I have a couple of press releases from NFL Network for you. One previews Thursday’s game between Carolina and Miami. Another contains quotage from “The Coaches Show”. Take a gander.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 — 8:00 PM ET
MIAMI DOLPHINS AT CAROLINA PANTHERS ON NFL NETWORK
Stacey Dales 1-on-1 with Carolina QB Jake Delhomme
‘The Marshall Plan’ Explains Why Panthers DE Julius Peppers Deserves What He is Paid
Exclusive: Dolphins Head Coach Tony Sparano & Panthers WR Steve Smith Are Wired For Sound
On NFL.com/Live:
Mike Mayock Breaks Down the X’s and O’s Of a Successful Dolphins Wildcat
NOTABLE & QUOTABLE…
- “A lot of teams try to emulate the wildcat, but they don’t have the commitment to it that Miami does. The Dolphins spend a good amount of time working on it in practice, developing different wrinkles each week and they have the personnel to make it work.” – DEION SANDERS on the Dolphins’ wildcat
- “These two teams are clawing their way back into the playoff picture. It’s power running versus power running.” – BOB PAPA on the Dolphins-Panthers matchup
- “He throws the ball so well from the run and he’s got enough arm to make all the throws down the field – short, intermediate and long. I like his physical skill set. Right now, what he has to do is continue to play, go through the ups and downs of a season and see if he can handle the bigness of the National Football League. There’s no doubt in my mind that he can…I think Chad Henne is here to stay. He’s a good young player with a very promising future.” – STEVE MARIUCCI on Dolphins QB Chad Henne
- “Receivers like being the feature guy…but he’s just going to have to get his catches when he can and make plays when he can. He’s just not going to have the numbers [of a Pro Bowler] so he’s going to have to deal with it.” – STEVE MARIUCCI on Panthers WR Steve Smith
DOLPHINS (4-5) vs. PANTHERS (4-5)
ANNOUNCERS
Bob Papa, Matt Millen
PREGAME (6:00 PM ET)
Thursday Night Kickoff
Rich Eisen, Deion Sanders, Steve Mariucci, Marshall Faulk, Jason La Canfora, Scott Hanson (Eisen, Sanders, Mariucci and Faulk in Los Angeles; La Canfora and Hanson via remote in Charlotte, NC)
PRE-KICK (8:00 PM ET)
Pre-Kick Show
Rich Eisen, Deion Sanders, Steve Mariucci, Marshall Faulk, Bob Papa, Matt Millen
HALFTIME
Halftime Show
Rich Eisen, Deion Sanders, Steve Mariucci, Marshall Faulk
POSTGAME
Postgame Show
Rich Eisen, Deion Sanders, Steve Mariucci, Marshall Faulk
WHERE TO WATCH
DirecTV – Channel 212 (SD/HD), DISH Network – 154 (SD/HD)
Verizon – Channel 88 (SD) 588 (HD), AT&T U-Verse – 630 (SD) 1630 (HD)
Check your local cable listings
NFL.com LIVE – live “look-ins” at select moments of game
NFL Mobile Live only from Sprint
LOCAL OTA SIMULCAST*CW Ch. 39 (WSFL)
Independent 64 (WAXN)
Thursday Night Football
NFL Network began its fourth year airing the exclusive Thursday Night Football primetime package with a ratings record. The Bears-49ers matchup was NFL Network’s most-watched season opener – seen in 2.75 million homes – and it was the top-rated cable show of the day.
NFL Network has assembled an award-winning team to cover its “Run to the Playoffs” slate. This season marks the debut of new game analyst MATT MILLEN who returns to the broadcast booth after a successful NFL analyst stint with FOX and CBS from 1995 to 2000. Millen is joined by second-year NFL Network play-by-play announcer BOB PAPA, the radio voice of the New York Giants who has called a pair of Super Bowls. Papa was also the lead voice for NFL Europa games including the 2007 World Bowl on NFL Network and has worked seven Olympics. MARK TEITELMAN and CRAIG JANOFF produce and direct Thursday Night Football.
