Ben Axelrod
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280 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 31 Jul
Ben Axelrod’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um, we'll see how this plays out, but right now it looks like CBS is going to at least take this opportunity to pair JJ watt with Jim dance in the number one booth and see where it goes from there.
So what you're saying, so the idea was he came in, you know, guns a blazing that he was working really hard, that he had this quarterback knowledge that was obviously innate to him as somebody who played the position for a long time.
And then like the public narrative is that that performance slipped because he was spending too much time at the golf course and that CBS had to even have an intervention with him and maybe a poor choice of words there, but a work intervention with him in terms of like, Hey,
Like, we got to get you back up to speed here.
And maybe that did happen, but were you... In terms of, like, other stuff that he was doing in the broadcast booth.
But what you're saying is, like, that predicting of plays, that was because he was stepping out on... Apparently, they all... Well, you know, you'll remember...
That's fascinating.
It's interesting because as somebody who has covered football before and just knowing how secretive and how bland a lot of these coaches are intentionally in their press conferences, nobody wants to give away state secrets or anything like that.
And then they do, they're obviously more open and more willing to talk about things with the broadcasters because they know that's not going to come out until the game's actually being played out there.
There's no advantage the other team could take from that point.
But but to know that he was betraying that trust or that that was the belief that that's pretty fascinating.
Yeah.
You know, I think a lot of it could be traced to just the internet in general.
And the fact that you do have more voices who are capable of, of having platforms and having opinions.
And I do think there are some sports fans who just want to follow sports that way.
Some, some sports fans are just in it for, for betting and for fun and, and to, to drink on Sundays and Saturdays and all of that.
And then you do have some people, uh, who care about traditional journalism, who care about, um,
You know, for lack of a better phrase, like right and wrong and what, you know, holding public figures accountable and a lot of the stuff that Pablo has done.
I think you could point to that.
I think you could point to somebody like Bill Simmons, who has blurred the lines between fan and media member.
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