Tag: Troy Aikman

Panthers great Greg Olsen nominated for another Sports Emmy

Greg Olsen is up for another Sports Emmy.

Greg Olsen is continuing his broadcasting excellence.

As announced on Tuesday afternoon, the Carolina Panthers great has been nominated for another Sports Emmy. This time, he’s up as an Outstanding Personality in the Event Analyst category.

The highly-acclaimed and well-received FOX color commentator has some strong competition for the honors. Joining the former tight end as his fellow nominees are ESPN’s Troy Aikman, NBC’s Cris Collinsworth, CBS’ Bill Raftery, FOX’s John Smoltz and FOX’s Tom Verducci.

If Olsen captures the gold here, it wouldn’t be his first victory on this stage. He won last year’s award for Outstanding Personality as an Emerging On-Air Talent—beating out the likes of Andraya Carter, Robert Griffin III, Eli Manning and JJ Redick.

But despite the recognition, Olsen is likely to take a backseat to Tom Brady—who is slated to join the NFL on FOX team as their lead color guy in 2024. Knowing that change is coming, the seven-time Super Bowl champion and three-time Most Valuable Player praised Olsen for his work back in January.

“I think Greg’s done an incredible job,” he said on The Pat McAfee Show. “I have so much respect for him, how he approaches his job. He’s super-prepared in what he does. I think he does an incredible job every time he’s on. I love listening to him.”

We do too, Tom. We do too.

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Troy Aikman’s old, feisty Patrick Mahomes tweet from 2019 has now aged very badly after the 2024 Super Bowl

This tweet continues to age badly.

It’s the post on X (formerly Twitter) that continues to age badly for Troy Aikman.

Back in 2019, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst posted a response to a tweet about how Patrick Mahomes has thrown so many touchdown passes in fewer games than Aikman. It’s worth noting that Mahomes plays in a very different era than Aikman did, but Aikman got feisty about it.

“Talk to me when when [sic] he has 33% of my Super Bowl Titles,” he remarked. And since then, the post has come up again and again.

It did on Sunday. Because Mahomes now has 100 percent of Aikman’s Super Bowl titles with three each:

Fans dunk on Troy Aikman over old tweet downplaying Patrick Mahomes

Fans were quick to bring up an old Troy Aikman tweet about Patrick Mahomes after the Chiefs’ victory in Super Bowl LVIII.

The Kansas City Chiefs earned their third Super Bowl victory of the Patrick Mahomes era on Sunday night by defeating the San Francisco 49ers in a thrilling 25-22 win that sent shockwaves across the NFL.

Few teams have been as dominant as the Chiefs, who are now back-to-back champions after a regular season that was as tumultuous as it was frustrating for Kansas City’s fans.

Nonetheless, the sweet taste of victory earned Chiefs Kingdom bragging rights for the second consecutive year, and fans on Twitter weren’t shy to let the naysayers know that Kansas City is the NFL’s newest dynasty.

Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman became an easy target after one of his old tweets from 2019 that downplayed Mahomes’ dominance resurfaced.

Aikman, who won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys, intimated that Mahomes’ wasn’t the real deal until he won a ring.

After defeating the 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII, Mahomes has officially equaled Aikman’s mark and still hasn’t turned 30.

Check out some of Twitter’s best clap-backs at Aikman from Sunday night:

Cowboys News: Aikman speaks, rivals making necessary changes, free agency targets

While the Division attempts to catch up to Dallas, a blueprint creator appears headed to a division rival. The first mock draft along with upcoming available free agent running backs. | From @ArmyChiefW3

The Cowboys’ division rivals are starting to take action, altering their coaching staffs and thereby philosophies and schemes. Hires within the division will challenge the Dallas coaching staff, will they force America’s Team to shift their strategy?

The first Mel Kiper mock draft of the season is finally upon us. His picks for the NFC East may be an indication that fireworks are in store for next season. Often forgotten, primarily because of Dallas’ normal plan of inaction, free agency comes first. Will any of the free-agent runners in this class be on the Cowboys roster?

