I’m all for a panel, but I don’t want to see them all bantering as much merely behind a desk like it’s still the prior millennium.
As more studios covering a team sport are doing, more time has been allocated to discussions when standing in front of a huge screen with a replay of action and analysis of the performance of a team.
Take what LaPo is doing well and expand it, including at times to include some members of the panel.
We agree like most on keeping the panel, but I can’t be the only one who has a different or opposite opinion as do you on each panelist.
Jock Climie now really? GOOD RIDDANCE!
Yes it’s true though, any more I do watch the panel less too.
Climie was a full time lawyer when he was on the panel, I think he just gave up the panel to concentrate on law and family, plus they were pushing him out because at 50 they saw him as not new media savvy… And I would rather watch jumping dogs than this tired concept.
Believe he went back to the legal profession.
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Très drôle
The one last thing I’ll say on the panel, as my views differ, is I am ok with it, but I’d really want fewer of them. All that so-called banter; I can just never hear a word when they are all yuking it up.
Did something along these lines happen to come out over the weekend? There was so much going on for me and in sports in general that I can’t remember now.
Anyway, after I read this statement, and no need to mention whom you have in mind I understand, when I tried to figure out whom you had in mind, was this not the case with far more than one former ESPN employee over many years anyway?
No this might have been a year ago. Normally, I can can back up everything I post with corroborating evidence but this wasn’t an article but a TV (YouTube?) interview I saw and can’t remember who it was. I don’t watch (or like) ESPN and may not even know who it was but he said it forthrightly and from what I recall it was pretty close to what was said here. Panels are not put together by chance and each has a role to play and basically he said it was BS.
A couple of things they can do to be more effective with their time instead of the panel through the whole half is do the guest interview just before they interview a player coach before the 3rd quarter starts.
I’m sure they could also make a couple extra bucks by finding more advertising money. Surely, save-on foods, bmo and gambling ads can’t be the only companies looking to be seen in the country.
The panel is vg. I would like different guests on the panel for a different view
There have been so many good memories too even when the TSN panel went down less than impressive roads, so just for all that can go wrong as well, keep the panel for that reason too I say.
A small few of you perhaps can remember last season when in a game thread,
an astute CFL Forum commenter observed Beirness, Sanchez, Naylor, and Stegall in what became known as the Triple-Bald Formation, reminiscent perhaps of the old wishbone offence for some odd reason.
I don’t remember whether or not LaPolice was on the side on the bench waiting for the next play, but running the Quadruple Bald would have set a new viewing record.
In a missed sponsorship opportunity for TSN, minutes later that odd panel also became known as the Mop & Glo Formation.
This much I do agree on Kate after last week. Whenever there is a game delay, I want her on the panel to make the time pass when I check in to see where time stands before the restart. She made the show flow to fill the time so well and is the best at it.
She’s also good at moving the show along when Milt and somebody else are arguing because that’s Milt on EVERY single show.
There’s more upside I figure, and my opinion of her work is vastly better now than it was in 2019 when she filled in as emcee only on Thursday nights.
I agree on everything but especially this.
Arguing to me is entertainment. Milt’s facial expressions when he’s trying to articulate his thoughts is pure entertainment. It’s funny stuff and sometimes I almost pee my pants listening and watching him. He has personality any way one wants to cut the mustard. Plus the guy was a hecka of a player to boot. 
I always put the game on right at kick-off and do something else at halftime. So for me I could care less about the panel, I just don’t watch. Too many poor attempts at comedy and being hip and not enough football.
The dreaded hip and edgy, that never are.
It can and does get worse, as in the NFL studio crews on Fox and CBS, who try to hard to look like they are having fun. Then ABC / ESPN and NBC are scraping the bottom any more.
I like Terry Bradshaw and his self-deprecating humor, but overall I skip them. Heck, I usually start NFL games halfway through, anyway.
Well, I’m older (63) but I grew up with Chevy, McKee, Wittman, Russ Jackson and others and that was good enough for me. No clowning around. Miss those days. I get a kick of watching old NFL and CFL broadcasts on YT, totally different vibe.