@rickstrom: Kirk Herbstreit, former quarterback at Ohio state and current college football analyst at ESPN, also serves as the color commentator on Thursday night football alongside legendary broadcaster Al Michaels. The Amazon Prime Video team has taken its fair share of criticism in the past. With the Chicago Bears hosting the New England Patriots at Soldier Field, Herbstreit compared star quarterback Caleb Williams to a “bucking bronco” that needed to be “trained” and taught to play, creating hard coach Ben Johnson. It is a racially coded statement.
I was done with Kirk when he started being a Mcafee boot licker
2026-10-23 17:55:14
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isha :
Using the word “buck” in any context for an African American man is….wild.
2026-10-23 17:07:09
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Boxamilli Gaming :
Jesus christ people will make up anything to get upset...
2026-10-24 17:06:12
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Drudwn24 :
Come on man. This is a reach. People literally can’t talk these days. Williams played backyard football in college. He was erratic his first year. Made incredibly dumb plays. He was coached and learned. Stop it. Herbie is one of the best.
2026-10-23 18:43:37
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dennutzzz 🇵🇸 :
I don’t think there are racial undertones here tbh. You could say the same thing about Josh Allen his first four or five seasons.
2026-10-23 18:55:38
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hurdyhurttheiii :
Kirk said everything except call him "boy" maybe that's next
2026-10-23 18:40:01
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Alexthegreat__ :
I heard this and my ears perked up but I thought I misheard. Wild
2026-10-23 17:15:17
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bigboi80 :
when i heard it I was like
2026-10-23 17:11:58
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Trotter🎩 :
Not everything is a dog whistle this is universal commentary on Caleb Williams. He was an erratic player always seeking big plays and now he runs the offense
2026-10-23 18:14:37
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Manolo63 :
Those comments were hella racist. For the record I watched every game of Caleb’s two years at USC including every home game. The guy you are watching is exactly the same guy I watched for two years. He doesn’t play or look any different. His success is based on his talent.
2026-10-23 18:54:01
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JB82 :
So just curious, what analogy would be appropriate for this? Would “gunslinger” be coded? “Wild” seems to not be ok. “Undisciplined”? They called Johnny Manziel a Tasmanian Devil. Would that be ok for Caleb?
2026-10-24 00:18:13
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johnrummel576 :
Colin Kaepernick was just talking about this! Black quarterbacks are described as athletic or a beast and white quarterbacks are described as intelligent and decisive with the football.
2026-10-23 20:06:42
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SandraE :
Is he still on the air?????
2026-10-24 21:05:28
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Gabriel :
this is how white analysts describe black qbs in general. it's so weird
2026-10-23 18:17:45
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Markos :
Oof. How about the obvious: offensive systems are complex and the timing incredibly hard to get precise…not to speak of the professional defenses that allow less than a second window between a completion and interception. No one walks into the NFL and plays top 10 QB. Caleb was bottom 5 inaccurate last year and this year he’s a top 3 accurate QB. Yeah. Maybe the better term for last year was “dynamic” “super competitive” that led to him forcing throws. He’s had a year to gain a sense of the overall evolution of his own offense and play with more focus. Like every quarterback, ever.
2026-10-24 19:32:20
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Black panther :
White men embarrass themselves.
2026-10-23 18:57:06
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gracieblue5 :
Dog Whistle
2026-10-24 11:57:47
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Jennings71 :
So Kirk the Coach Ben tamed him wow 😮
2026-10-24 13:12:52
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Cj Ham :
Rick with yet another non-issue post!
2026-10-23 19:21:16
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Gavin McCullough :
Holy reach
2026-10-23 22:05:56
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King Double-U :
so we're just gonna ignore the fact that analogys exist, not everything is WW3 he's not calling him a literal animal, he's talking about game play, time to come back down reality and focus on how to make people's life better and by better I mean financially better and health wise better, not our feelings but or pockets and put physical bodies, if we fix these issues all the little things will matter less
2026-10-23 17:41:02
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🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 :
are we fucking serious bro
2026-10-23 18:18:10
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genxsupport :
I heard that, was immediately pissed off!
2026-10-23 17:56:29
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E.Z._Reader📚 :
Yup, I was looking at the screen like what?!?!
2026-10-23 18:06:29
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G Colorado :
This nonsense is absurd. 😂😂😂😂
2026-10-23 18:05:30
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