{"id":415969,"date":"2023-01-12T20:49:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=415969"},"modified":"2023-01-12T20:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T20:49:33","slug":"troy-aikman-questions-quality-of-nfl-play-hows-this-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/troy-aikman-questions-quality-of-nfl-play-hows-this-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Aikman Questions Quality Of NFL Play: How&#8217;s This Professional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SI Media Podcast this week included ESPN&#8217;s Troy Aikman, who again bemoaned the level of play in the NFL this year.<\/p>\n<p>During one of his press conferences earlier this season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/tom-brady\/\">Tom Brady<\/a> was questioned about parity in the NFL. The eventual Hall of Famer was blunt about what he believed parity to actually entail.<\/p>\n<p>According to what I watch, there is a lot of awful football, Brady claimed. &#8220;I watch a lot of lousy football, a lot of football of poor quality,&#8221; the speaker said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Buck&#39;s explanation of what he and Troy Aikman saw from the booth is chilling <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uSUM8ly1DT\">pic.twitter.com\/uSUM8ly1DT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Brown \ud83c\udf3b (@BenBrownPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenBrownPL\/status\/1610117763997081603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Troy Aikman Questions Quality Of NFL Play: How&#8217;s This Professional?<\/h2>\n<p>Aikamn initiated the conversation by inquiring of the Monday Night Football analyst whether the NFL might ever hold future AFC and NFC championship games at neutral locations. The NFL may be testing the waters with this year&#8217;s AFC title game, which will be played at a neutral site if it involves the Bills, Chiefs, or Bengals, Peter King said earlier this week on Chris Russo&#8217;s SiriusXM radio show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Troy Aikman shared his concern for the NFL\u2019s on-field product and poor quality of play <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aAEsNOP2Md\">https:\/\/t.co\/aAEsNOP2Md<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sports Illustrated (@SInow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SInow\/status\/1613589280269504526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t like that,\u201d said Aikman, \u201cand there\u2019s this side of me that thinks, well, I\u2019m more of a traditionalist, but there is the side of me that thinks, gosh, if everybody had thought like I thought we\u2019d still be playing a 12-game schedule and things would look a lot different, but I think we have to be really, really careful as a league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters, Suzy Kolber, Adam Schefter and Booger McFarland did a great job in an impossible spot tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ryan Glasspiegel (@sportsrapport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportsrapport\/status\/1610107823551021056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say, the NFL, they\u2019re really good at making a lot of money. They\u2019re really good at that. And I don\u2019t begrudge them for that. I say good for them and the marketing of the NFL. And we watch the popularity of the sport and out of the top 100 shows, 80 something of them were NFL games this year. I love all that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Troy Aikman, via this week\u2019s SI MEDIA PODCAST (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xB8VRk0N4b\">https:\/\/t.co\/xB8VRk0N4b<\/a>), on being in the stadium and on the air during Damar Hamlin\u2019s medical emergency. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UZ0kRmVIEB\">pic.twitter.com\/UZ0kRmVIEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimmyTraina\/status\/1613605215894396928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just would like to see more emphasis on improving the product on the field. I\u2019d like to see that there\u2019s some interest in that as well. It seems like all these decisions are made to increase revenue, which is great, but then it\u2019s less time on the field for players, and then it\u2019s less time here, and the product begins to erode a little bit, and and I think we\u2019ve got to be really, really careful about that and I\u2019ve been saying that for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anybody getting into broadcasting: when a situation like this happens, handle it like Suzy Kolber, Adam Schefter, Booger McFarland, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be Skip Bayless<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chase Senior (@Chase_Senior) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chase_Senior\/status\/1610116530473242624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When asked to elaborate on the product eroding, Aikman said, \u201cI think it\u2019s the fundamentals of the sport. Football is the only sport that you can\u2019t practice the way that you play it. All the other sports get to go practice and then go and play. In football you don\u2019t and so we see the fundamentals of tackling aren\u2019t what they once were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/gsiller23\/status\/1613021966092337157?s=20&#038;t=aw1-_NwzxT8Bp_bKMpLk_gnbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aikman added, \u201cThere were games that we watched, and I won\u2019t say what network most of them were on, and I had to ask myself, \u2018Is this professional football?\u2019 There was some bad bad football being played, and that\u2019s not good!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Troy Aikman tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dfwticket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@dfwticket<\/a> he doesn&#39;t think most players and coaches get excited playing on Monday night. It makes for a long week leading up to it, and then there is a short week going into your next game.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Lane (@therealmarklane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therealmarklane\/status\/1613538648712179712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t take a genius to figure out that Aikman was talking about Thursday Night Football and Amazon Prime. I questioned Aikman about whether he was relieved that he didn&#8217;t end up at Amazon considering how poorly the TNF schedule ended out, since it had seemed for a long that he would join Amazon to call TNF before joining ESPN.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In honor of Damar Hamlin, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Buck<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TroyAikman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TroyAikman<\/a> and our production team turned the ESPN mic flags around for tonight&#39;s open. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BTH2RrIfZL\">pic.twitter.com\/BTH2RrIfZL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNPR\/status\/1611893359853056000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We also talked about Aikman&#8217;s first season as the voice of Monday Night Football, his experience during Damar Hamlin&#8217;s medical emergency while in the stadium and on the air, his thoughts on this weekend&#8217;s wild-card games, why Tom Brady is still competing at a high level at age 45, and much more during the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bcHBnMrWR24\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE NFL UPDATES-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/reports-texas-hs-football-players-hospitalized-after-coach-forces-400-push-ups-as-punishment\/\">Reports: Texas HS Football Players Hospitalized After Coach Forces 400 Push-ups As Punishment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SI Media Podcast this week included ESPN&#8217;s Troy Aikman, who again bemoaned the level of play in the NFL this year. During one of his press conferences earlier this season, Tom Brady was questioned about parity in the NFL. The eventual Hall of Famer was blunt about what he believed parity to actually entail. 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