equal time Phil Mushnick NFL pregame shows have become unwatchable — and here’s how to fix it By Phil Mushnick Published Sep. 19, 2026, 2:56 p.m. ET Sunday Night Football hosts Chris Simms, Maria Taylor, Devin McCourty and Jason Garrett go over the game before the game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers on September 28, 2025. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images If it weren’t such a tired old and unfunny joke it would be comical.
Nothing points to the 21st Century’s inability of TV to come up with fresher, better ideas than the Sunday NFL pregame shows. They remain “skip it” TV.
The panelists may change, but the content remains and presentations are unremittingly dull, uninviting, redundant and so uninspiring that we know of no one who prefers one over the other.
Everyone gets a meaningless sentence or two, then off to a pandering, shallow interview — “When did you realize that you have such a talent?” — then back for more spread-it-around time-kill until kickoff.
