Mike Pereira: Gruden Is A Blowhard

[pbmax]

via: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...talking-about/

h/t: http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/m...-saints-122811

I admit to thoroughly enjoying this:

1. Gruden is a blowhard
2. Gruden as coach disrespected officials
3. Gruden is ill informed about league rules
4. Gruden has ignored a basic responsibility of a game broadcaster to at least acknowledge the actual rule in question before criticizing it or its application

THIS guy (Pereira) also blasted Gruden on Twitter Monday night while THAT guy (Gruden) was doing the game.

Pereira was the public face of NFL officiating during a serious of contentious and confusing rules changes. So he is not my favorite person, even if he is not directly responsible for the changes. I do think he has added to the confusion at times, especially over the catch not a catch rulings in the endzone.

But on the helmet to helmet hits on defenseless players, he has been far more clear and Gruden deserved getting this knock upside his head.

[Fritz]

That Gruden is a blowhard who doesn't do his homework before broadcasting games simply makes him a lot like many ex-coaches, ex-jocks, and ex-comdians who go into sports broadcasting.

I am not a fan of Jon Gruden. At all. The couple times I watched his Monday Night segment in which he sits down with a young QB to talk football I squirmed in discomfort. It was like watching an older man give a younger man a blowjob. Eww.

[hoosier]

The couple times I watched his Monday Night segment in which he sits down with a young QB to talk football I squirmed in discomfort. It was like watching an older man give a younger man a blowjob. Eww.

I thought blowhard had a different meaning.

[sheepshead]

Mike Pereira is a fucking tool. How this guy has a platform for anything is beyond me. I find Gruden entertaining. I like some of his stories. Mike Pereira can blow me, his input is totally unnecessary in my opinion.

[sharpe1027]

IMO, Gruden offers very little substance but he's probably there more for entertainment, which is surprising for an ex-coach. While I do not have the expertise to comment on Fritz's analogy, listening to Gruden sometimes makes me want to reach through the television and give him a hard slap across the face and ask him what the hell he is talking about.

I am looking forward to further advances in technology that will allow for selection of announcers and/or individual muting options. The selection should include a radio broadcast feed that is synchronized to the television feed. Currently, if you turn on the radio, there's a very annoying few second difference between the feeds.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Thanks you Pereira, or should I say... Captain Obvious

[Lurker64]

I'm not the former VP of officiating, but I have to say that Gruden (and other people) railing against the (fairly clear) defenseless player rule this year really pisses me off. You're not allowed to hit anybody considered "defenseless" in the head with your helmet, arm, shoulder, ass, or any part of your body. You can still hit a player, whether or not he is "defenseless" in any non-head part of his body with any non-head part of your body.

This is not a hard rule to understand.

[Scott Campbell]

I think what Fox has done with Pereira is the most innovative broadcasting advancement since they started superimposing the yellow first down line. It certainly makes the downtime during official play reviews more entertaining.

[pbmax]

Mike Pereira is a fucking tool. How this guy has a platform for anything is beyond me. I find Gruden entertaining. I like some of his stories. Mike Pereira can blow me, his input is totally unnecessary in my opinion.

So you like Gruden. But did he tell you anything useful about that hit and penalty Monday night? Because that is the topic at hand.

[Zool]

Gruden should be on a broadcasting team with Theismann and Joe Buck. That would be 3 hours of nonsensical gibberish.

[sharpe1027]

Gruden was advocating for direct blows to the head of a receiver that has no opportunity to protect himself. Perhaps Gruden didn't mean to do that. Maybe he was just speaking from a place of ignorance or stupidity.

I like that Pereira recites the rules. That way I don't have to look it up on google or listen to an announcer misstate the rule. I could care less about his opinion on the outcome of specific review and play in question.

[sheepshead]

So you like Gruden. But did he tell you anything useful about that hit and penalty Monday night? Because that is the topic at hand.

I didnt see it. I dont really care, broadcastings a tough job and I like Gruden over all. I cant stand Mike Pereira and hopes he fades away fast. He's a tool.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Mike Pereira is a fucking tool.

+1

Gruden speaks his mind, and his opinions about calls are reasonable.

Pereira doesn't like criticism of his peeps, boo hoo

[Harlan Huckleby]

Gruden was advocating for direct blows to the head of a receiver that has no opportunity to protect himself.

Not sure what specific comment you are refering too, but Gruden would do no such thing. Yes, he is on the side of more aggressive football, but these things are subjective. I have agreed with every objection I've heard from Gruden. Gruden knows the rules and respects the intention of the rules, he just sides with a more "let them play" interpretation.

[sheepshead]

I think what Fox has done with Pereira is the most innovative broadcasting advancement since they started superimposing the yellow first down line. It certainly makes the downtime during official play reviews more entertaining.

You're kidding right?