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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.

I am willingly switching to Joe Buck and Troy Aikman during games because I'd like commentary on the sport I am watching and not rambling bs about nothing. Its fun if the game is a boring trash heap to have this stuff but not all the damn time.

They honestly suck. I thought it was really great at first, but there's too much dead air, the cameos are awkward, and Peyton comes across like he's a dickhead 100% more times than I thought he would. It plays like a twitch stream but it's on national television. They have the means to make it work but they don't know what they're doing. It worked when espn had dogshit announcers on the main channel but now that it's buck and aikman I'd rather listen to them instead of dead air and a B celebrity plugging their oatmeal or some shit while they pretend to know anything about what's happening with a 3 second delay on each response.

I liked Arnold though… am I basic? Also I liked watching Peyton dancing and showing off all the play calls and describing what they mean.

Guests were fun when they were brief and football related, and when they had good insight on the game. I’d rather listen to normal commentary than Arnold shill his book for 10 minutes.

I would love a show that had a lot of really detailed and insightful analysis from former players as the game played out live.

I have no interest in former players trying to be late night talk show hosts.

Accessibility is an issue.

It’s great for snippets of the show on short form media, but it’s not easy for any regular person to tune in.

The show peaked with Shannon Sharpe yelling "KICK WHAT?"

Two issues:

1. Guests — They rarely add value. Cut them down to 1 minute tops.

2. Latency — Delay kills the rapport.

Never watched it

This shit jumped the shark long ago

Two boring middle-aged dudes talking football in between plays on a couch for 3 hours isn't entertaining.

Because it’s awkward and not interesting

The resent games haven't been very good.

Play by play announcing is important to me.

I turn on the Manningcast very rarely just to get a glimpse of it, but they would have to be unreasonably funny/insightful to make me give up a play by play announcer.

I don’t like the Manning cast. I like hearing the crowd noise and the “football sounds” instead of guys talking.

They should be in the same room

No more celebrity cameos please. Players/coaches are fine as long as they’re engaged with the game and not talking about what they had for dinner.

Get it off espn so they don’t have to be censored and stop the stupid fucking ads and people would love it

Turns out people might actually just want to watch the game.

They need to be in the same room together. They are always stepping on each other's words. I don't want Manning take, I want to feel like I'm in a man cave watching football with the Brady killer bunch.

They had a good thing going and are ruining it with boring guests that talk about anything but the game.

More and more viewers leave and don’t bother coming back when they do that.

This game has major playoff implications, so lets talk to Ray Romano about his new comedy with Tim Allen. So you're a pair of dads over 60, is that right?

Best guest so far was Aaron Rodgers, regardless of what you think of him personally. They talked football and it was entertaining. They need to have former players. Thats really the only time i get excited

It's the split screen and the bottom line for me. You barely can even see the game.

I’m an absolute die hard nfl fan who loves the manning brothers and I never made it past the first manningcast. To me it always felt like they missed

lol… I fucking love it.

Also did anyone catch Peyton’s set up joke about the Jets last night on the CMAs?

Literally love the show but for me I want to be able to see the game at all times on the screen. I don’t mind seeing them on the screen just keep the game on the screen. They are funny and the show is great they just cut away from the game to much

I got stuck watching it one time as it was the only stream available and it was SO bad. Barely even talk about the game at all, it was like trying to watch a game while a random YouTube video plays over it.

At this point it's not like hanging with friends watching football, it's like watching rich people watch football and sell you shit and talk about anything but the game.

Sorry but I'd rather drink beers and eat wings with the bros and have fun than be bored to literal death watching these two and their guests.

One big ad. And you gotta pay to see the show? Yeah.. no.

They need to do this in a studio, and make guests come to them. The audio delays, the talking over each other, the staring up at screens like the guest is looking at stars, never flows as it should. One guest a game.

Imagine that

I'd watch it if I could-- but ESPN is not transparent or upfront about pricing/packages.

Games are on too late for me

I never watch them but getting 2 HOF (not eli IMO but close enough) to talk about football should be for football nerds who want in depth, technical players from the horses mouth.

Their audience is not the TSwift fans who wanna learn more about Kelce and maybe a little football talk..

Sounds like they are ruining a good thing by trying to make it something it's not

The answer is obvious. THEY NEED TO HAVE T SWIFT ON THE SHOW

I’d watch it but it’s not on tv.

They are terrible interviewers. Peyton takes his job way to serious. And afraid to do anything to upset ESPN man crumbles and apologizes if any tiny thing is wrong. The chemistry is off because of video call lag. Not sure why it’s so hard for two brothers to sit in one room together for 1 day a week.

Please don’t drop them….I can’t stand listening to Buck

I have never watched this and still have 0 interest in watching.

I don't care for the guests. I want to hear Peyton and Eli talk football, and it's too full of fluff. I don't think I've watched an entire ManningCast since the first season.

I hadn't seen any since week 1? It doesn't help that every week I tried to watch MNF was the week they took off. Doing it only every other week makes it inconsistent. Plus, the program name on ESPN2 isn't even Manningcast on comcast, so I never recognized it was on. Once I found an ESPN2 broadcast on an off week, I never checked ESPN2 again. Had Manningcast been in the title, I would have seen it right beside ESPN's MNF.

I love it when it's them or with a football guest

The celebrities have turned me off regular viewing though

Weird comment but I feel like I can't hear them well.

Everytime I've tried to watch on ESPN+ it's no longer there?

In third year learning about ManningCast for the first time via a reddit post ragging on it. Didn't know it existed before and with all these hot takes will definitely not be looking for it in the future. Good job marketing team.

I’m Irish so I don’t watch American sports too regularly, and when I do it’s only the big games in the NFL / NBA or the final few playoff games.

But here’s my 2 cents from an outsiders perspective. The sports I watch the most are the Gaelic Games (hurling & football), and rugby. These sports are 40 mins of non stop action, half time, 40 mins of non stop action, end. American sports are RIDDLED with advertisements at every available opportunity. Timeout? Ad break. Turnover? Ad break. Injury? Ad break. Penalty? Ad break, I could go on.

Now it seems as though the NFL aren’t happy with having ads between every single passage of play, they want to also incorporate ads in to the commentary as the play is happening, as per this example of Arnold plugging his book.

Couple this with two dudes who are utterly passionate about the game being played, and the guests just there to promote themselves, you can really see why this system is kinda set up to fail, which is unfortunate.

It’s so much better when it’s just the two of them, or the guest is someone knowledgeable about football AND interested in the game. When they bring in random actors who barely know what a forward pass is, then it gets cringe.

Stop doing guests. Just Manning + Manning breaking down the game. Don't force an interview in where it isn't needed