Sort of a follow-up to an earlier Deion thread... Watching NFLN after the Skins/Giants game, Rich Eisen, Deion Sanders, and Steve Mariucchi were discussing the weekends top games. After discussing the Browns/Pokes game, Eisen brought up the Dolphins/Jets. He asked Deion if the Dolphins had a chance in this game. Deion's answer was, "I'm not going to spend my 30 allotted seconds talking about the Miami Dolphins." Wow. Just wow. Thanks for the insight, Prime Time. Thank you for wasting my 10 seconds. There's enough good on the NFLN that Deion doesn't spoil it for me, but man, every time I hear him now on the network, it has the taste of the one bad apple...
Let him have his opinions, the wagon will be much lighter without false fans riding along. I would rather let them all eat a big pile of crap when Miami rises to the top of the league again. Maybe not this season - but it will happen under Parcells I feel.
Sanders is a moron... the only reason he's even on tv is just to stir the pot. I dont think i've ever heard him say something that even makes sense.
Really though, isn't the NFLN buffering a product? Aren't they trying to make NFL fans more interested in the product than less? Just seems like the little he says when the Dolphins come up is something that's counter-productive to that message. I'm sure most fans that watch the NFLN are basically already sold - but at the same time, aren't these the hardcore fans that are looking for true analysis or information about their teams. Schefter provides good info. Most of the analysts over the years and currently - Dukes, Woodson, etc. - generally try to provide some insight as most of them played or coached the game and have experience the mass of fans don't have. And then you have Deion that can't say anything but make a sweeping generalization and mockery of one of the teams. This time, I think Eisen tried to get something from him saying, "C'mon, there's a new regime, a new quarterback." Which Deion dismissed with, "Their best player is out here (referencing JT being a Redskin)." Mariucchi sort of saved things with a quick line or two about how getting Chad Pennington will help this team. Seeing Deion joke the first time was pretty meh, but if it's going to be over and over with no value added, it's going to be old like yesterday. You were a great cover corner, Deion, at least tell me something about our defensive backs - even if you think all of them are terrible. I don't care, just tell me something... anything. ____ On a different note (after seeing Ludacris' Neon Deion pic), one of my favorite Deion quotes from his youth - as I'm an Auburn fan - in regards to playing two sports, football and baseball, was this: "Bo Jackson plays football and baseball as does well. Prime Time will play football and baseball and excel." Humorous self-promotion. He was 1 for 2 on that count... but, Bo was 2 for 2, being an All-Star in both sports. NFL football careers in isolation, though, I have to admit that Deion had the better career - but that was mostly because of the short length of Bo's career, both on the front side and back side after his injury. Both of them were pretty outstanding football players. Deion would have been better if he made a tackle, but no way to knock his coverage ability. However, if he keeps up this rhetoric on the NFLN, I will continue to knock his analyst ability.
They use this clown to get interviews with the other clowns - Terrell Owens, Pacman, Ocho Cinco, and such. The "Prime Time" clown is their hero. They do not dare deny him as he is viewed as the old school clown. Deion Sanders doesn't know a damn thing about football. God blessed him with speed and he has milked every dollar out of it that he possibly could.
Exactly what I was thinking. I don't know how the NFLN keeps letting him get away with this crap. That's a BS response. If you don't wanna analyze all 32 teams then get the hell out of there.
The thing that surprises me about this is that Deion he grew up in Ft. Myers FLORIDA. In the heart of Dolphin country (when they were an elite team I might add). This bias towards the Phins must have come from somewhere. Nobody disses a team that badly that many times unless there is more to the story.
There's Michael Irvin, who I believe to be a fantastic color commentator filled with excitement and verve. Then there's the wannabe Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders. He's a joke of a football analyst. If I ran the NFLN, I'd have gone after Irvin instead of Sanders when he left ESPN.
I said this in the other thread but the guy despises Bill Parcells and was one of the few who hated that Miami celebrated after avoiding a winless season. He also thinks he is above it all.
