It's gotta be tough to try to come up with stuff to talk about for 3 hours straight and remain interesting. That being said, he's terrible at it. He's always struck me as being very flat and stoic, with not much of a personality. Not that any of that's a knock on him as a person, but those are not qualities that transition well to being someone that people want to listen to for a whole football game.
Great point and when a game is not interesting, Buck/Aikman have a relationship to fall back on and Aikman plays the straight man. Last Sunday, the Cowboys game was losing steam and Nantz got Romo off on that McGregor tangent about him throwing that pass and they turned that into a light segment but they have history. They're golf buddies and Nantz started the ball rolling to get Romo.
Witten has just been thrown in there with two guys he doesn't know and they're new to the scene as well. They really don't have a lot to talk about except what's going on down on the field. They are all game dependent. What Witten needs is Romo beside him and if it gets boring, they could talk about how nice Jessica's hoobahs were in Cabo. And get all of us riled up all over again. (sigh) I miss those days.
A lot of these guys can't help it, they're just boring. Remember Montana? Talk about a fish out of water. But then there's the other extreme like Bradshaw and Strahan, gag me with a shoehorn. I absolutely detest Bradshaw.
Many here are too young to remember my favorite one, Alex Karras. Now, I would watch a game that he was doing just to get one of his trademark dry one liners delivered in that deadpan style. Remember the night Otis Sistrunk was sitting on the bench with steam coming off that bald head? University of Mars, I laughed long time over that one. And when he was asked where the worst fans are by Johnny Carson he replied "Philly, they gather at Easter and boo the kids that don't find any eggs".
Hell, they can replace every one of those color guys with comics for my 2 cents. Love to hear Bill Burr and Tom Segura doing games. I know most didn't like Dennis Miller on MNF but I loved him. You think some football player is going to respond to what he did during the day in Nashville with "visited the sequin mines"?