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One guest a week. Ideally football related but at least a fan of the game. I think Bill Burr was on and he was great, I think the Snoop one was good too. It has to be someone who's at least sort of there for the football.

We watch the show for the manning brothers breaking stuff down, quit with the celebrity guests, I’d be okay with other high level pros that can add to the discussion but they are doing their best to turn it into every other espn sports show and it’s just boring.

well it was on TSN in canadaast season we could choose regular broadcast or manningcast. Now, manningcast is nowhere to be found on TSN so I guess they are kind of doing it to themselves 🤷

It worked great that first year because it was something fresh and new and the team they had doing the main broadcast on ESPN sucked. But when they got Buck and Aikman last year, who were FAR better, there really wasn't as much reason to switch to the Manningcast.

And I have to agree that some of their guests have really dragged it down. It's fine when they've got somebody who's knowledgeable about football and can add to the conversation about the game, but when they just have some random celebrity who's just there to plug their latest project, it's just awful.

the guests are unwatchable

We tuned into the Manningham when Joe schmo and uncle laser were the announcers. Joe and Troy are great though and much more enjoyable to actually take in a game.

I wish NBC had the rights to the Manningcast so I didn't have to listen to two known perverts (Google it) in Tirico and Collinsworth.

Yeah, no shit. These two dudes talking at the same time is insufferable.

Get in the same room and ditch the non-football related guests if you watch. I have enough zoom meetings in my life already.

Yeah I’ve forgotten about it and stopped watching myself and I was all in year 1 and part of last season

Bill Burr would be a good permanent addition. Dude loves sports and can make anything funny. Add him, ditch the guests, and just show 3 dudes reacting to a football game.

Bunch of curmudgeons in here. The ManningCast is absolutely hilarious and the non-football guests and awkward format just add to the absurdity of it all. I just think it's dumb that it doesn't get simulcast on ESPN+. I'll be very disappointed if it ever goes away.

Peyton and Eli have the most boring personalities ever

The back and forth inside joke banter is jarring after a while. Just talk game give more insight. Chill on the guests as well.

Maybe he because 90% of the guest suck and it was fun when they just talk manning football

This is so much better than any broadcast. It’s odd how tv ratings are calculated . Dish network completely lost and doesn’t show fox network and they have some fix games with higher ratings than when dish had fox. No way you remove one of the largest tv providers and a channel but report higher ratings for sporting events in fox. That doesn’t math

What they should do is make it an audio only secondary audio choice for the main channel. English language, Spanish language, and Mannning bro talk.

There is no need to devote a second channel for it, we don’t need to see the Mannings, and we definitely don’t need a talk show format for guests to plug things.

The ManningCast isn’t even about football anymore, atleast when the guests are on

It’s literally not even worth watching if you care at all about the game

I watch, but that's because I can't stand Joe Buck or Troy Aikman.

Loved it the first year because the main broadcast stunk. Buck and Aikman are great so I haven’t watched since

If it was just the 2 of them then I'd be more inclined to watch. All the guests are what ruin it for me.

Honestly The ManningCast is my favorite sports show right after the TNT NBA pre game crew. Though I like the Mannings just because they're complete dorks about football, but I find their insight to be refreshing compared to most commentators during games. But that's just me, I could do without the guests for the most part but even those can be entertaining sometimes or at least spruce up the horrible games that are often on prime time NFL.

I tuned in for a bit, they missed a play to show Eli playing middle school basketball or something. Switched back.

Dear Manningcast intern or producer who is tasked with monitoring this thread.

You have taken an amazing concept and overproduced the hell out of it. You literally have two incredible football minds watching a game together and somehow managed to make it not compelling and not about football.

Some ideas work really well. The giant head prediction board is great because it is about the game. Demonstrations of "behind the scenes" information is perfect. Other football players(or people who really know football) that talk ball and share experiences are great. They can even cut off a story to comment on a play in real time.

Having late show type guests that get asked cringe worthy questions are not interesting in this format. I know some producer is tasked with "increasing our meme worthy content to attract audience numbers from a certain demo to expand the reach of the brand" or some similar corporate bullshit buzzwords. Make a another athlete podcast if you need to, but the game is such a huge part of this format.

