Yesterday we learned that ESPN will have a Monday Night Football B-team consisting of Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic, Mike Ditka and Bonnie Bernstein on the first Monday of the NFL season. That announcement has prompted a lot of discussion, both pro and con. But the most interesting response I've seen came from a comment at Football Outsiders asking this:
Honest question: Can we get ESPN to put Ditka on the sideline and Bernstein in the booth? Wouldn't that ultimately be cooler and more informative?I don't know how Bernstein would do in the booth, but I couldn't agree more about Ditka on the sideline. In fact, now that I think about it, if we're going to have sideline reporters at all (and I'm not sure that we should), why aren't they always ex-coaches?
Who can provide better insight from the sideline level than someone who patrolled the sidelines as an NFL head coach? Who will know what to ask the coaches at halftime better than someone who was once in their shoes? Who would have a better chance of actually getting a coach to say something insightful than a former colleague in the coaching fraternity? This makes too much sense not to happen.
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