Tony Romo is unfair IMO because football is way, way easier to do colour with quick plays, tons of dead time and a long play clock.
It’s perfect for quick situational and formation based comments. His strength being pre play formation analysis. There is no hockey equivalent to that.
His biggest downside of course, is that he talks too much and it often runs into the PBP after the ball is snapped, but he’s so good, I’ll forgive him that bad habit.
It’s hard to find any nhl broadcaster, studio guy, etc who give good analysis. It’s so hard and requires so much prep work in conjunction with great production crew.
We all know SN has none of this.
Even on the panel, Hrudey used to be way, way better with all these fancy video breakdowns of little things the average viewer or even knowledgeable viewer would almost never pick up on. I’m talking 10 or 15 years ago, whenever it was he first started on HNIC.
But that was when he did a quick 2 minute segment once a week. Now that he talks for like 5 hours a week on the panel, plus colour for the flames, his job is infinitely harder and we all know SN gives him zero behind the scenes support because they fired everyone.
Last edited by Cecil Terwilliger; 02-07-2021 at 10:26 AM.
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