusiasm.

Witten was terrible.  I felt bad for him; I know he was trying but he just didn't have the gift of gab.

 
mr. furley said:
i feel like Nantz wants to murder him, but he's saddled with the guy.
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That's fascinating.

I think Nantz knows without Romo he's mostly old golf guy with respect but nobody really cares. Romo puts Nantz to next level and keeps him relevant. In my opinion, Nantz needs Romo way more than Romo needs Nantz. 

 
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wlwiles said:
I enjoy Romo very much, to me Jim Nantz is just too stiff.  I can't separate him from announcing the Masters, so he just feels out of place to me calling football.  
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Exactly. Nantz has the wrong comportment for calling football. He should stick to golf. Romo has his flaws but he’s miles more interesting and better than most of the other analysts, including Collinsworth.

 
Judge Smails said:
Collinsworth gets a bad rap.  He seems to me to be ultra prepared and offers insights and analysis that are spot on.  He doesn't have the flair that Romo does.  He's not Madden.  Or Gruden for that matter.  Not many great analysts out there.  Maybe he's been around so long that people are just tired of him.  But he's good at what he does.  Put him next to a Jason Witten and you'll see.  
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I like listening to Collinsworth. I don't want him to be any of those other guys. I like what he brings to the table as himself. 

 
ChiefD said:
Romo is like a Labrador puppy in there. Jumping on Nantz' lap, panting with excitement, and the snap of the ball makes him run around in circles in the booth. During timeouts he sticks his head out of the window so the wind can blow through his hair and face.
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I stand by my original statement.

 
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