FOX Sports had a messy Sunday on its hands, and viewers noticed immediately.
During the Week 2 early slate of the 2026 season, the network’s audio feeds were out of sync with the games on screen. Fans watching Packers-Jets were hearing Joe Davis call Bears-Vikings instead of Kenny Albert’s actual play-by-play, and the wrong audio then carried over into Falcons-Panthers as well.
The confusion spread fast. Packers reporter Jason Wilde even asked publicly whether he was the only one hearing Vikings-Bears audio during the Jets game.
Social media did the rest, with frustrated fans piling on over what looked like a broadcast meltdown. “Oh good I’m not having a stroke!” one fan wrote after realizing others were hearing the same thing.
“Yeah. It’s really irritating,” another added.
“And the amazing thing is… its not even being fixed,” a third fan pointed out.
“Somebody’s getting fired,” a fourth fan declared.
The problems didn’t stop with the audio. FOX’s scorebug disappeared briefly during overtime of Packers-Jets, turning an already chaotic afternoon into an even rougher one for the production crew.
Meanwhile, the action in Minnesota was producing its own moment, as Caleb Williams escaped a Vikings defender on a third-down scramble that fans were supposed to hear called correctly.
FOX got the audio fixed in time for the primetime window, when Kevin Burkhardt and Tom Brady were on Cowboys-Commanders as planned. Even there, Brady gave viewers another unexpected distraction by letting an unfiltered comment slip on air during a major moment.
FOX has not said what caused the earlier mix-up.
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