Medium Well: Saturday night's all right? - Sports media blog by The Baltimore Sun's Ray Frager

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Saturday night's all right?

Say this for the NFL Network production of Patriots-Giants: lots of very nice pictures. But that doesn't mean they couldn't have been more instructive. The biggest omission occurred on the Patriots' go-ahead touchdown. Cris Collinsworth talked about how the Giants defensive back jumped the route, leaving Randy Moss free to reach the end zone. However, none of the replays showed the defensive back covering Moss.

On the other hand, after Collinsworth talked about how the Giants secondary's concern over Moss made a New York safety forget run support and drift outside, we saw on replay how the safety shifted and left a path for New England's Laurence Maroney to a touchdown.

And all of those complaints about Bryant Gumbel? To these ears, the main problem is he is trying to say too much. On TV, less often is more.

Posted by Ray Frager at 8:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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I'm glad I don't pay for NFL Network, and I won't ever, if that's what I have to look forward to.

Posted by: boycott Newport RI | January 1, 2008 2:10 AM

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About Ray Frager

Ray Frager joined The Baltimore Sun’s sports department in 1985 and has been an assistant sports editor for more than 15 years. This is his second stint writing a sports media column for The Baltimore Sun. Most sequels aren't as good as the original, but then, the original wasn't all that great either.

Frager, born in 1957, grew up in northern Delaware (graduating from a high school that since has shut down) and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Rider College in Lawrenceville, N.J. He worked as a reporter and copy editor at The Trenton Times and The Dallas Morning News before coming to Baltimore.

Surprisingly, if you look at his accompanying photo, Frager is married and has a son and daughter. He enjoys playing basketball and has organized pickup games among members of The Baltimore Sun staff for many years, which means they don't get too mad at him for shooting way too much.

He has a good beat and is easy to dance to. I'd give him an 85.