I wasn’t expecting to spend much time thinking about Jacksonville’s long-snapping situation when I turned on the game.But that’s where we ended up, and having a former offensive lineman in the booth made it worth listening to.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.
If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated.This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Jason Kelce added unique perspective to NFL Network's broadcast of the Eagles-Jaguars game on Sunday morning.
(Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Kelce joined Dave Pasch and Kurt Warner for NFL Network’s broadcast from London.The assignment is one of four games on Kelce’s NFL Network schedule this season.The combination worked really well.
Warner can explain the game from the quarterback’s perspective, while Kelce spent his career dealing with everything happening directly in front of the quarterback.CRACKERS START IN LONDON AS FIRST KICKOFF RETURN TOUCHDOWN OF NFL SEASON NULLIFIED AND TWO PLAYERS EJECTEDMost game broadcasts spend a lot of time talking about quarterback play, and rightfully so: it's the most important position on the field.That said, it was refreshing to get some perspective from a former offensive lineman and it added depth to the presentation.After Jaguars long snapper Ross Matiscik suffered a shoulder injury, Jacksonville turned to defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton.Long snapper isn't a position most fans spend much time thinking about (at least not until something goes horribly wrong), but it's a critical position.Kelce had actually done the job in high school and knew something about the difficulty of doing it as a very large human being.THE CRAIG CARTON SHOW–UNFILTERED, UNAPOLOGETIC AND UNMISSABLE.
DOWNLOAD HIS DAILY PODCAST NOW!"When I got fat, when I put on weight, I used to long-snap in high school," Kelce said."When I got to over 300 pounds-ish, it became really hard to look in between your le...