That's Brooke Ward, sir.TheLionKing wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:58 pmThat PA announcer sure loves hearing his own voice. 2nd and looooooooooooooong
Just curious, what bothers you about that? It helps fire up the crowd.
DH
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That's Brooke Ward, sir.TheLionKing wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:58 pmThat PA announcer sure loves hearing his own voice. 2nd and looooooooooooooong
That's funny--I had heard that he got the gig, but last night I didn't even recognize his voice --processed through the sound system loses some of the distinct qualities. He should have worked in "doin' the damage" into his patter.David wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:59 pmThat's Brooke Ward, sir.TheLionKing wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:58 pmThat PA announcer sure loves hearing his own voice. 2nd and looooooooooooooong
Just curious, what bothers you about that? It helps fire up the crowd.
DH
Always the coaching conundrum and for that matter GM conundrum. Developing the next guy to help you 3 years from now won't help your job security if you don't win now.
I was kinda the opposite. I totally recognized the voice but until David just posted that I couldn't place the name to it. I kept thinking Jeff Paterson but knew it wasn't him.BC 1988 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:53 pmThat's funny--I had heard that he got the gig, but last night I didn't even recognize his voice --processed through the sound system loses some of the distinct qualities. He should have worked in "doin' the damage" into his patter.David wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:59 pmThat's Brooke Ward, sir.TheLionKing wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:58 pmThat PA announcer sure loves hearing his own voice. 2nd and looooooooooooooong
Just curious, what bothers you about that? It helps fire up the crowd.
DH
Thanks for the link, Ernie. I agree with Abbott about the effectiveness of the makeshift receiving corps:Gridiron Ernie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:43 pmHave enjoyed all you guys' comments on the Leos' entertaining game last night. JC Abbot has chimed in nicely with his take on things as well, over at 3DownN. https://3downnation.com/2021/09/12/luck ... of-ottawa/ I agree with the general consensus, that young Mr. Rourke should be given game-time experience in situations such as last night. Reilly's rationalizing (citing Montreal/Vernon Adams) was weak. Not convincing at all. And neither, as many have mentioned, is the Lions' ground game convincing so far this season. We all know how important that can be on the long run, down the stretch. But hats off to the coaches and players for an entertaining night! I almost feel guilty registering complaints. But, yeah, more Cottoy downfield would seem a no-brainer ongoing.
I've been hoping since the start of training camp that the coaching staff would realize the Lions are better with Cottoy on the field. No one else has his combination of size and skill. He has been used mainly as a blocker and checkdown receiver in the past two games, much as the Lions used Cory Watson as a bruising inside slot in 2018. Cottoy is taller and heavier than Watson and has excellent hands.Uniformity can render a passing offence predictable and dull, but Lions have game breakers like Whitehead alongside bruisers like Cottoy. The result is a varied attack that is awfully hard to cover and, frankly, this group may have worked better together than with Durant and Rhymes in the mix. That’s not to say the team shouldn’t want either of those players back as soon as possible, but they won’t be missed nearly as much as they might have been in years past.
It helped that the two guys that Lokombo took out were Richie Leone and Lewis Ward.Reg18 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 13, 2021 1:06 pmOn the whitehead return TD he got two greatblocks one around the 20 yard line whe our lion could have destroyed a red blackbut instead just made a good b!ock. The ref might have called a croughing penalty had he decijded to destroy the fed black and up around midfield I think it wasn Lokombo who took out two fedblacks with a great block. Tgey were in a good position to stkp the play andbe nailed one of thgem into thesedcind guy. Avbgreat b!lock