diff --git a/pkg/monitortests/network/legacynetworkmonitortests/networking.go b/pkg/monitortests/network/legacynetworkmonitortests/networking.go
index 0871f0cc158d..ebf0a9abb6d9 100644
--- a/pkg/monitortests/network/legacynetworkmonitortests/networking.go
+++ b/pkg/monitortests/network/legacynetworkmonitortests/networking.go
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ func testPodSandboxCreation(events monitorapi.Intervals, clientConfig *rest.Conf
 					event.Locator.OldLocator(), progressingOperatorName, event.Message.OldMessage()))
 			} else {
 				failures = append(failures, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%v - never deleted - operator:%s was progressing which may cause pod sandbox creation errors - %v",
-					event.Locator.OldLocator(), progressingOperatorName, event.Message.OldMessage()))
+					"%v - never deleted - %v",
+					event.Locator.OldLocator(), event.Message.OldMessage()))
 			}
 		} else {
 			timeBetweenDeleteAndFailure := event.From.Sub(*deletionTime)
@@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ func testPodSandboxCreation(events monitorapi.Intervals, clientConfig *rest.Conf
 				// withing five seconds, it ought to be long enough to know, but it's close enough to flake and not fail
 				flakes = append(flakes, fmt.Sprintf("%v - %0.2f seconds after deletion - %v", event.Locator.OldLocator(), timeBetweenDeleteAndFailure.Seconds(), event.Message.OldMessage()))
 			case deletionTime.Before(event.From):
-				// something went wrong.  More than five seconds after the pod ws deleted, the CNI is trying to set up pod sandboxes and can't
+				// something went wrong.  More than five seconds after the pod was deleted, the CNI is trying to set up pod sandboxes and can't
 				failures = append(failures, fmt.Sprintf("%v - %0.2f seconds after deletion - %v", event.Locator.OldLocator(), timeBetweenDeleteAndFailure.Seconds(), event.Message.OldMessage()))
 			default:
-				// something went wrong.  deletion happend after we had a failure to create the pod sandbox
+				// something went wrong.  deletion happened after we had a failure to create the pod sandbox
 				failures = append(failures, fmt.Sprintf("%v - deletion came AFTER sandbox failure - %v", event.Locator.OldLocator(), event.Message.OldMessage()))
 			}
 		}