NFL Network’s Rich Eisen is great as a podcaster, radio host and analyst — but he may not be cut out for play-by-play.
In his defense, few media members — or anyone, for that matter — are. The NFL game moves so incredibly fast, and it takes hours and hours of research to become familiar with players on both teams.
That particular area is one that Eisen struggled with immensely during Saturday’s Texans-Bucs game, when he couldn’t even get the two quarterbacks’ names right, on multiple occurrences, while calling the game in the booth. Check out this highlight reel showing the number of times Eisen confused Deshaun Watson for Jameis Winston.
https://twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman/status/1208475860300443648
Twitter had a lot to say about it in roasting him for the countless gaffes.
Rich Eisen keeps calling Watson “Winston” but no one is correcting him pic.twitter.com/F4YNV7VSRJ
— 𝔾 (@BeyoncesKnee) December 21, 2019
https://twitter.com/AubreyBHarwell/status/1208462457464934404
https://twitter.com/LCalluzzo/status/1208461785092837377
Yeesh, tough day at the office.
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