Serious Question: Did Rush bring anything to the table as a football

[soupkitchen]

commentator. Besides the right-wing flies that follow this lump of Ditto-Dung around?
I never heard the show, but I know the first weekend he was ridiculed for saying that Lawyer Malloy was not going to help the Bills beat the Patriots.
Did he ever offer any insightful comments?

[DrGonzoLives]

1. No

Not from what I had the stomach to watch, anyway. He basically just spouted some crap that would get a response. I don't think he had a clue as to what he was talking about.

[Evil_Dewers]

2. No

He claimed Mike Martz never coached the Rams to a Super Bowl. Wrong.

He claimed McNabb was never that good, however he played in two NFC Championship games and three Pro Bowls and has a much higher QB rating than Brett Favre, who many consider to be the greatest QB since the 1980s and one of the five best of all time (not me).

McNabb almost single-handedly beat the Rams in the NFC title game two years ago. Like Favre, he has lousy wide receivers.

Rush was full of shee-ite.

[rucky]

3. He packaged himself as offering the "fans' perspective"

which means "I don't know a whole lot about football so please be easy on me if I dont offer very insightful analysis."

He exceeded my expectations and offered us very insightful analysis... just not the kind I'm looking for when I watch a football game.

[jfxgillis]

4. To be honest ...

... He brought views that one might expect from a well-informed AMATEUR commentator.

That particular structure can work (in football, politics, American Bandstand, whatever) even if the amateur is outclassed by the pros because viewers literally LEARN the difference between shallow and profound insight, especially when the amateurs watching agree with the amateur pundit and then they turn out wrong.

He's glib and well-informed enough that they could have made it work if he hadn't tried to import his talk-radio schitck.

[Upfront]

5. Would Not Know

I refused to watch.