Sunday Night Football sounded a bit different than what fans were used to. Instead of the duo of Mike Tirico and Cris Collinsworth, the latter was replaced by Jason Garrett for Sunday’s matchup between the Baltimore Ravens and Los Angeles Chargers.
According to NBC’s broadcast, Collinsworth was enjoying the remainder of the Thanksgiving holiday with his family. A reasonable excuse to miss Sunday Night Football! So instead, football fans were treated to Garrett in Collinsworth’s stead.
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Unfortunately for NFL fans, while Garrett started off the night fine, it’s clear the synergy between him and Tirico wasn’t always there.
"Cris Collinsworth enjoying the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend with his family."- Mike Tirico
Jason Garrett is filling in for Collinsworth in the SNF booth. 🏈📺🎙️ pic.twitter.com/JqcE7C6C9g
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) November 27, 2023
Tirico is going for a dramatic outro and Jason Garrett just does this 💀 pic.twitter.com/xbv8STvqsr
— Grant Bilse (@WiscoGrant) November 27, 2023
While it’s hard to follow in the shoes of Collinsworth, NFL fans definitely weren’t happy with his replacement in the form of Garrett.
Jason Garrett is determined to break the Sunday night cliche record tonight. I talked to him before the game, he’s hitting on all cylinders, he’s making it hard on the defense right now.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) November 27, 2023
Jason Garrett is the pecan pie of NFL analysts.
— A.J. Perez (@byajperez) November 27, 2023
Turned the game off as soon as I heard Jason Garrett in the booth. Yikes.
— Shane Riordan (@shane_riordan) November 27, 2023
NBC really didn’t have anybody better than Jason Garrett to fill in for collinsworth?? Guy is atrocious
— Dante (@DanteTheDon) November 27, 2023
no cris collinsworth, but jason garrett? pic.twitter.com/xYO6g8v2xe
— sean (@seanyouidiot) November 27, 2023
Jason Garrett is the worst colour commentator of all time
— Jakob Sanderson (@JakobSanderson) November 27, 2023
Cris Collinsworth to Jason Garrett: pic.twitter.com/wLC9ojXOqT
— Joshua Brisco (@jbbrisco) November 27, 2023
booting up SNF and hearing Jason Garrett is on tonight's call is really making me reconsider my career choices
— alex katson (aquarium enjoyer) 🇯🇵 (@alexkatson) November 27, 2023
I hope Cris Collinsworth is ok. I would have liked more advanced notice that Jason Garrett was doing color. And Garrett is really the understudy??
— Neal Coolong (@NealCoolong) November 27, 2023
