Mike Carey was once an NFL official. I won’t go look up his record but let’s just assume that he was decent at his job, considering he began as a line judge all the way back in 1990 and his 24-year career including officiating multiple playoff games and a Super Bowl.
All of this makes his body of work as the officiating expert on CBS’ NFL broadcasts very perplexing, and more than a little worriesome. He’s terrible. There seems to be no explanation for it, despite nearly unanimous agreement across the internet and all social media platforms that he is downright awful at explaining what is happening on the field.