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.
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Collingsworth is getting old, and I think kind of rests on his laurels. I’ve noticed this in other games he does, he just doesn’t seem as prepared and kind of wings it. He made a number of comments that were inaccurate or just plain off.
At one point he noted that Denver’s run defense struggled all season, and that “this Vikings team would really test them”. I was thinking like how, to test if our run offense is actually even worse than their run defense?
Then at another point they said the Vikings were best in the league on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1…But struggled tonight. Is that remotely accurate? I thought we were like worst in the league in that category.
Mattison praise was obviously not well informed.
He said Jefferson played only three games this season and his worst game was 149 yards receiving. Jefferson played the entire Carolina game and most of the KC game, and in both games his total was well below 149 yards.
My guess is he screwed a bunch of Broncos stuff up too but I don’t follow that team enough to catch them.
Yeah I still like Collinsworth and his happy aw shucks schtick. I don’t mind him. But dude needs to get back to putting in the prep work or he’s going to become like Madden down the stretch, where the schtick is them not making sense half the time.
they said the Vikings were best in the league on 3rd and 1 and 4th and 1
At one point I know we were absolutely top in the league on 4th down. I don’t know about third and short, but for a few weeks we had only failed on like one 4th down conversion.
I talked to my buddy about Collinsworth after the game and said the exact same thing. His commentary about Mattison was ridiculous. It was one of those, if you’re not informed fully, just keep your mouth shut. Just sounded dumb.
I mean Mattison averaged 4.5 yards per carry last night. Just those damn fumbles.
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”
Chris was pretty unprepared last night and clearly making shit up. Vilma earlier this year was far worse. He didn’t know anything about either team.
C.C. was reincarnated from a used cooking oil vat into his present form; a used syringe receptacle in a filthy gas station bathroom.
i couldn’t believe their little segment on Mattison, and when they said “how hard he is to tackle.” Mattison had a better game yesterday, sure, but he utlimately fumbled again and the Broncos defense is not good at stopping the run.
We need to go prioritize RBs in rounds 4 and 5 this year. And we must bring in a bruiser