USA Today poll: Favorite NFL announcers

[JackReacher]

From, obviously, USA Today....

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2010-10-28-brett-favre-brad-childress-best-nfl-announcers_N.htm

Here's how I voted:

Best NFL game analyst: Collinsworth
Best PBP: Al Michaels
Best game crew: NBC
Best pregame show: NFL Gameday Morning
Best pregame host: Rich Eisen
Best insider: Jay Glazer (Mizzou's boy, Florio, is currently leading. Wow.)
Best sideline reporter: Andrea Kremer
Best studio show: Inside the NFL

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Collinsworth was so bad on Sunday night that I can't vote for him.

I would agree with Glazer as the best insider. It's unfair to put Florio with them, because as much as I like and respect the guy, he's not accountable to the same people as Glazer and Schefter.

 

[Gutter]

Best NFL game analyst: Collinsworth
Best PBP: Al Michaels
Best game crew: NBC
Best pregame show: Football Night in America (don't have NFL Network to compare)
Best pregame host: James Brown
Best insider: Jay Glazer
Best sideline reporter: Suzy Kolber
Best studio show: NFL Live

 

[Gutter]

Collinsworth was so bad on Sunday night that I can't vote for him.

Yeah, I heard he was pretty awful (and actually the whole crew for not knowing why Cullen Jenkins wasn't in the game), but I was in the stands so I only caught that second-hand.

 

[JackReacher]

I always used to go back and forth with the different pregame shows, but I started watching the NFLN show this season. I dig it.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think Eisen does a tremendous job.

 

[proudpittsburgher]

Despite my football loyalty, I always found Collinsworth to be very insightful and down to earth, something that Madden used to be. So I will go with him as the best color man in the biz. I don't have the problem with Michaels that others do, and while this may out me . . . I like listening to Gus Johnson when he doesn't cover the Steelers game. If nothing else, it makes it fun to listen to.

 

[YGBFKM]

There was a game between the Jets and Dolphins, I believe, in '82 maybe. The announce team was perfect.

 

[JackReacher]

Don Criqui will kick all their asses.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If we're talking analysts, I'll go with Jaws. Collinsworth is very good, but he just about caused my head to explode Sunday night.

 

[zebracoy]

I think it's interesting that the media perceptions are so different from those of the general fan.

And by interesting, I mean downright terrifying.

 

[Pancamo]

Florio as an "Insider" is a ****ing joke. He links to other writers. He has created a great compilation of NFL News but his being an "insider" is bull****.

 

[Ilmago]

From, obviously, USA Today....

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2010-10-28-brett-favre-brad-childress-best-nfl-announcers_N.htm

Here's how I voted:

Best NFL game analyst: Collinsworth
Best PBP: Al Michaels
Best game crew: NBC
Best pregame show: NFL Gameday Morning
Best pregame host: Rich Eisen
Best insider: Jay Glazer (Mizzou's boy, Florio, is currently leading. Wow.)
Best sideline reporter: Andrea Kremer
Best studio show: Inside the NFL

Stephen Strasburg

 

[JackReacher]

From, obviously, USA Today....

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/mccarthy/2010-10-28-brett-favre-brad-childress-best-nfl-announcers_N.htm

Here's how I voted:

Best NFL game analyst: Collinsworth
Best PBP: Al Michaels
Best game crew: NBC
Best pregame show: NFL Gameday Morning
Best pregame host: Rich Eisen
Best insider: Jay Glazer (Mizzou's boy, Florio, is currently leading. Wow.)
Best sideline reporter: Andrea Kremer
Best studio show: Inside the NFL

Stephen Strasburg

Agreed.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

There was a game between the Jets and Dolphins, I believe, in '82 maybe. The announce team was perfect.

I'm guessing you're talking about the announcerless game? That happened in '80.

 

[BYH]

Florio as an "Insider" is a ****ing joke. He links to other writers. He has created a great compilation of NFL News but his being an "insider" is bull****.

Yes. He gets the prime in-studio seat on the SNF post-game show b/c he's not an insider. He operates the most-read NFL site on the Internet and partners with the network that airs the most-watched game of the week while Jay Glazer writes for a site nobody in their right mind ever visits and appears on the Fox post-game show long after most of us have gone to the dinner table, but yes, Florio is not an insider.

 

[JackReacher]

When I think "NFL Insider", I think about guys who routinely break news. I do not think of guys who routinely link to other writers who break news.

I think of Glazer.
I do not think of Florio.

That said, some may define "NFL Insider" a little differently than I do. So be it.

 

[expendable]

If we're talking analysts, I'll go with Jaws. Collinsworth is very good, but he just about caused my head to explode Sunday night.

I'm with you on Jaws. He almost makes "this guy" palatable.

 

[BYH]

When I think "NFL Insider", I think about guys who routinely break news. I do not think of guys who routinely link to other writers who break news.

I think of Glazer.
I do not think of Florio.

That said, some may define "NFL Insider" a little differently than I do. So be it.

PFT has broken plenty of news. If Florio wasn't an insider, why would NBC give him the audience he gets on the SNF post-game show? Why doesn't PK get that gig? I'll agree the guy is not a traditional insider, but you don't go from running a site as a hobby to NBC without being the real deal.

And when was the last time you visited FoxSports.com for anything? I bet Jay Glazer would kill for his hits.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Florio made a big pitch for votes on PFT, earlier this morning.