A former Cowboys quarterback sends multiple messages to the Dallas front office, but will they listen? The impact, or lack thereof, of the 2023 rookie class is in stark contrast to the success of another NFC team which made the championship game. All that and more in this edition of Cowboys News and Notes.

Troy Aikman passionately lobbied for Jim Harbaugh’s NFL return during Ravens-Texans

Troy Aikman is a BIG fan of Jim Harbaugh coming back to the NFL.

After he finally won a National Championship with the Michigan Wolverines, it seems very likely that Jim Harbaugh will make his return to the NFL this fall.

You can apparently count Troy Aikman amongst Harbaugh’s biggest fans of his coaching.

With Harbaugh in attendance to watch his brother John’s Baltimore Ravens battle the Houston Texans in the AFC divisional round, Aikman was inspired to talk up Harbaugh’s coaching chops during ESPN’s broadcast. Before congratulating him for getting over the hump with Michigan, Aikman professed that Harbaugh has won everywhere and will make someone very happy if he comes back to an NFL sideline as a head coach in 2024:

The last we saw of Harbaugh in the NFL was when he coached the San Francisco 49ers to eight playoff wins, three consecutive NFC title game appearances, and a berth in Super Bowl 47 from 2011 to 2013. It’s difficult to say such success will immediately follow Harbaugh over a decade later, but at least he has an established track record.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman ripped the Eagles’ poor performance in NFC wild-card loss

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman weren’t not complimentary of the Eagles on Monday night.

The Philadelphia Eagles are officially out of the playoffs, and ESPN Monday Night Football announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman didn’t hide their criticisms of the Birds in the NFC wild-card round.

As the Eagles fell to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round of the NFL playoffs, Buck couldn’t help but notice during the first half how many missed tackles were stacking up for the Eagles’ defense, once one of the NFL’s best.

After watching Philly’s defense dominate in 2022, the unit didn’t look quite the same after the departure of former defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon. A lot of the same pieces were still in place, in fact.

Aikman went even further to say he thought Philly’s body language made the team look like it didn’t really care about the football game. Ouch.

Aikman continued his harsh critiques into the second half, which didn’t get better for Philly.

The Eagles fading down the stretch was one of the more bewildering developments of the NFL season, and Buck and Aikman’s commentary helped identify why it’s been on the downward slope for Philly.

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Troy Aikman ripped Lions’ Derrick Brown after he missed an easy sack on a Dak Prescott TD throw

Whew, Troy Aikman didn’t hold back.

Detroit Lions linebacker Derrick Barnes whiffed big time on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott on a huge touchdown play, and ESPN NFL commentator Troy Aikman sure noticed it.

Rather than get a sack and notch a potential safety for Detroit, Barnes got a free rush on Prescott but couldn’t get him to the ground. The lack of a tackle lets the quarterback hit Dallas wide receiver CeeDee Lamb for a 92-yard Cowboys touchdown.

While broadcasting Saturday night’s Lions and Cowboys game, Aikman called out Barnes for not completing the play and stopping Prescott make his huge completion to Lamb for the score.

Yowza. That’s pretty rough from Aikman for Barnes, who gets close to making a huge play of his own before Prescott evades the pressure and hits Lamb for the explosive play.

While the inner Cowboys fan in Aikman probably enjoyed the electric moment, the commentator side didn’t give Barnes a break here.

Feature image courtesy of ESPN.

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Troy Aikman goes off on officials during Packers-Giants

Troy Aikman has had it with NFL officials and lengthy reviews

Troy Aikman spoke for the masses when he criticized the officials late in the first half of the Green Bay Packers-New York Giants game on Monday.

A Green Bay kickoff had hit off a Giants player before going out of bounds.

The officials, however, somehow missed it and threw a penalty flag, meaning the Giants would get the ball at the 40.

However, after another lengthy review what Aikman and everyone saw was the ruling.

“This is ridiculous what we’re watching right now,” he said from the announce booth. “We see something it takes five seconds. It takes them five minutes.

“The problem with all this is just make the call. There’s 13 seconds in the half. … just make a decision.  This is what stops all these games. And the officials, I know, they have been talked about every week but this is ridiculous, what we’re watching right now.