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Andy Nesbitt

NFL Fans Ripped Cris Collinsworth for His Weird Claim About Why Backup QBs Are ‘Fat’

Cris Collinsworth has never been afraid to speak his mind while calling some of the biggest NFL games each week, which often leads to lots of fans being annoyed by something he says during a broadcast. 

That continued on Saturday when he and Mike Tirico were in the booth for the Bills-Chargers showdown at SoFi Stadium. The former wide receiver got rambling about NFL backup quarterbacks, which led to him saying that many are “fat” because they don’t get a lot of reps during practice each week

For real. He said that.

Tirico, meanwhile, had a perfect response to that:

Fans were not impressed: 

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