Peyton and ELI usually have good instincts about this so hopefully they can override some producer and get this product back to a watchable state.

Whenever I see Peyton or Eli on my TV screen I change the channel.

Is it cause people are getting tired of whatever bullshit the celebrity is pushing instead of football being talked about? I know I am. I'm also pretty sure that Peyton Manning is eager for them to shut up so he can talk about blitz pickup.

Imo, it should be only a guest in the third quarter, and depending on the guest (for example Russell Wilson I believe was amazing or Tom Brady) let them stay the rest of the game

The audio is terrible. Not just for the guests but the Manning bros too.

I want to hear them talk about football. They have all these guests on not talking about football....

Thats because they are competing with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman...who are actually pretty good at casting.

Have 2 guests, either a celebrity fan of one of the teams or a known former player. One each half. First few minutes of the second and middle/later of the 3rd. Cut the promotion crap. Leave the rest of the time for the two to banter with each other while watching the game.

ManningCast should have two guest, MAX. One for each half of football.

They should really have other camera angles as well. It doesn’t have to be commentary over the main broadcast. I’d love to see a drive of the all-22 with the Mannings and a defensive player putting arrows and circles over each down diagnosing in real time.

ManningCast sucks

There is no fucking way I am going to watch a game where 30% of the screen are the manning brothers

Well the main cast is on broadcast TV now in addition to ESPN. Less and less people even have ESPN2 or cable for that matter. And they aren’t even on every week. This first year was gold but now they are mostly a talk show. Waaaaay better than the LeBron BS though.

I love it, still superior than generic bullshit.

The whole point of the show was to hang out with two QB's and get their insightful, sarcastic, self-deprecating and funny comments on the game. Now it's basically an ad running during the game.

Who ever is running the program took a good idea and turned it into crap because all they can think about is how to maximize profits for themselves.

Hey, MBA's, here's an idea: if something is good and makes a little bit of money, be happy with what you got and leave it the fuck alone.

The answer is easy. Get rid of the guests. The guests wreck it for me unless they are actually like other players or coaches and they are actually talking about the game. People want to hear the brothers talk about the game, not shill books and cosmetics for celebrities.

Guests should only be big football fans, or players/industry members.

Marshawn showing up wasted, Joe Buck just fucking around, and John Stewart complaining about the Giants, these are Hallmark moments of the show.

Whomever that fuckin "comedian" who was on last week, who just babbled about nothing, disconnected, then came back only to do the same shit, was annoying. Idk who she is, she clearly doesn't care about football, and there's no point. This isn't a talk show, it's a MNF game

It’s such an easy problem to fix too if they give even one iota of shit

The bit where eli yelling into Peyton's ear like an OC "PLAY PLAY PLAY WATCG 7 SWITCH THUS HURRY SNAP DELAY OF GAME"

... is such good insight into the details that make a good offense run that most of us would never know about

I stopped watching it when they brought in Aikman and Buck. It was much more appealing when it was booger and who ever else was in the booth. Once they brought in the professionals I never turned on the manningcast again.

Guests distract and are a little annoying to try and get through at times. It’s not a talk show so stop treating it like one.

They’re boring and I don’t want to see their dopey faces in my living room for 3.5 hours.

Also, I don’t like that the volume on the broadcast is turned down. This production should belong on YouTube where it can have a dedicated audience and they won’t have to worry about wasting a slot

No surprise, because every quarter there's a guest on promoting whatever they have going on in their life. I don't even think Peyton cares for the guests either as he's more concerned on the game.

This show is intended for football fans. Football fans want to see the manning bros talk about the game, not random celebs talking random things. There’s already so many podcasts for that.

I’d watch it if I had the channel

they need to ditch espn and go on Twitch during thursday night, and no celebrity guests outside of football

Having guests with little to no interest in football just promoting their stuff is not helping. It feels like a late night talk show.

It's either just the brothers or them and a current or retired football player. No more boring celebrity's