RICH EISEN hosts NFL Network’s Thursday Night Kickoff, a two-hour pregame show from NFL Network’s Los Angeles studios. Eisen, a two-time Sports Emmy nominee in the Studio Host category, is joined by fellow Sports Emmy nominee STEVE MARIUCCI, a former NFL head coach with the San Francisco 49ers and Detroit Lions who also served as Brett Favre’s quarterback coach in Green Bay; MARSHALL FAULK, who won a Super Bowl XXXIV ring with the Rams, earned 2000 NFL MVP honors and three Offensive Player of the Year awards (1999-2001) and has been selected to seven Pro Bowls; and DEION SANDERS, a two-time Super Bowl winner who was 1994 Defensive Player of the Year and an eight-time Pro Bowler who holds the NFL record with 18 career return touchdowns. Coverage also includes on-site reports from insider JASON LA CANFORA, who is in his first season with NFL Network after an award-winning newspaper career with The Washington Post and reporter SCOTT HANSON, host of NFL Network’s NFL RedZone channel that airs every Sunday. Senior producer BARDIA SHAH-RAIS joins coordinating director JEN LOVE on the pregame, halftime and postgame shows. MIKE MURIANO is coordinating producer of the pregame, halftime and postgame shows. ERIC WEINBERGER is executive producer of NFL Network.
NFL.com LIVE features live programming including live “look-ins” of Thursday Night Football, game highlights and instant analysis from NFL Network talent. From the NFL Network studios in Los Angeles, FRAN CHARLES, JAMIE DUKES, BUCKY BROOKS and MICHAEL FABIANO provide expert analysis, commentary and fantasy information with contributions from Faulk, Mariucci and Sanders. Hanson, along with SOLOMON WILCOTS provide live reports from the stadium. New this year, Playbook analyst MIKE MAYOCK gives instant X & O analysis of key plays right after they happen from NFL Films headquarters.
Here’s the quotage.
Quotes from NFL Network’s ‘The Coaches Show’ Regarding the Patriots-Colts Game
“The Coaches Show” airs TONIGHT at 8:30 PM ET & 10 PM ET
NFL Network’s resident coaches Mike Martz, Steve Mariucci and Brian Billick weigh in with their thoughts regarding Sunday night’s Patriots-Colts matchup and head coach Bill Belichick’s decision to go for it on fourth down.
“It’s not like it was a knee-jerk decision. Bill Belichick is a lot of things, but rash and impetuous is not one of them. This was not a ‘Yee haw, let’s go do this’ decision. Everything is always calculated with Belichick. [The Patriots] have a history of this like no other and basically what it says is that he has more faith in his offense to get one yard than he does in his defense to keep Peyton Manning [contained].” – Billick on Belichick’s decision
“Sunday night, I thought he should have punted, but when you look back on it now on film, I can understand why he did what he did.” – Martz on Belichick’s decision to go for it on 4th and 2
“You can go from, if it works, a genius, to [if it doesn’t], you’re the village idiot.” – Billick on the varying criticisms that could result from Belichick’s decision, based on its effectiveness
“I probably would have punted it…If you go for it and make it, you’re going to win the football game. If you don’t make it, you give Peyton Manning just under two minutes to go thirty yards. If you punt it, you give Peyton Manning just under two minutes to go around 65 yards. The Patriots defense could not stop Manning [all night], so it was a real gutsy call to go for it and finish them off and it just didn’t work out.” – Mariucci on if what he would have done
For more thoughts from Martz, Mariucci and “special guest” Billick on last night’s game and additional content, including:
· Mariucci 1-on-1 with Titans head coach Jeff Fisher
· Martz on how the Bengals stifled Ben Roethlisberger in the red zone
Please tune into ‘The Coaches Show’ airing at 8:30 and 10:00 PM ET.
That’s all. I’ll probably be back later.
