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The NFL’s Worst of Week 6: Bad officiating, punter headbutts, angry Brian Daboll!

Massive officiating errors! Angry coaches! Punters starting fights, and announcers jinxing quarterbacks. It’s the NFL’s Worst of the Week for Week 6!

Football is a wonderful, thrilling, inspiring game that can lift us to new heights in our lives.

But football is also a weird, inexplicable, at times downright stupid game that may force you to perform Keith Moon-level furniture destruction in your own living room.

So, as much as we at Touchdown Wire endeavor to write about what makes the game great, there are also times when it’s important to point out the dumb plays, boneheaded decisions, and officiating errors that make football all too human.

Folks, it’s time for the Worst of the Week for Week 6 of the 2023 NFL season.

Jim Nantz extends Sunday’s announcer/interception curse

Announcers Jim Nantz and Spero Dedes created interceptions on Sunday with the sheer power of their words. If you don’t believe us, just watch.

At least two times on Sunday, announcers were directly responsible for interceptions.

You may think that’s facetious, but we don’t. We have seen more than enough no-hitters broken up as a result of blabbermouth people in the booth talking about it just to be defiant, and football announcers should know better than to ever say that Team X hasn’t thrown an interception, or Team X doesn’t yet have an interception. Because we ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, DON’T WE?

First, veteran announcer Spero Dedes apparently forgot himself in this regard. Albert was calling Sunday’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars, and with 4:50 left in the first half, Dedes happened to mention that Minshew hadn’t thrown a pick all season long.

See if you can guess what happened next.

I mean… we’re talking MAYBE five seconds between the installation of the Announcer Curse, and the Inevitable Result. Ouch.

Then, Jim Nantz and Tony Romo were calling the game between the New England Patriots and the Las Vegas Raiders, and Nantz happened to mention that the Patriots don’t have an interception yet among the players in uniform on the field. Rookie cornerback Christian Gonzalez, out for the rest of the season with a shoulder injury, was the only Patriots defender with an interception this season.

Of course, that changed right after Nantz said it. Defensive back Jabrill Peppers put a serious hit on receiver Davante Adams, and the ball flew up into the hands of linebacker Jahlani Tavai.

When will these guys learn? Actions have consequences, people.

Colts vs. Jaguars broadcast map: Where will the game be on TV?

What areas will have the Jaguars vs. Colts on their local TV station?

The Jacksonville Jaguars are 3-2 after a successful trip to London where they picked up a pair of wins. While one of those victories was at “home” when the Jaguars beat the Atlanta Falcons at Wembley Stadium, the team still hasn’t won a game at EverBank Stadium.

They’ll try to change that when the Indianapolis Colts come to Jacksonville on Sunday.

In Week 1, the Jaguars traveled to Indianapolis and handed the Colts a 31-21 season opening defeat. Since then, the Colts have won three out of four to enter Week 6 in a tie with Jacksonville for first place in the AFC South.

The home game for the Jaguars on Sunday is set to kick off at 1 p.m. ET with coverage on CBS. In-market fans will have the game on their local CBS affiliate and can stream the game on fuboTV.

Spero Dedes will be on play-by-play coverage in the booth with Adam Archuleta providing analysis.

Fans in the orange area on the map below will have the Colts vs. Jaguars game on their local CBS station, according to 506sports.com:

The majority of this country (highlighted in blue) will have the Seattle Seahawks vs. Cincinnati Bengals on their local CBS channel during the 1 p.m. slot.

Those who aren’t in an area highlighted orange will need NFL Sunday Ticket, now offered by YouTube, to watch the Jaguars as an out-of-market game.

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Van Gundy – during the first round of …

Van Gundy – during the first round of postseason – instead will work with Spero Dedes, the steady CBS NFL/college basketball announcer who has done NBA games for Turner in past years. Chris Webber, left off TNT’s schedule for seeding games, has been summoned to the bubble to work first-round games with TNT staffer and Milwaukee Brewers TV voice Brian Anderson.