CBS makes it hard to hear expensive voice

IN VIEW of the $17.5 million per season for 10 seasons CBS is paying Tony Romo, wouldn’t it behoove CBS to pay more attention to Romo’s delivery, just so, well you know, he can be heard?

Romo has a raspy voice, one that grows raspier with in-game use. The strain to hear what he’s saying escalates as he becomes difficult to hear beyond a muffle. Can’t CBS simply adjust the volume of his game microphone to meet his pipes?

At $17.5 million per, cut him a break! And if he’s worth hearing, cut us a break! ➤ We see that mindless “QB Passer Rating” stats have returned to TV, as if passes are the same as free throws. No. 19 of all-time? Chad Pennington . No 26 is Carson Palmer, No. 27 is Daunte Culpepper. Troy Aikman is 62nd, Bart Starr is No. 70 and Dan Fouts is 77th. Ken Stabler, who quarterbacked 13 postseason games, is No. 113. Joe Namath, who smartly threw the ball away to protect his knees — all incomplete passes, including drops, and throw-aways to avoid sacks, are factored as failures — is ranked No. 174, 100 places behind Jeff George. And Matt Hasselbeck, at 55th, was far better than John Elway, a mediocre QB at No. 78?

Those who favor the highpercentage short pass-and-run game are granted statistical supremacy, thus Case Keenum ,a last-resort QB for six teams, is ranked 40th while Terry Bradshaw is 148th. But keep those stats coming! ➤ Among the upsides to COVID-diminished live audiences: 1) In golf, no fools, drunken

or sober, hollering, “You da man!” or, “Get in the hole!”

2) No standard-silly shots of Giants or Jets fans, drunken or sober, banging the padded side of the lower deck in PSL Stadium.

➤ As soon as the Celtics served early notice that they would try — but fail — to beat the Heat with 3-point heaves in the Eastern Conference finals Wednesday, the clanging made me remember it was recycling night, thus I was gone to save the planet. The Celts took 40 3s, nearly half their field goal attempts, and made 14.