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How do I watch if I wanted to? I have YouTube tv...

I’d watch it but it’s not on tv.

Please don’t drop them….I can’t stand listening to Buck

Games are on too late for me

Imagine that

They need to do this in a studio, and make guests come to them. The audio delays, the talking over each other, the staring up at screens like the guest is looking at stars, never flows as it should. One guest a game.

I'd watch it if I could-- but ESPN is not transparent or upfront about pricing/packages.

They are terrible interviewers. Peyton takes his job way to serious. And afraid to do anything to upset ESPN man crumbles and apologizes if any tiny thing is wrong. The chemistry is off because of video call lag. Not sure why it’s so hard for two brothers to sit in one room together for 1 day a week.

I never watch them but getting 2 HOF (not eli IMO but close enough) to talk about football should be for football nerds who want in depth, technical players from the horses mouth.

Their audience is not the TSwift fans who wanna learn more about Kelce and maybe a little football talk..

Sounds like they are ruining a good thing by trying to make it something it's not

I have never watched this and still have 0 interest in watching.

Everytime I've tried to watch on ESPN+ it's no longer there?

I love it when it's them or with a football guest

The celebrities have turned me off regular viewing though

Weird comment but I feel like I can't hear them well.

I hadn't seen any since week 1? It doesn't help that every week I tried to watch MNF was the week they took off. Doing it only every other week makes it inconsistent. Plus, the program name on ESPN2 isn't even Manningcast on comcast, so I never recognized it was on. Once I found an ESPN2 broadcast on an off week, I never checked ESPN2 again. Had Manningcast been in the title, I would have seen it right beside ESPN's MNF.

In third year learning about ManningCast for the first time via a reddit post ragging on it. Didn't know it existed before and with all these hot takes will definitely not be looking for it in the future. Good job marketing team.

I’m Irish so I don’t watch American sports too regularly, and when I do it’s only the big games in the NFL / NBA or the final few playoff games.

But here’s my 2 cents from an outsiders perspective. The sports I watch the most are the Gaelic Games (hurling & football), and rugby. These sports are 40 mins of non stop action, half time, 40 mins of non stop action, end. American sports are RIDDLED with advertisements at every available opportunity. Timeout? Ad break. Turnover? Ad break. Injury? Ad break. Penalty? Ad break, I could go on.

Now it seems as though the NFL aren’t happy with having ads between every single passage of play, they want to also incorporate ads in to the commentary as the play is happening, as per this example of Arnold plugging his book.

Couple this with two dudes who are utterly passionate about the game being played, and the guests just there to promote themselves, you can really see why this system is kinda set up to fail, which is unfortunate.

Oh no ESPN/disney is out of touch and makes everything ULTRA corporate? No way! Fuck em

It’s just another 90s talk show of a different flavor.

Tired formula. They’re playing too much.

I want to watch football, not listen to a shitty podcast.

You book guests to serve as ads and I'm gonna tune out. I mean fuck me everything that is even the slightest bit enjoyable shouldn't be seen as an opportunity to hawk products you don't give a shit about.

Maybe they should stop trying to turn it into the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

Honestly it’s the guests they are choosing. The delay in communication also doesn’t help… continually talking over each other and the guest.

Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are better

While the quality of some primetime games seems to be on the decline, I just don't appreciate how this show tries to do too much. I don't think it's what real football fans want from these two or non football fans. I just want a watch along with two SB winning QBs.

But the flow with guests, the commercials all the time (not their fault), just sucks.

I haven’t really watched manning cast recently but I’d say it doesn’t help their viewership when Aikman and Buck are actually a good crew

It's always been unwatchable lol

KICK WHAT?!?!

I love Arnold, but he was a horrible guest. There've been a few others too. When they have ex-players on I enjoy it a lot, but other random celebrities being on there absolutely sucks! Stop inviting bozos who didn't at least play college football and keep the chat about things outside of football and this game out of the broadcast.

ESPN shot themselves in the foot, to the surprise of no one. Yes the Manning Cast has too many celeb guests now and it makes watching a chore because they don't even talk football a lot of the time. Manningcast was way more engaging when they had other players on.

But arguably the bigger issue is that the MNF crew is now Aikman and Buck, who are actively a good pair compared to the horrible trio of Levy, Griese, and Riddick. I used to tune into the Manningcast mainly because they were the better alternative. Now Buck and Aikman are good and I have zero reason to watch the Manningcast.

ESPN is paying a shitload of money to cannabalize their own broadcasts.

ESPN killed it

It was a nice gimmick a few years ago, but it’s run it’s course.

I think this concept would make baseball better though

They need to keep it to guests that understand that it’s not a podcast about them. The game is the main focus and they’re there to compliment that not go on for 10 minutes about something and never pause when something happens in the game.

I can’t even watch it. Guest or no guest, I find it super awkward. (Though guests do seem to actually make it worse. Not because they’re boring, but because the bros don’t actually give them a chance to say anything.) Prime time games haven’t been super exciting anyways but they’re not really bringing anything to the table unless they’re actually talking about the game or their on field experiences. I like to compare it to wet cardboard.

Example. Guest gets the opportunity to finally something interesting, gets cut off, Ok thanks for coming on guest, We gotta go to commercial!

I would watch if espn+ actually aired games.

Haven’t watched them this year. Last year I switched to the normal broadcast after a couple Manningcasts. The first year was good, ‘cause they actually had football fans/players come on and talk about football. Even if it wasn’t about the game, at least you’d get to hear a story about fuckin idk Dr. Seuss winning the state championship in high school with a strip sack six.

idk if it was Payton or ESPN execs (definitely wasn’t Eli), but someone decided to start selling out and now we get either 1) A drugged up ARodgers, 2) A woman who is genuinely a fan but brings little to no substance to the conversation because she probably doesn’t really watch it, or 3) Some doofus selling a book/movie/comedy special/shit.

I’ll stick with Troe Buckman slowly transistion to the part of their career where they might get fired for saying something.

No one and I mean no one saw this coming. 😂

The first couple were great, it was better commentating. Then they added a talk show in front of a football game and i couldn’t turn it off fast enough.

Hadn’t watched the MC since the first few games they did but I flipped it on last week. It was just some rando droning on about nothing football related so went back to the regular broadcast after about 5 mins. Seems like that’s the common problem here.

I would watch the show, but it went from ESPN+ to ESPN2 which I can't stream. Lost a viewer. I find "other" means to watch ESPN. These "other" means don't have ESPN2. O well.

Twitter loves to take the piss out of Joe Buck and Troy Aikmam but once again the internet is the ultimate echo chamber as a pro announcer team is beating out two brothers watching football from their basements.

No one and I mean no one could predict this outcome.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I never saw the appeal

For me, I watched them when I did not like the MNF booth, I am probably in the minority but I like Joe and Troy.

Everyone but the manningcast realizes eli and Peyton are the show, not guests.

just get rid of the guests, Bill Simmons built a media empire off talking casually about football with his friends and he doesn’t even know what he’s talking about

Imo it's because they shit all over any team that loses badly. It's a quick way to lose your audience. They're too critical, people wanna see hype not downers. It's mostly Peyton, Eli is still great

I could use less guests, but I would watch ManningCast on every game if I could

I think the actual issue is Thursday and Monday night games this year are some of the most boring matchups ever. When I see the bears, saints, panthers, or cardinals I just automatically decide not to watch that garbage