OT: All Rejoice- CBS Dumps Dan Fouts

[RobertWeathers]

A Good Friday indeed....

CBS Sports has let go of its No. 2 NFL game analyst, Dan Fouts, The Post has learned.

CBS is now targeting Fox’s second NFL analyst, Charles Davis, according to sources, as a potential replacement. Fox is trying to retain Davis. CBS has also eyed its own analyst Trent Green as a potential replacement for Fouts next to Ian Eagle.

The move with Fouts is unrelated to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy. Fouts’ contract concluded at the end of this season.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/10/cbs-dumps-dan-fouts-eyes-charles-davis-in-nfl-booth-shakeup/

 

[Ross12]

This is incredible news

 

[Jangles]

Very welcome news in these trying times

 

[oldrover]

Fours would have been a decent analyst if he could have kept his bias out of his commentary.






And now that I’ve said that, back to the Coronavirus thread!

 

[102 Pat]

But, but who will show biased against the Patriots when they commentate?

 

[captain stone]

Even people in Ireland think this is great news...

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Greg Gumbel should replace Ian Eagle as the number 2 play by play...

 

[jah]

It seemed like only a few years ago, Ian Eagle was relegated to mostly Browns and Bills games. How did he climb the ladder?

 

[oldrover]

It seemed like only a few years ago, Ian Eagle was relegated to mostly Browns and Bills games. How did he climb the ladder?

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that he's the radio play by play announcer for the Jets.

 

[farn]

I don’t mine Eye-in’ Eagle. But Fouts stunk. Imagine the disparity between Romo and he.

 

[goheels22002]

I am going to miss Dan Fouts. No matter how many beers I drank as a Patriots game went along, Dan Fouts was always at least two steps behind seeing what actually happened right in front of his eyes. His kids should take away the car keys.

 

[blackglass3]

"The PATRIOTS should be penalized on that play, not (insert Pats opponent)!"

Every. Single. Game.

Every. Single. Penalty.

 

[Koma]

Fouts should have seen this coming. With CBS mainly doing AFC games and Brady moving to Tampa Bay, Fouts’ ability to claim every Brady throwaway was intentional grounding was useless.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Greg Gumbel should replace Ian Eagle as the number 2 play by play...

Gumbel was the number 1 guy 15 years ago until he was replaced by Nantz. Never thought Nantz was a huge upgrade; Gumbel seemed perfectly reasonable and better than Fox’ number 1 in Joe Buck. Why he then got demoted to #3 is beyond me. His brother was a bad NFL announcer, but Greg is pretty decent.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

A Good Friday indeed....





https://nypost.com/2020/04/10/cbs-dumps-dan-fouts-eyes-charles-davis-in-nfl-booth-shakeup/

Trent Green is a pretty decent color guy, he’s be a fine choice to replace Fouts. But as I said in the prior post, why not just promote the whole Gumbel-Green team as the #2? They’ve got on-air chemistry already and both are worthy of the spot individually.

 

[italian pat patriot]

I like both Nantz and Gumbel

Romo was an awesome surprise at analyst

The best for sure

Trent Green is not bad at all...with Gumbel he would be a perfect nr 2 crew

 

[SHOWTIME15]

Gumbel was the number 1 guy 15 years ago until he was replaced by Nantz. Never thought Nantz was a huge upgrade; Gumbel seemed perfectly reasonable and better than Fox’ number 1 in Joe Buck. Why he then got demoted to #3 is beyond me. His brother was a bad NFL announcer, but Greg is pretty decent.

Ian Eagle was a radio host at WFAN in NY back in the 90s...not sure how he ended up in broadcasting. He's a JETE fan I believe. Agree on Gumbel - he has a decent voice, along with Nantz, that is not irritating.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

on the week when terry bradshaw said brady is not better than fouts

 

[TheRainMaker]

Gumbel was the number 1 guy 15 years ago until he was replaced by Nantz. Never thought Nantz was a huge upgrade; Gumbel seemed perfectly reasonable and better than Fox’ number 1 in Joe Buck. Why he then got demoted to #3 is beyond me. His brother was a bad NFL announcer, but Greg is pretty decent.

Anyone remember Nantz’s first year in 2004? Holy crap is was like he never left the golf course. It took him quite some to time to up his energy and Romo finally helped him wake up.

 

[Uptown]