Greg Olsen joined the Dan Patrick Present yesterday, and he was fairly sincere about not feeling nice that Tom Brady goes to bump him from the No. 1 slot on Fox broadcasts of the NFL. There’s additionally the little nugget that slotting down the No. 2 group goes to price Olsen some $7 million a 12 months. Onerous to take mendacity down.
It wouldn’t be stunning if Brady is appropriate or higher on the job. On the uncommon events he’s been left to simply communicate in regards to the ins and outs of the sport he’s fairly good at spelling issues out clearly. That doesn’t imply he must be computerized within the function, or why Fox thinks they want the most important title potential when their rankings are already by the roof and pay him a ridiculous sum of money to take action when Olsen is already doing the job in addition to potential.
This has change into one thing of an arms race between the networks, although it’s unclear why. Individuals are going to tune into the NFL if Statler and Waldorf had been doing the sport (and that’s an experiment price attempting). However as soon as CBS obtained the just lately retired Tony Romo, and everybody appeared to disregard how terrible he was on the job, after which ESPN chased down Buck and Aikman, and Amazon needed to have Al Michaels, everybody’s gotta have a toy. Olsen is merely good on the job, actually good, however that doesn’t transfer the needle, even when that needle solely exists in Fox executives’ heads.
Olsen is definitely getting screwed, and he’s much better on the job than Romo and prone to be higher than Brady. Like many individuals, he’s getting overwhelmed out by somebody with better title recognition and that’s it merely for the sake of it. However hey, that’s showbiz.
