Official Texans @ Bills Game Thread, 10/3/2021

Keith · #1 09-29-2021, 11:22 PM

The Texans best hope is that this is a trap game for the Bills of sorts. At least from the perspective of the Bills looking ahead to a Week 5 Sunday Night showdown at the Chiefs. So I'd take the points here and hope the Bills lack interest in blowing this out through the air.

Bills 31 - Texans 16

The Texans are three weeks into the season and in second place in their division. I did not expect that to happen so I am going to enjoy it while it lasts ...three more days.

Arky · #2 10-01-2021, 02:36 AM

Beth Mowins and Tiki Barber on the call is interesting. CBS really digging into the reserves....

506Sports is showing zero Beth Mowins games in the first 3 weeks so this may be her first NFL game. Gotta be the first time a woman has called a Texan game. Tiki has worked this year with Andrew Catalon who it seems usually has James Lofton as a partner.

So, interesting assignments. Kinda like to know the story behind these decisions. BTW, Mowins is not bad - listened to many of her ESPN college broadcasts.... she usually does a good job.

Arky · #3 10-02-2021, 02:36 AM

Here's an article on Beth Mowins doing the game:

Broadcasting pioneer Beth Mowins to call Bills game, making some fans shout unfairly

Quote:

The initial reaction to my announcement on Twitter late last week that Beth Mowins will be the CBS play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Bills game Sunday against the Houston Texans alongside Tiki Barber made me think some Western New Yorkers haven’t come a long way, baby.

The announcement made some Bills fans want to shout some unfair things.

“Oh my (expletive deleted) god. Do the networks really hate us that much?” replied one follower.

“For a team that’s supposed to be a Super Bowl contender, we’re sure not getting any respect from the networks," wrote another.

“God. Help us,” wrote another.

“She’s awful,” wrote another.

But to my relief, followers soon came to Mowins’ defense.

“It might be unpopular, but I like Mowins,” wrote one follower.

“She’s good actually,” wrote another.

“I see a lot of woman sports announcers hate here,” wrote another. “She’s good in everything she covers.”

“She’s good, because she makes it about the GAME, not her,” wrote another.

Quote:

Mowins, who was born in Syracuse and earned a master’s degree from Syracuse University, is better known for doing college sports but has been doing NFL games since 2017. She isn’t a CBS regular, doing just “select games” for the network.

She has worked two Bills games in the last four years, including the Bills’ 42-17 win over the Miami Dolphins in the 2018 season finale.

I wasn’t surprised that she received a lot of unwarranted criticism on social networks back then.

My review was much kinder. I wrote: “If fans can get past her voice – and that’s apparently a tall order for many critical men and even some women – she did a fine job. She misidentified a few players … But that happens to every play-by-play person. Other than that, Mowins illustrated that she does her homework, asks the right questions, has a decent excitement level and generally does everything you’d expect a play-by-play person to do.”