Jim Nantz Kept Questioning Phil Simms About Why Teddy Bridgewater Slipped in the Draft

At the end of the third quarter of Thursday night’s Packers rout of the Vikings, Jim Nantz and Phil Simms were discussing Teddy Bridgewater, who looked great last week against Atlanta before he injured his ankle. Simms talked about Bridgewater’s poor Pro Day; Nantz wondered why we kept hearing all last year that Bridgewater was the presumptive top pick, and what the point was of scouting his actual games when a tryout would drop his stock so much.

Simms fell back on the “Pundits don’t really know what NFL scouts were thinking all season” line of reasoning, but Nantz didn’t really let it slide, especially since Simms had just talked about the Pro Day disaster. Simms reiterated the NFL front office stuff, but not in a way that really put a dent in Nantz’s underlying argument. For those of us who have grown exasperated with logical flaws in Simms’ commentating, Nantz’s persistence was a bit of a moral victory.