Gary Danielson and the "Arrogance" comment
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I was one of those fearing that, or, more accurately, surmising (without any evidence, I hasten to add) that the reason he was not starting over Jalen last year was that he might be exhibiting a carelessness with the ball in practice. His pick in the national championship game was fairly careless, but I am pleased to see carelessness this year has not been a problem. Quite the contrary.I remember the fear some here had of all those INTs he was going to throw...
I hate a turnover as much as anybody. I don't know how many football games I have seen where one team was having its way with their opponent, and then, after one fumble or pick, everything turns around and the other team wins the game. Turnovers kill.
Yeah, we all know what he means. But he's using the wrong word and it doesn't really mean what he thinks it means. There used to be a comedian whose whole routine was misusing words like that. I can't think of his name, but he was really funny.
Danielson is OK but after 5 or 6 Devin White comments I had enough.
I don’t want to mute the game, but it’d be nice if we had the option to mute the announcers.
My my favorite announcers have always been homers. Why doesn’t CBS just air the game with your choice of Eli or Cajun Mouth? It’d be great. One of the reasons I loved Harry Carey was he made the game like you were watching with your best friend while splitting a 6 pack of Bud.
I don’t want to mute the game, but it’d be nice if we had the option to mute the announcers.
My my favorite announcers have always been homers. Why doesn’t CBS just air the game with your choice of Eli or Cajun Mouth? It’d be great. One of the reasons I loved Harry Carey was he made the game like you were watching with your best friend while splitting a 6 pack of Bud.
What word do you suggest he use? It’s true same as saying a kicker has ice in his veins or a basketball player has “onions” when he drains a big shot in the Tournament.
I didn’t know we had so many wordsmiths on here, and I’ve been accused of being the chief of the Grammar Police.
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There is more money in him adding intrigue to the upset possibility than lovingly listing all the ways Alabama Football Is Amazing. We don't have to be served by them any other way than providing the game because we'll be there paying his salary even if you have him on mute. The national audience is the only audience he's there for and they're sick of hearing about how great Alabama is...to the point that they're gonna just bail if the color guy is giving them all the hints that there is no hope.
I find him to be unoffending and relatively knowledgable. If you have a problem with him not wearing kneepads for our team, you need to move on to Eli and JPW.
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Agreed. And frankly, no player is simply "replaced." There isn't another Najee Harris on the team. That is what made last year so amazing; to lose so many to injury and still win it all. You can have all the 5 stars, but they still have to be prepared. I guarantee you it's amazingly difficult, and it's why CNS is the absolute best there is.
Ultimately I'm fine with Gary. I do think he wishes someone out there would challenge us. Any neutral observer would rather the games be nail biters.
When CNS returned to Tiger Stadium for the first time as Alabama's coach in 2008, there was a play in the second half, where Cory Reamer forced Jarrett Lee out of bounds. Verne, without hesitation, said, "Nice play by Rolando McClain".
Not sure how you can confuse Cory Reamer with Rolando McClain, but it happened.
Perhaps he's saying "conscious" and I'm just not hearing him correctly. Conscious means being aware of one's surroundings or being concerned or worried about something. So if he has no conscious, then he's not aware of his surroundings or not worried about the outcome. But that's not a good word, either. I do think he's very aware and concerned about the outcome.
It would be better to simply say that Tua throws with extreme confidence, or with little doubt that he can make the play, or without hesitation, or something like that. Conscience (or conscious) is not the right word.
Verne has had some doozies over the years. If I remember correctly he used to be bad about mispronouncing Rolando's name as "Rocardo McCain" or something like that.
There was definitely an "Orlando McCain" used over the years. I also remember "Freddie Road."
Regardless, I miss Uncle Verne. He had a way of conveying the excitement of the moment unlike any other and he seemed so joyful just to be there.
Arrogance is clearly what he said. But I do not think he meant it like most are taking it,
Maybe because I was younger, it never felt that way about Jackson and Broyles.
As Coach Saban is a once in a generation coach, so was Jackson a once in a generation college football announcer. He was simply born to do it.
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