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I am a life-long Miami Dolphin fan (I know, pity me) and I did not sign up for peacock to watch it. I did watch a video afterwards by a guy who showed specifically why the broadcast was so poor.
NBC typically shows one game per week. But this weekend they showed three. They don’t have three ready crews (broadcast team, cameras, etc.). So, the crew for this broadcast was a thrown-together bunch of people with little or no experience broadcasting football. And it showed.

Two examples he cited: 1. A Chief ran out of bounds near the yard marker. From the angle shown, a viewer could not tell if he made the first down. Instead of settling that, the broadcast broke for commercial. The you-tuber said there was a full 3 minutes of real time before the viewer was informed.

2. The Chiefs scored an apparent TD. The TD banner went up, the score was changed on the screen ... except there was a flag. And no flag symbol shown on the screen. But the viewer didn’t know this until they finally showed the ref telling what the penalty was and backing the Chiefs out of the end zone.

There is another major issue. For years the NFL has only allowed fans in their local city to only see their local team on Sunday. They cannot see the other teams even if the game is better or more important. But the promise was, hey, during the playoffs, you will be able to see all these other teams and players you’ve heard about all season. Until now.