No matter what team wins or loses on Thursday Night Football, Al Michaels will always get slandered. The Cincinnati Bengals visited the M&T Bank Stadium to beat Lamar Jackson and his Baltimore Ravens. He said something in the game that people thought was a flat-out lie and won’t cut him any slack for spreading “misinformation.” That too about Andrews.

Coincidentally, the Ravens TE suffered a serious left ankle injury in the week 11 game against the Cincinnati Bengals in the last season. It was a tackle, but what Al Michaels said was something way off the mark. The injury made Mark Andrews miss a couple of games. But he eventually returned to play against the Chiefs in the AFC title match.

The initial prognosis of Andrews’s injury was that it happened due to a hip drop tackle. That happened when he was tackled by the LB Logan Wilson, the Bengals LB. Andrews had to undergo surgery to fix his fractured fibula and ligament damage. The tackle happened when Andrews headed for the first down with just 11 minutes remaining on the clock. Though the TE was injured, the Ravens still won that game 34-20.

After the tackle, Andrews got up in agony. Spectators saw him walking gingerly off the field. While people thought Andrews wouldn’t return for the season, he got back on the field way ahead of time. He played the AFC Divisional playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Ravens lost that game 17-10.

While countless sources suggest that the injury happened due to a hip drop tackle, a lot of fans think otherwise. We’ll talk about that in a minute. After the injury, Andrews spoke to the media, saying, “Taking that tackle out of the game is not a bad thing,” and that “I think defenses can find a way to get around that.”

So, what do people think about Al Michaels’s assessment of Mark Andrews’ injury?

Fans react to Al Michaels’ game calling

One fan begged to differ from what the commentator on Thursday Night Football said as they pointed out, “Hey @NFLonPrime Mark Andrews NOT the victim of a hip drop tackle last year in this game. Al Michaels, stop lying.” Another person just thought how the commentator is just a “salty old man.”

Another fan just highlighted the perennial narrative surrounding Al Michaels by saying, “Al Michaels sucks.” A fan thought that the commentator was spreading “propaganda.” He wrote, “I love Al Michaels but saying that Mark Andrews was the ‘victim of a hip drop tackle’ in this game last year is straight propaganda.”

One fan just dropped an F-bomb calling out the veteran. Another one said something interesting, “Al Michaels still calling the Logan tackle of Mark Andrews a hip drop when the league sent out a video of it. Saying it was not one by the rule they’ve put in place.”

What do you think about Michaels’ commentary and Mark Andrews’ injury? Let us know in the comments.