Tag: Jamie Erdahl

Jamie Erdahl ranks Broncos as a top-5 team in the AFC

NFL Network’s Jamie Erdahl ranked the Bills, Steelers, Chiefs, Ravens and Broncos as the top-five teams in the AFC.

The Denver Broncos have been hot in recent weeks and NFL Network’s Jamie Erdahl is buying into the hype.

Erdahl recently ranked the Broncos as the fifth-best team in the AFC.

“I like Sean Payton, I’m getting on the Peter Schrager Sean Payton bandwagon,” Erdahl said on Good Morning Football earlier this week. “I think it’s very dangerous when you have a coach come in, the second year into the system, he has created a culture and a dynamic … he got his quarterback, [and they have a] really good defense.”

Erdahl has the Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens and Broncos ranked as the top teams in the conference.

Erdahl ranked Denver above teams including the Los Angeles Chargers (7-3) and Houston Texans (7-4). Right now, both those teams sit above the Broncos in the AFC’s playoff picture.

Fans in Denver will hope that Erdahl’s rankings prove to be accurate at the end of the season.

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FAU’s Johnell Davis accidentally swore on TV after his epic NCAA tournament win and the broadcast was so chill about it

“We’re on truTV, man.”

After taking down No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson and making men’s NCAA tournament history, No. 9 Florida Atlantic University sophomore guard Johnell Davis accidentally dropped a curse word in his postgame interview.

While talking with reporter Jamie Erdahl, Davis spoke to what he’s been trying to prove in his career and accidentally said the “s-word” while giving his answer.

“It happens to all of us; we’re on truTV, man,” Erdahl said to ease Davis’ concern after he dropped a PG-13 swear on national television.

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Hey, we’ve all said this word at some point in our life, so nobody hate on Davis for giving an honest answer in a very routine setting.

Davis earned the right to say what was on his mind after he set a men’s NCAA tournament record with 25-plus points, 10-plus recounds, five-plus assists and five-plus steals in a tournament game.

Florida Atlantic has emerged as one of the coolest stories of the tournament, and now they’ve got a Sweet 16 berth to add to the list.

Jamie Erdahl named the new host of Good Morning Football

The NFL Network announced that Jamie Erdahl will be the new host of Good Morning Football.

The NFL Network officially announced on Monday that Jamie Erdahl was named the new host of Good Morning Football. Kay Adams, the previous host of Good Morning Football, announced in May that she was stepping away and is rumored to be heading to Amazon as the streaming service is bolstering their football coverage.

The NFL Network shared the announcement on social media Monday morning:

As noted, Erdahl brings a ton of experience to the table in her new role. She began her broadcasting career with New England Sports Network (NESN) covering both the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Bruins, as well as hosting news shows in-studio. She then joined CBS Sports, working as the lead sideline reporter for the network’s SEC coverage, along as covering the NFL and NCAA basketball.

Jamie Erdahl replacing Kay Adams on ‘Good Morning Football’

Jamie Erdahl is leaving CBS Sports to take Kay Adams’ spot on Good Morning Football

The seat vacated by Kay Adams on the popular NFL Network show “Good Morning Football,” will be filled by Jamie Erdahl.

Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reported Tuesday that the CBS host and sideline reporter since 2014 will be stepping onto the panel, joining Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt & Co.

Per The Post:

Most recently, she has been a sideline reporter for the network’s SEC Game of the Week in football, and also worked the sidelines for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

Adams left “Good Morning Football” this past May after having been the host of the program since its inception in 2016.

CBS sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl whips Alabama gridders in basketball game

A CBS sideline reporter schooled a trio of Alabama basketball players in a basketball game

It’s a good thing you have to be great to play football at Alabama.

A trio of Crimson Tide football players was schooled by CBS sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl in a game of P-I-G.

They didn’t play H-O-R-S-E as Erdahl astutely set up the rules because ‘Bama was playing the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday.

The Crimson Tide defeated Arkansas, 42-35, to earn a date in the SEC Championship Game against top-ranked Georgia.

The genesis of the challenge came because Alabama junior safety Jordan Battle boasted he was the best hoops player on the Alabama football team.

The other foes were star quarterback Bryce Young and junior wideout Jameson Williams.

Awful Announcing provided some information on Erdahl’s hoops prowess.

Erdahl played basketball and softball at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, setting a still-standing single-season assist record of 129 in basketball in the 2008-09 season.

The ‘Bama trio of gridders were hustled by a ringer as it turned out.

Well played, Jamie Erdahl.

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Sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl gracefully stepped in when CBS lost its announcing booth

Wow.

One thing we’re probably not nearly aware enough about, as fans, is how complicated it is to broadcast any sport — but especially one as intricate as football.

You’d probably be flabbergasted by the cost of the equipment and the sheer number of people involved in bringing you a game. Or the amount of time spent preparing to make those few hours on Saturday happen on your screen. Because on your end, the experience is usually just two people in a booth and one on a sideline. It seems simple.

Yet a snafu in Saturday’s Alabama-LSU game show just how delicate the whole operation is — and forced sideline reporter Jamie Erdahl to react quickly after the men calling the game, Brad Nessler and Gary Danielson, were dropped from the broadcast.

Erdahl took over the call for about two minutes of game time, which is an enormously difficult task. Unlike Nessler and Danielson, she’s seeing the game from the sideline, which is the absolute worst vantage point for describing what’s going on in football. The reason she’s down there, after all, is to capture the emotion of the players and describe the goings on on each sideline. She supposed to be in the weeds a bit, not seeing the game clearly.

Besides that, Erdahl presumably did not have rosters and notes in front of her, and had not prepared during the week for the role she found herself in. She had help from the production truck, sure, but if you’ve ever had a voice literally in your ear while trying to think and react you know how hard that can be.

Erdahl was quick to credit what she’s learned from Nessler, Danielson  and other mentors — and to use this as a teachable moment for sideline reporters.

The internet loved Erdahl’s work under pressure:

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