Rising media superstar Jason Kelce paid an extended visit to the Monday night football stand during last night’s Falcons-Eagles game. The move was undoubtedly a huge success for Eagles fans.

And enraged those who supported the Falcons.

Fans of the Party (i.eall fans) often spend a great deal of time scrutinizing every word uttered by those covering a particular game, looking for evidence that a talking head “hates” their team. They routinely ignore the good and obsess over the bad, often twisting innocent comments into an indication that the announcers are “for” the other team.

Falcons fans didn’t need tinfoil hats last night. As many have said (including Devin McCourty on Tuesday PFT-live), Kelce’s presence made it seem like an Eagles preseason broadcast.

Kelce is great, and his talents (in my opinion) are wasted on a pregame show. He could make an excellent game analyst. But putting him in the booth for just the second Eagles game played without him will only anger those who follow the other team,

By the time things got interesting, Kelce should have been in the booth. Wouldn’t it have been great to hear what he had to say about the decision to blow third-and-3 from the Atlanta 10 with under two minutes to play and the Falcons out of timeouts? Would he have been critical, or would he have been a (former) company man?

Why not put him on standby for the postgame show? It would have been a perfect opportunity for Kelce to give some raw, real commentary on why the Eagles did what they did. And whether they should have done anything differently.

Kelce is probably glad he wasn’t in a position to comment on the situation. If he had defended the Eagles, many would have rolled their eyes. If he had called out the coach’s decision, he might have gotten some pushback from his former team.

That’s the real test for Kelce. Can he risk angering the only team he’s ever played for — and risk angering Philly fans — by speaking the unvarnished truth as he sees it?

First, he has to rewire his brain to see it, moving from “us” to “them,” and realizing that his primary job now is with the audience.