Someone Tell Me What Witten Is Trying To Say Here?

[TheCount]

Oh look ........ another let's make fun of one of the greatest Cowboys of all time thread

lol.
It's okay to recognize he's a great Cowboy AND that he sucks at his new job. Two things can be true.

 

[charron]

I love witten the player, but their entire broadcast team is terrible.

 

[zrinkill]

lol.
It's okay to recognize he's a great Cowboy AND that he sucks at his new job. Two things can be true.

Sorry Count but recognizing he is not good at his new job after 10 weeks is not the same as starting thread after thread mocking him.

 

[TheCount]

Sorry Count but recognizing he is not good at his new job after 10 weeks is not the same as starting thread after thread mocking him.

I haven't seen thread-after-thread, maybe you're right, but this was a pretty big flub during the highest rated monday night game in history. A lot of people saw it, so it's gone a bit viral.

 

[zrinkill]

I haven't seen thread-after-thread, maybe you're right, but this was a pretty big flub during the highest rated monday night game in history. A lot of people saw it, so it's gone a bit viral.

I admit I am sensitive about it because Witt is one of my favorites......... to me it's just like someone mocking Roger or Woody or Romo

 

[Nightman]

 

[Blake]

I admit I am sensitive about it because Witt is one of my favorites......... to me it's just like someone mocking Roger or Woody or Romo

Witt sucks at broadcasting. He should be fired.

 

[rags747]

For next year I think ESPN should put Emmitt and Witten in the booth together...It would be Legendary!!!

 

[zrinkill]

Witt sucks at broadcasting. He should be fired.

Feel better now tough boy

 

[Blake]

For next year I think ESPN should put Emmitt and Witten in the booth together...It would be Legendary!!!

Dialogue would be completely incomprehensible.

 

[rags747]

Dialogue would be completely incomprehensible.

But I'm sitting here just laughing at my own bs line but it really would be so freaking entertaining. Saturday Night Live really needs to pick up on this for a skit

 

[Plankton]

Dialogue would be completely incomprehensible.

They would need to add subtitles.

 

[Roadtrip635]

For next year I think ESPN should put Emmitt and Witten in the booth together...It would be Legendary!!!

I would definitely watch that, must watch TV for sure.

 

[Blake]

They would need to add subtitles.

Senior citizens everywhere will long for Pat and Madden, as they curse at this "new" broadcasting generation and the current state of our education system; that allows two seemingly illiterate bozos to have a career in the booth .

 

[Roadtrip635]

But I'm sitting here just laughing at my own bs line but it really would be so freaking entertaining. Saturday Night Live really needs to pick up on this for a skit

There's somebody already doing a Witten skit on a podcast or YouTube.

 

[Alweezy]

I've always considered it like this:

Tony Romo was the exception. But don't be confused. Romo also has Jim Nantz to navigate the show and give direction from within the booth so the entire product appears more polished.. Nantz sets up Romo well for a lot of his slam dunk analysis.

Also Tony should have had a more natural transition by default just based on our team dynamics.

Tony was the fun, hat backwards, charismatic guy, came from nothing, related to everybody and always sounded conversational in interviews. Witten was the opposite. Hard hat, lunch pail, 9 to 5 straight shooter. Didn't participate in pranks in the clubhouse. Business, corporate.. still a leader, but a different type of communicator.

There's no way ESPN could have thought a guy doing that role for 15 years would flip a switch and be good in the commentary booth without a veteran partner or some sort of improvisational skill. This is what you should get 10/10 when you put someone on Live TV with no script and ask them to wing it. It just seems like if they wanted to recreate the Romo magic, a guy like Booger McFarland was the true pick but they needed the former Cowboy "formula" to help their ratings and added Witten and this is the result of that decision.