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Merril Hoge Sucks more than the other ESPN analysts

Sep 09

chrisSports espn, football, Merril Hoge, Vince Young 4 Comments

Is it just me, or have the announcers and analysts for ESPN been going downhill lately.  I mean Lou Holtz gets a pass because he’s was a badass coach and influence for college football.  Emmitt Smith gets a pass because he’s one of the greatest running backs in the history of the NFL.  Merril Hoge was a good solid player in the NFL, but as an analyst… I despise him.  He and Skip Bayless are the two most negative naive jerk announcers I have ever had to listen to in my life.  At least Skip Bayless admits he’s a complete douche.  Merril just sits there sound bite after sound bite bashing players and teams nonstop.  

I don’t have scientific or statistical proof, but I’m pretty sure that the majority of his picks at any given time are usually wrong unless the pick is blatantly obvious.  In fact, I just looked up his picks and so far he’s 9-7.  Only Mike Golic had a worse week than Hoge.. and it would have been the same if Golic was allowed to pick the MNF game between Denver and Oakland.  (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/features/talent)

For the 2007-2008 Season, Hoge had these picks -

Merril Hoge
AFC Champion San Diego
NFC Champion New Orleans
Super Bowl Champion San Diego
MVP Tom Brady

The only thing he was right about was Tom Brady.  Are you surprised he picked Tom Brady?  A freaking hermit crab would have picked Tom Brady.  Every girl on the planet would have picked Tom Brady just because he’s dating Giselle.  Any football fan would pick Tom Brady because IT WAS THE OBVIOUS CHOICE.

But.. alas he was absolutely wrong about the Saints and the Chargers. 

he also hates Vince Young…. and my boy VY needs some fans right now after the bad week he had