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Scott Hanson calmly continued to host NFL RedZone as an alarm blared in the studio

Scott Hanson is an absolute pro.

The NFL RedZone crew found themselves in a bit of a predicament on Sunday night.

As the late Sunday games were winding down, with the highlight being a back and forth Philadelphia Eagles versus Buffalo Bills matchup, an alarm starting blaring during the NFL RedZone broadcast. While false alarms happen all the time, host Scott Hanson and the rest of the NFL RedZone crew were told to evacuate the building on air in the middle of their broadcast!

Here’s how the initial alarm and evacuation happened on NFL RedZone, with Hanson’s narration of the incident.

Thankfully, it seemed as if it was safe enough for Hanson to return, as he came back to finish off the broadcast a few moments later.

After the broadcast, Hanson took to Twitter to provide a much-needed update on the situation.

It’s a relief to know the NFL RedZone crew ended up safe after all that! Here’s how NFL fans reacted to the sudden alarm and Hanson’s calm coverage of it.

NFL RedZone studio briefly evacuated during broadcast

NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson is famous for never leaving his desk — but an alarm in the NFL Network studio had other ideas.

NFL RedZone host Scott Hanson is famous for never leaving his desk during the seven-hour broadcast for any reason whatsoever — up to and including nature’s call. But on Sunday, as the afternoon games started to wind down, you may have heard an alarm on the broadcast.

Hanson soon let his viewers know that the control room and studio were being evacuated for an unknown reason.

Hanson soon returned to the broadcast, however.

NFL RedZone fans were quick to forgive Scott Hanson for his unfortunate mistake before Raiders’ winning TD

The people love Scott Hanson. Even if he made a big mistake Sunday.

The NFL RedZone channel is one of the greatest things to happen to sports fans in this history of sports and Scott Hanson is the perfect host who makes laying on your couch for seven hours (or more) every Sunday a very enjoyable experience.

People love Scott Hanson and rightfully so – the guy is a total gem.

Late in yesterday’s action Hanson showed everyone that he’s human and made a mistake. With the Raiders-Seahawks being the last game going on he told all viewers in the United States to switch over to CBS to see the overtime period because NFL Network isn’t allowed to keep RedZone on the air when only one game remains. It happens almost every week and every week you just switch over to Fox or CBS and get your last fill of football before, well, Sunday Night Football.

Here’s what just about everyone saw last night, however, when they switched over to CBS for the Raiders-Seahawks finish:

60 Minutes, because CBS didn’t have a national game in the afternoon window.

I know because I was one of those people who jumped over to CBS and ended up missing Josh Jacobs’ 86-yard, game-winning TD run.

Hanson immediately jumped on Twitter and shared this message with fans:

Gotta love that transparency from Hanson. Dude really cares about his viewers and it shows.

And his viewers care about him.

Scott Hanson amazingly poked fun at ESPN’s Aaron Judge coverage with NFL RedZone’s ‘double box’

THANK. YOU.

If you have watched any sporting event the past few days on ESPN, odds are you saw quite a few Aaron Judge walks — whether you wanted to or not.

NFL RedZone’s Scott Hanson wanted to be clear that none of that would be happening on his watch.

As Judge pursues the American League single-season home run record, ESPN has made a habit of split-screen look-ins for every at-bat. Now, the AL record is a big deal — they’ve been playing American League baseball for 121 years. But it’s not the MLB record. And you’re not going to find much fan crossover for a Kentucky-Ole Miss game. ESPN seemingly ignored that fans are tuning into football games to watch football.

Hanson — to his credit — knew that and poked fun at ESPN in the process.

He said during Sunday’s Week 4 coverage when the screen had a double box:

“Let’s go double box for the first time today. You’ll notice that no pitcher is pitching around Aaron Judge in this double box.”

NFL fans appreciated that RedZone was going to stick with its football coverage.

NFL RedZone’s Scott Hanson seems to have little confidence in Dwayne Haskins

Scott Hanson doesn’t think the Redskins will pass up on Chase Young, but he isn’t exactly sold on Dwayne Haskins as the starting QB.

While many extended families and social groups crowd into eight-person Zoom video chats during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s important to remember the man who is most familiar with the ‘octo-box’ — NFL Network’s Scott Hanson, the host of NFL RedZone.

While there are currently no sports to break down, and uncertainty about when those sports will return is prevalent, Hanson offered some time this past week to discuss the Washington Redskins and second-year quarterback Dwayne Haskins in particular. While Haskins thinks that the Redskins will end up drafting Chase Young with the No. 2 overall pick, he may not think taking a QB is the worst idea.

“I think there are more questions about him after his rookie season than maybe any of the other highly drafted rookie quarterbacks,” Hanson said of Haskins, via NBC Sports Washington. “I still think the ‘Skins will end up going [with] Chase Young at two. But I gotta think that there is — or at least was — temptation to say ‘We don’t necessarily know if we have our franchise quarterback.'”

When compared to the other high-profile rookie QBs in the 2019 draft class that saw significant playing time — Kyler Murray, Daniel Jones, Gardner Minshew, Drew Lock — it’s fair to say that Haskins was one of the less appealing options. However, it should also be noted the situation that he was thrown into, with a coaching staff who didn’t want him, and an offensive line that couldn’t protect him. Regardless, it’s hard to argue with Hanson’s declaration that Washington may not be 100% sold on Haskins just yet. His main piece of evidence for a lack of confidence in the Redskins QB is the lack of marquee plays that show a bright future.

“What you do expect is throws, moments, instincts displayed [and] drives that a rookie quarterback takes on where you’re like ‘That’s it. That’s it right there — why this guy was drafted in the first round, why they could give the keys to the franchise to this guy,'” Hanson said. “Those moments were fewer for Dwayne Haskins than they were for Kyler Murray or Daniel Jones or the other quarterbacks that were drafted to be franchise quarterbacks.”

Will those moments start to increase as the 2020 season gets underway? One can only hope.

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