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Report: NBC To Use Skycam Angle For Steelers/Titans

Steelers Titans Week 1

BY ALEX KOZORA NOVEMBER 9, 2017 AT 12:17 PM
The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans will be sort of a guinea pig for a concept that’s been used out of necessity the past few weeks. Next Thursday, NBC will use the Skycam angle as their primary shot, they announced today.


“After pivoting out of necessity to SkyCam in the New England fog, we’ve been aggressively planning and testing with the intent of utilizing the system for a full game,” said NBC executive producer Fred Gaudelli (a legend for anyone who pays attention to this stuff).


“Younger generations of NFL fans have grown accustomed to watching football from this angle through their love of video games. This telecast will have a look and feel akin to that experience. We’ll still have our full complement of cameras and will revert to traditional coverage when situations dictate, but the primary viewing experience of the game will come from the SkyCam angle. Thursday Night Football has always been about technical innovation and new technologies, and this production will fit perfectly with that.”

As he mentions, NBC has had to switch to the Skycam angle twice recently due to foggy weather that made it impossible to watch the game from an aerial view. For those unfamiliar, here’s what the Skycam angle looks like from an Ohio State/Notre Dame game last year.



This will give more of an “All-22” feel to each game and provide a much better look at the entire field. You’ll be able to watch blocking lanes unfold, route combinations, and coverages, with much less guesswork.

As the press release indicates, NBC will still use “traditional” camera angles when appropriate but this is an exciting time to be a football fan.

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How does this help the P*triots?

More to the point, how does this aid the NFL in sending T*m cheatin' Br*dy off into the sunset with his coveted 6th testament to corruption and scandal?
 
This is the way football should be watched. Seeing the play unfold. The blocking, the routes of the receivers, the defensive set. I always hated not being able to see deep down field on the side angle, though it does create, he's throwing deep, and you have no idea what will happen till the ball gets down field and you see a receiver.

Now armchair QBs will be able to say, look he's open, then watch the QB throw there. Or get really pissy when they don't. Still the best way to watch football to get an understanding of gaps, alignments, and blocking technique.
 
Cope said:
This is the way football should be watched. Seeing the play unfold. The blocking, the routes of the receivers, the defensive set. I always hated not being able to see deep down field on the side angle, though it does create, he's throwing deep, and you have no idea what will happen till the ball gets down field and you see a receiver.

Now armchair QBs will be able to say, look he's open, then watch the QB throw there. Or get really pissy when they don't. Still the best way to watch football to get an understanding of gaps, alignments, and blocking technique.
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Agree Cope as that's the view I get on my coaches view when I re-watch the game in Coaches view mode. Amazing how the NFL can avert attention to hide things.






Salute the nation
 
Translation - we think millennials will like this and that’s all we care about. The rest of you can go **** yourselves if you don’t like it. But please keep buying NFL products.


Skycam is hit or miss for live plays. If it happens to be focused where the ball goes, it’s great but sometimes the action of the play is off in the corner of the screen.
 
The only thing I don't like about the sky cam is it gives that motion during plays which kind of sucks. I'd prefer a stationary camera, behind the QB on the wire, and doesn't move unless a pass goes downfield.
 
Watching it now. 35 years of watching football on tv from a certain angle. It does show the action as it is. Im just having a hard time adjusting to it. So far I dont like it.
 
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NFL is trying to take over !
 
Come to think of it, I don't think the NFL can use the sky cam if the offense is backed up to their end zone. I don't think the wires will work with the goalposts. I'd assume the ball has to at least be on the 20 to work.
 
SteelerSask said:
Watching it now. 35 years of watching football on tv from a certain angle. It does show the action as it is. Im just having a hard time adjusting to it. So far I dont like it.
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Yeah, it's just not how I've grown accustomed to watching the game. It actually looks too much like a video game.

The conventional camera angle just makes the game look most similar to the perspective of the fans attending the game in person.

The sky view basically shows a bunch of helmets moving around.
 
I'm split on this. I'm accustomed to the way we've always watched, but as Cope said, it makes me feel like I am at the game watching from the upper end zone bleachers. You see things you don't see on most telecasts.
 
I wonder how the kneel downs will look?
 
Cope said:
Come to think of it, I don't think the NFL can use the sky cam if the offense is backed up to their end zone. I don't think the wires will work with the goalposts. I'd assume the ball has to at least be on the 20 to work.
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Couldn't they shoot the play from the opposite side of the field? Maybe....
 
Any instances where the camera or wires interfered with the ball?

Kind of like Jerry's scoreboard.
 
My main concern is making sure we can see the whole field. With the sideline view you typically can't see the receivers running routes until the camera moves with the football. With the video game view, we should get the entire field if they do it correctly.
 
Nauseating. They do this in college games now and it sucks, just show the dammed regular field angle


I know, why don't they put GoPros on everyones helmets and we can watch 22 shaky POV camera shots on every play! Wow! How exciting!
 
Cope said:
The camera has to be behind the offense, otherwise there is a chance the ball could hit it or the wires.

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Gotcha.......that almost seems to obvious yet I didn't think of it. LOL
 
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