Mandatory long time lurker (over a decade on Reddit) first time poster comment…
At any rate I’m just shocked by how far I scrolled and didn’t see a comment about Collinsworth mentioning how well Mattison has played this year, multiple times
Mattison seems like a really great dude, but I was really confused when Collinsworth talked about it the first time and just frustrated when he kept bringing it up.
Most commentators are pretty big casuals despite their profession. Just on basic factual stuff too. I remember a couple years ago when Bradbury was still a train wreck Collinsworth said something like “and here’s their terrific center Bradbury, they’re happy they drafted him” it was peak “Bradbury is terrible and a bust” time. A lot of times Collinsworth will say comments/assumptions based on stuff the team did well previous seasons just assuming that still applies this year. And then of course we have Herbstreit who didn’t even know how to pronounce our players names “Darrishhhhhhaw”