Rawls had a great game in relief of Lynch, but obviously the Lions would much rather be facing him over Lynch. The Seahawks have already ruled Marshawn Lynch out due to a hamstring injury suffered last week against the Chicago bears. The Lions are struggling, but they have caught a break heading into this game. Jon Gruden and Mike Tirico have the call. Levy, Griese, and Riddick are glad for it as they attempt to build on what they've already accomplished in their sophomore season of Monday Night Football.Week 4 of the 2015 NFL season wraps up on Monday evening as the Seattle Seahawks host the Detroit Lions on Monday Night Football. Though the pandemic is not quite in the rearview for the world, things will be a little closer to what we remember as normal in the 2021 season. But the crew got it done under the most difficult circumstances one can imagine for a football broadcasting team. "There is a lot of air traffic control, if you will, that has to happen pretty much on every single play that you hear us come in to talk. When I'm hot on something, I have to be able to communicate to him. Louis will tell me he's really high on something or I'll listen to his pregame, what he's interested in talking about, so I'll defer to that. "Then Louis and I have to kind of react off of that, and Louis and I sometimes have hand signals or non-verbals. So Phil is getting two voices into his head, into his ear at the same time having to listen to two and make a split-second decision as to which direction to go," Griese explained. "After a play happens, Steve is done calling the play, and I might hit my button to talk to the truck to tell Phil the angle or what I wanted to talk about in a replay, and Louis might be doing the same thing at the same time. Griese provided more background on the art of meshing with Riddick. But it is not a simple task to ensure they don't overlap when speaking. As two color commentators, each brings a unique perspective to the table for the viewers. Riddick and Griese's ability to gel is what will ultimately define this MNF broadcast. But it speaks to a lack of ego, also, on the part of both Louis and Brian, and Phil Dean coordinating the whole thing." I know exactly when I'm speaking, but I am amazed, and I'm in the booth with these guys, I am amazed how Phil Dean, our producer, communicates with Louis and with Brian and virtually never stepped on each other. "In our booth it's obviously very different. "In your standard two-person NFL booth, the roles and the timing are really defined, right play-by-play guy goes to the whistle and then the analyst jumps in until they break the huddle, set the formation, those kind of things," Levy said. Levy explained how the ESPN team navigated everything to The Big Lead in a conference call on Wednesday. And there is no margin for error on this stage.ĭespite all that, despite those obstacles, Levy, Griese, and Riddick were good enough to get the callback for Year 2. It is a delicate process, a difficult dance to have three unique and individual personalities shine on a football broadcast. The line between harmony and cacophony is razor-thin with a trio. A duo in the booth is what both audience and analysts are accustomed to. It's why all the legendary names in football broadcasting come in pairs. Traditionally, football broadcasts feature a PBP commentator and a color commentator. What made their partnership unique for a major broadcast, and what made it even more impressive that they were able to find success in 2020, was the three-man booth. It's already hard enough to come together as a group and quickly build the chemistry required to put on a quality show, and even more difficult when no in-person meetings or run-throughs were permitted.īut everybody went through different versions of that struggle last year. The three are familiar with one another and had appeared on broadcasts together in various iterations in the past, but the lights of Monday Night Football are among the brightest in the business. As one can imagine, it was obviously a challenge to work together for the first time with the coronavirus pandemic looming in the backdrop. The trio was tapped to lead ESPN's marquee broadcast in 2020 after the network struggled to put together an attractive announcing crew for viewers over the previous two years. It will also mark the beginning of the second year of the Steve Levy/Brian Griese/Louis Riddick partnership in the booth. Four days later, the first Monday Night Football broadcast of the season will air as the Las Vegas Raiders will play their first game in Sin City with fans in the stands, hosting the Baltimore Ravens. The 2021 NFL season will kick off tonight with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers taking on the Dallas Cowboys.
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