The biggest games that rising sports announcer Noah Eagle gets to call each week come from Big Ten football, where NBC\u2019s Saturday night national window delivers some of the best matchups each weekend in college football.<\/p>\n
Add in a healthy dose of NFL and Eagle, despite starting\u00a0his impressive young career<\/a> on the basketball side, he is developing quite a resume in football as well.<\/p>\n Coming of age during a period of significant evolution on the football field, Eagle had to learn a lot on the fly. And in a new interview on\u00a0The Press Box podcast<\/a>, Eagle explained why he keeps it simple when it comes to outlining schemes or strategy as a play-by-play announcer \u2014 and why he believes all young announcers should do the same.<\/p>\n \u201cI talk to younger kids that are trying to get into football who are trying and trying to figure that same deal out of, OK, I don\u2019t really know the specifics, now, of what goes into playcalling or defenses that are being played,\u201d Eagle said.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I always say, \u2018Look, it\u2019s probably better if you don\u2019t necessarily know the intricate detail. You want to have a base knowledge of what\u2019s going on. So you want to know, probably, the most important things within packages or within formations. And then the most important thing you want to know is the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n New PRESS BOX:<\/p>\n We live in a media age of X\u2019s and O\u2019s. How much schematic football does a play-by-play announcer need to know?<\/p>\n Full interview with @NoahEagle15<\/a> here: https:\/\/t.co\/ZMIQiMIHhC<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Z09VrUwzAc<\/a><\/p>\n\n