Traina Thoughts: "GameDay" backlash; new NFL Network booth plus a Mailbag

I'm gonna start, I'm gonna start with Sunday night and then go back to Sunday morning, because I just want to point this out.

This is not news.

This is not a revelation, but I went back and re-watched this morning the last, like, two, three minutes of Falcons-Ravens, and then just a bit of overtime, because I watched that whole thing live.

We all know Tirico is great.

It goes without saying.

Here's what I want to say about Tirico, and I thought it was really highlighted in that game.

He's probably the best play-by-play guy at, with the clock management timeout stuff.

He...

You know, usually it's the analyst who gets into that, but Mike works it into his play-by-play with timeouts, to how to use timeouts, two-minute warnings.

And, uh, to me, this is a huge thing in how I judge announcers, and we'll get to it with the Commanders and the Giants.

But I wish more analysts would get into the clock management stuff and the, and the thought process that coaches go through in the last two minutes.

Tirico's great at sprinkling that into his play-by-play.

He was so good, so good at the end of that Ravens comeback, so I wanted to just point that out and start with that since that's fresh from Sunday night.

Let's go, though, to Monday morning now.

Excuse me, Sunday morning.

I don't know why I keep mixing up the days.

Sunday morning, 9:30 Eastern, we had one of the international games, and for the second week in a row, it was Dave Pasch, Kurt Warner, Jason Kelce.

And I got a lot of feedback on Twitter during this game, uh, with the main criticism being Jason Kelce talks way too much.

So let me...

Few things on this.

One, I actually have enjoyed this booth.

I, I think Kurt Warner is very underappreciated as an analyst.

I think he's good, and he's, he doesn't really have a full-time job.

He's always done the NFL Network, which is just a handful of games.

He does the Westwood One Radio.