Friday, August 18, 2006

Jaws: The New Coatesy



Ron Jaworski must be stopped before he hurts someone. Normally, I love Jaws’ insightful commentary on Monday Night Primetime and Edge NFL Matchup, but his analysis of the Birds this preseason has gone way overboard.

During yesterday’s Daily News Live, Jaws laid the following comments on Michael Barkann and his crew:

1. Not only is Hank Baskett the biggest story in the Eagles’ camp, but he’s the BIGGEST preseason story in the entire NFL.

2. Had Correll Buckhalter not been so injury prone, the Eagles would have won two Super Bowls.
These comments were followed up on last night’s Eagles/Ravens telecast with “BUCK IS BACK!!!” right after Buckhalter’s 48 yard catch and run during the first quarter of last night’s game. Nano seconds before Jaws’ excited utterance, I predicted to my buddy, Mister Nascar, that he would say the exact same thing as we watched the 10th replay of the cleverly designed shuttle pass. Unfortunately, not only is the commentary from “new Jaws” ridiculous, but also predictable.

I can only come up with one plausible explanation for the change in Jaws. He must be hanging out too much with Stephen A. Smith and Michael Irvin at the ESPN studios.

Even if that’s the case, I’m going to give Jaws a pass and wait to see a couple of episodes of Edge Matchup. However, if breaks out Stephen A’s “and whatnot” just one time, I’m done with him.

2 comments:

George said...

I think that Jaworski wants to endear himself to Philadelphia as much as he can in order to help sell his arena football franchise.

Philly Phan said...

Hmmm....interesting point.