do they netbroadcast it anywhere ? is this local radio or local television ? sry for all the questions !
 
I’d love to have a (local to Denver) radio feed for Broncos games that I could pull in here in Calgary !

Its always the same story, you know ?

The nationally televised Hockey games here in Canada, the play by play guys always suck because (duh) they aren’t familiar with the players. When you bother to just get a little bit familiar with the players, you can’t help but skew your objectivity a little bit and develop a little emotion for the local team, and that emotion always comes across over the radio !

The local radio crew that covered the Edmonton Oilers (Gretzky et. al.) when i was growing up are legends here in Canada. And I hated those Oilers !

I’ve been doing that since back when Zimmer was play by play and Logan was color. The local guys know the team better, plus radio has to paint the picture for the audience since they can’t see the action. As you wrote, much more detailed and thorough.

When I go to games I listen to them on earphones – when you’re there a lot of times you don’t have a good sight line to what happened. For example, in that Redskins game in 1995 when Rod Smith got his first NFL reception (on a Hail Mary on the last play of the game, for the winning touchdown), we were in the North stands and the play was in the South end zone. About 5 guys went up for the jump ball and we couldn’t see who came down with it, but Logan was all over it.

This year they’ve been rotating who calls color. We’ve had Eddie Mac, Brian Griese (who does a pretty darn good job), Andy Lindal, and I forget who else. Last year (couple of years?) was David Diaz L’Enfante. For a while it was Scott Hastings, former Denver Nugget.

I wondered if that was at least part of the decision, too.

He had to know it was highly likely. I thought as soon as they lined up – oh no – here goes his streak. But that also shows that KO and the team don’t care about individual stats. If so then KO would have purposely thrown it short or out of bounds. The team knew it was a no risk play so why not give the old heave ho. Anything to win, stats mean nothing in the end…

He wanted POINTS eitherby touchdown or a penalty to get a FG attempt.

I have more of a problem with the constant bombardment of those who say it is too weak. Sure it needed to be 3 yards farther, but I haven’t seen any throw that was a realistic and normal NFL route/throw where his “lack of arm strength” has hurt us at all. I did note that he threw it 62 yards and not 65 as Simms said, but the fact remains that even these announcers were shocked that he could throw it that far, yet they were supposed to have studied these teams at least this week and they are supposed to be NFL experts. You can almost hear Simms trying to talk with his foot in his mouth after the throw.

I can’t remember him missing any throws like that either. Which makes me think that either it’s the system/play calling, or it’s the other teams “taking that away” from him and him wisely throwing high percentage throws

Is one of my favorite pet peeves so I linked to an article on this. It’s a very misunderstood tactic. Generally teams put 8 in the box for various reasons, but if a team like Chicago has a tendency to run frequently on 1st and second down and require the QB to throw on 3rd and 4-8, which used to happen frequently, you can put 8 in the box to stop the run that you know is coming or you can put 8 in the box to safety blitz the QB on the obvious passing situation. Orton dealt with that constantly.

But Chi supposedly ran a West Coast Offense; at least, that was the theory. More accurately, they ran a WCO in terms of the passing attack, but they also loved to run on first and second down. Calling that a WCO would have Bill Walsh gyrating in his grave in fury. What’s the point? The WCO loves going up against an 8 man box.

Why? Because the WCO loves to flood zones, gain mismatches and loves running routes to create and take advantages of holes in the zones. If you stack the box on the WCO, you can only have one man deep. Do you remember that from the Broncos last year? We got killed by it. The WCO loves the 8 man box because you can then turn a play designed for 5 yards into one for 15 or 25. You don’t have sufficient safety help, so it’s easier to create the big play.

We aren’t seeing it this year because if we do, McD and Orton are going to pick the defense to death and find a high number of big plays to boot. This really isn’t the arm strength issue that so many have been told. It’s about the design of the offense. However – you’re exactly right, hoopforia, in that you have to have receivers who can run tight routes and gain separation for this to work. Last season, Chi didn’t have the weapons (Johnny Knox may be a great exception for this year). They also didn’t have the O line to stop the blitz on third and whatever, and this as improperly ascribed to Orton’s arm. The reality was that it was a matter of playcalling, line and receiver personnel, as well as play design.

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest – it is, as I said, a bit of a pet peeve. The truth shall make you free – it also is good football ;-)

I don’t think CBS has allowed him to do any games w/ Chris starting, but I see no reason not to allow it. It isn’t as though there is a requirement for unbiased announcing. Sure, it is better to have neutral announcers, but we are kidding ourselves if we think that any announcer is ever completely without bias. CBS is a private company, not affiliated with the league and the announcers have NO impact on the game’s outcome, so he certainly could announce his son’s game and there would be no official reason why he would have to avoid announcing said games.

I have read about it ad nauseum, but it is starting to smell a lot like an urban legend. I’m not saying it’s not possible, but it’s starting to sound a bit apocryphal. Especially since I agree with the earlier assessment that it looked like it took every ounce of strength he had to get it 62 yards.