ESPN was terrible this weekend. My wife was yelling at the t.v. for them talking too much, and her face whenever Irvin spoke was priceless! I agree ESPN is all about fluff these days. I don't bother with regular ESPN anymore, I just watch ESPN News. The worst part of ESPN was them cutting away from the draft to go to commercial when a team had less than a minute left on the clock. As soon as they were all done spewing whatever crap they were trying to say, they would cut away. Even worse, when they would cut the ticker away during commercials. At least when the ticker was up I could see who was being picked! If I had NFL Network I would have watched it there.
I was at the draft, and one thing I noticed: NFL Network lagged about 5 seconds behind ESPN's coverage. NFL Network was much more football oriented, but I kept switching to try to find out any scoop I could.
ESPN has been bad for several years now. We have Disney to thank for that. They've turned it into a spoon-fed sports channel for dummies...
The coverage was absolutely the worst I could remember it ever being. Berman gave away each pick prior to Tag's going up to the podium..........I had to watch the NFL Network over it and that was almost as bad.
NFL network was more for the football fan. ESPN is becoming to much like MTV. I can do without watching these college kids emulate pimps for the opening promo. It was embarrasing and useless. I do like Jaws and Hodge though. (How can you not? They both said Clemens would be a better pro than The big 3)
They were horrbile with player interviews. The feeds kept breaking up. Slow with trade announcements. Barely seemed interested in the third round selections. Overall a mediocre job.
ESPN SUCKED and Irvin was his normal idiotic self...that man is so dumb!! I didn't mind NFL Network's coverage and watched that most of the time and unless I was able to catch Jaws and them guys talking on ESPN but as soon as they went back to dumb & dumber I turned it back to the network!
I didn't like how when round 2 started, they just did the "current" selection on the bottom of the screen instead of having the podium shot of the pick being selected...Do your talkin in round 3 or whatever, but round 2 was pretty lame in terms of coverage and all.
I thought the NFL Network coverage was quite good. It seemed very on point and insightful. Mayock and Chavous were impressive in the things they said. It was far from perfect, but I actually watched both coverages and thought NFL was better. Rich Eisen seemed a bit out of place, but ESPN this year was not very good. ( Except for when they got super excited about Clemens and basically said he was the best QB in the draft) ESPN spent too much time on peripheral things and too much rehashing of the top picks. Did not like the Salisbury roundtable at all. Trent Green really adds nothing and come across really arrogant. Still I enjoyed it, especially since the Jets did a great job. NFL Network may be my first choice next year.
