The NFL on CBS didn’t have a great finish to their AFC Championship Game broadcast Sunday night and Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo is making sure they hear about it.
The game itself had a great finish, as Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs outlasted Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills 32-29 en route to their fifth Super Bowl appearance in six years. But with a bad replay angle and a false flag in the game’s biggest moment, CBS hindered the viewer experience. The botched ending earned CBS a spot on Russo’s What Are You Mad About segment Wednesday morning on ESPN’s First Take.
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“CBS did poorly. What an atrocious job at the end of the Buffalo-Kansas City game there on Sunday afternoon,” Russo bluntly stated. “Number one: They did not show the replay properly of the catch by (Dalton) Kincaid.”
Russo complained that CBS showed a side angle of the play, making it hard for the audience to understand just how egregious the drop was.
“It is so horrific about not showing you the proper replay!” Russo continued. “You can’t tell how bad it is, his body’s in front. That is ridiculous. Terrible! And then…and it’s not Nantz’s fault, they spent 20 minutes telling us there was a flag on the field! They had the yellow flag on the field…Jimmy, for 10 minutes told us, ‘Hold on now, let’s see if there’s a flag, we think there’s a flag.’ And we didn’t even know there was no flag!”
Russo’s third issue was the fact that CBS finally showed the right replay of Kincaid’s drop during the Chiefs final drive, where Tony Romo noted he should have caught it about five minutes too late.
“CBS! 57 million people watched this game,” Russo ranted. “CBS had the wrong replay of the original Kincaid drop, then they told you there was a flag, there was no flag! They spent three minutes on it. And then finally, after that, you saw the proper replay of Kincaid, which prompted Romo to say something. That is a horrendous – listen, I’m not TV expert – but when I see something that’s bad, I see something that’s bad. That my friends, was terrible by CBS at the end of Sunday night’s game in Arrowhead.”
Last year, Russo was irate after the Bills-Chiefs Divisional Round matchup on CBS, ripping Tony Romo for mistaking Franco Harris and Ken Stabler. And Russo was bothered by CBS again after the Super Bowl, when he torched the network for showing Taylor Swift “12 times” during the broadcast. Luckily for Dog, he won’t have to sit through another CBS game this season, with Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady slated to call Super Bowl LIX next week for Fox.
