It’s gonna be a long, long, long, long Sunday night. And though the game begins at 5:30 Minnesota time, my broadcasting day will start around noon and run pretty late. I’ve got a couple of appearances on Saturday and Sunday morning. I’ll be in Minneapolis beginning Friday morning. This weekend my schedule… is gonna be pretty hectic. Here we go! Me and the boys! #RayDidinger Pre-game Live right now!! /5zGgojTNPq
Let’s give them good energy by expecting them to come out victorious. As a team if they don’t expect it, then their mindset isn’t in the right place.
I fully expect for this football team to be Super Bowl 52 champions, to take part in that parade marching down Broad Street on Tuesday. There isn’t any team in the NFC to take down the New England Patriots. I feel like this team is supremely built at all three phases. I expect… for the Eagles to not only win the Super Bowl, but I expect for them to win it handedly. At some point in time, that hope needs to transition to expectancy. People keep saying, “I hope, I hope, I hope.” The one thing I know is nothing comes to those who just hope. The best word to describe how I’ve been feeling all week is… expectant. If organizations looked at it in those terms, they wouldn’t get so butt hurt about things that were said because at the end of the day, it’s just my opinion. If they’re playing well, then it’s my job to give them praise. If I’m reviewing my beloved Eagles and they’re not playing well, the fans need to know why they’re not playing well. But my job now journalistically is to be fair. I feel that organizations sometimes get a little ticked off at players who transition to the media side. After that first year, I walked away from it in frustration and the NBC Sports Philadelphia opportunity fell into my lap probably like ten years later.Īs a former player and analyst I feel my job is to… analyze a game fairly and equitably and give my opinion based upon my experience. That takes some training and the only way you get good at it is to do it. The challenge was that… my football knowledge was there, but it was about condensing your words. People don’t know I was on the NFL network during its first year. Most people don’t know that… when I first tried it out, I failed miserably. I became a sportscaster after… I retired from playing.
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