Honestly, this is probably due to the fact that Deion isn't an actual journalist. He's just another 'star player' that got a commentary job based upon his accolades on the field... and not on his ability to provide actual, real commentary. The guy is an idiot. He knows very little about the current NFL (outside of Dallas, Indianapolis, or New England), and nothing about the Dolphins. He didn't do his homework. He bailed out to save himself from looking foolish, but he still sounds like a lazy lunkhead to me that does his job half-assed and just collects a check. I have no idea how guys like Deion, Emmitt (who is equally unbearable), and Irvin hold their jobs when the networks could hire intelligent, insightful, and more importantly... credible... journalists to easily replace them with a much better product.
95% of everyone on the NFLN is a joke, seriously. They're pretty damn bad. Well, all the former star players are at least. They need to get some unknown real journalists/analysts in there.
I actually thought that Irvin improved tremendously from when he started at ESPN, to when they fired him. It surprised me when they let him go.
He's a semihole and hates all things Miami.. because we OWNED his team.. he never beat us and in 1988 they were ranked number one and we beat them 31-0
The guy is so full of himself. Howard Stern used to play clips of him hosting some beauty pageant where he's asking the contestants all those questions like "What would you do if you ruled the world?". I'm sure that he thought he sounded smooth talking to these chicks, but he just sounded pompous.
He's allowed his opinion, no matter how much we hate it, and since he's on TV he gets to televise it. If I don't like whats on TV, I'll change the channel. If I sit there and hate what I'm seeing/hearing then its only my own fault.
HAHA, I've always liked Him, next year he'll be talking about some other team and how much they blow...........come on guys, they all do it.I know it doesn't make it right, but that's what happens to 1-15 teams. Jim Rome wasn't the only am radio guy looking for us to go 0-16 last year.David Stein was talking about it almost every night for like six weeks.Then when Miami won , he was all upset, cuzz he wanted to see " history ".Then he went on about that for weeks. Anyways my point is Stein talk about it all the time, yet no one here talks about it ,,, odd.
They don't know anything which is why they say that lol. They're all boneheads that have as much knowledge of the teams as my 5 year old nephew does. Can't believe they actually get paid for this.
I just don't respect poor analysis. When an analyst repeatedly does that I avoid the show. It has nothing to do with his opinion of the Dolphins. For me it's about my opinion of his analytical ability.
If it doesn't have to do with the Dallas Cowboys or Pacman Jones, Deion isn't interested in it. I like Deion because he's funny, but thats all he brings. Marshall Faulk is just a pain to watch as well. I'd appreciate it if the show contained just Rich Eisen, Steve Mariucchi, Jim Mora and random player (Sapp, Woodson, Dukes).
I'm trying to think of an example on any other network, any pregame show or football related programs where any team, not just the Dolphins, was dismissed so trivially by a paid analyst. There are some bad analysts, color commentators, and so-called experts, but I really can't think of anyone - not Irvin, not Bradshaw, not any of the "goofier" guys - that made a statement akin to Deion's offensive (to a fan like myself): "I'm not going to waste my 30 seconds on Team X". Does somebody have one? Sure you can turn the channel, but after that 30 seconds of the dead air that is Deion (not) talking about the Dolphins, they might talk about something worth hearing regarding another game and I'll have missed it. It doesn't matter if you're 0-16 historically awful or 8-8 for the thirty second year in a row, if you're an NFL team, then analysts on NFL shows should have some idea about your team and have some type of insightful comment. Now, if I'm watching a home-decorating show and one of her guests brings up the 1-15 Miami Dolphins, I have no problem with Martha Stewart dismissing them out of hand. If I'm watching Kudlow & Company and Kudlow asks some stock analyst about the Dolphins, and he makes a joke about how bad they are, I'm okay with that. Those aren't NFL shows. But if I'm watching the NFLN or ESPN Gameday or CBS Pregame Show or Inside the NFL, shows that in some way advertise the NFL product, then I expect more than a dismissal. Is that too much to ask?
I wouldn't wanna waste my 30 seconds photoshopping the mouth that roars with no real insight to any football related topic
He does this because it sells.. Look at us talking about Primetime's comments... It sold. Welcome to sports journalism.