NFL Week 17 of the season on Saturday is set for an afternoon clash between the Houston Texans and the Los Angeles Chargers. The league has confirmed the broadcast team for the game on NFL Network.
Rich Eisen is providing Play-by-play coverage. Kurt Warner is the analyst. The reporters from the sidelines will be Jamie Erdahl and Megan Olivi.
The Texans vs Chargers face off at 4:30 p.m. ET at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The match is being broadcast nationally on NFL Network and is available via NFL+ . Additionally, local CBS stations in both team markets, KCBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles and KHOU Channel 11 in Houston, will broadcast it.
Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner to call the game
The primary broadcast team for Texans vs. Chargers includes seasoned play-by-play announcer Rich Eisen, whose voice is familiar to the NFL audience from years of studio and live game coverage.
Eisen will be joined in the booth by a Pro Football Hall of Fame QB, who offers insights from a player’s point of view, especially about offensive systems, in-game modifications, and quarterback play.
Jamie Erdahl and Megan Olivi will speak to the audience from the sidelines. While Olivi contributes expertise and up-to-date information from the field, such as injury news and coaching observations, Erdahl is renowned for her in-depth reporting and interviews.
Fans are frustrated with the broadcast team
Even after a decorated set of people on play-by-play for the game, fans are not satisfied and have voiced dissatisfaction with the broadcast team of the NFL Network and are majorly labelling them as boring.
A user on X wrote, “Is it just me, or does the NFL have a commentary problem? Lately, all these broadcast teams are so boring. They are making these games almost unwatchable. No fire, no excitement. I don’t get it.”
Another X user commented between the chemistry of Eisen and Warner and wrote, “With no disrespect to Rich and Kurt but this NFL Network broadcast is fudging terrible. The chemistry between the two is very lack luster. Feels as if they are commentating on a stream of the game from their hotel rooms. Sound is dog poo too. I’d expect more from the NFL themselves.”