If the NFL and NBC wanted people to watch the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins’ playoff matchup through a Peacock subscription, the least they could’ve done is give us a better color commentator than Jason Garrett. When I say “better,” I mean that it would’ve been preferable to listen to three hours of random Wilhelm Screams than hear Garrett’s milquetoast, nonsensical analysis of an NFL postseason affair.
Don’t believe me?
What if I told you that Garrett called Patrick Mahomes a “sneaky good athlete” like he’d never watched him play before? What if I said he seemed to make a reference to Vitamin C’s infamous melody about over-appreciating one’s high school years? And these are just two examples!
At seemingly every turn, rather than add, you know, color to a broadcast, Garrett opted for the low-hanging fruit. He offered the most anodyne possible descriptions of sequences during the game and flip-flopped constantly on his opinions. He called Chiefs-Dolphins like a robot beholden to the binary code, not a human being who knows how to talk to other human beings.
Needless to say, NFL fans had enough of Garrett during an agonizingly awful broadcast.