ESPN hears your complaints.
Jason Kelce, who serves as an analyst for “Monday Night Countdown” and a color commentator for the NFL Network broadcasts, can’t stop saying “we” when he’s on the air, discussing the Philadelphia Eagles. It happened during the Monday Night Football game between the Bears and the Eagles last month. It happened again on Sunday morning, during the Eagles vs. Jaguars game in London.
Even Pat McAfee has had to call him out for it.
“I’m looking at it’s 10-7. I feel pretty good going in half. We played really well offensively. We had opportunities. We shot ourselves in the foot, but we’ve moved the ball. We’ve ran the ball well,” Kelce said at halftime of the Bears vs. Eagles game. “Jalen Hurts is throwing the ball well. I think, you know, them getting the ball coming out of half, I got a feeling they got a lot of momentum going in there.”
McAfee pointed out the mistake: “A lot of “we” talk out of Jason for Philly.”
Kelce was quick to apologize on the air to fans.
“Sorry. Sorry,” Kelce said.
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But while Kelce has been apologizing, he hasn’t been able to stop. It happened again on Sunday morning in London.
ESPN knows there’s an issue, though, and the network is trying to coach him out of it right now.
Jeff Dufine, a longtime ESPN producer who is running the network’s international braodcasts with the NFL Network, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the producers have been working on Kelce’s “we” problem.
“We’ve tried to get the ‘we’ out of him,” Dufine said.
Apparently, the coaching needs to continue, as Kelce continued to say it on Sunday.
Kelce is promising to not show too much bias, though
During the latest episode of his New Heights podcast, Kelce had a message for Jaguars fans who were worried about his bias.
“I want to assure Jags fans I’ve seen a lot of the Jags accounts already saying that they’re not looking forward to this,” Kelce said. “I will be doing my utmost to give you guys the credit you deserve. Jacksonville’s playing as good as any team right now in the AFC. I really do believe that.”
Ultimately, it’s the No. 1 rule in broadcasting – don’t show bias and don’t root for one team over the other.
But the “we” issue continues for Kelce and ESPN.
