Greg Olsen never criticized Tom Brady to overcome him in the depth table of Fox Sports. Anyway, the former wing of the Carolina Panthers and the current Fox color commentator felt the need to clarify his relationship before the Super Bowl Lix in New Orleans, where Brady, and not Olsen, will call the action for Fox.
“I know that my comments last week took a crazy storm,” Olsen admitted at NFL Network on Thursday.
I really talked to Tom. I have spoken with Tom regularly throughout the season. We have come to know each other very well, I have a lot of respect for him, which needs to be said as a player. But I really enjoyed knowing him as a guy since he joined Fox.
As Olsen said 39 The Atlético In a and answers of the questions and answers last month, Brady does not bother him after the seven -time Super Bowl champion passed it. But it is strange to work in the largest NFL games, such as the Super Bowl of Eagles-Chiefs that he called two years ago in Miami.
“I don't think the resentment is probably accurate,” Olsen told Athletic. “But I also think it's not far away if I'm honest.”
But Olsen stopped to criticize Brady, who is in the first year of a 10 -year agreement and $ 375 million with Fox.
Greg Olsen talks about Siriusxm at the Super Bowl Lix on Wednesday in New Orleans
Tom Brady will call his first Super Bowl on Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans
'All this Like narration,' I hate seeing him calling games 'and everything that is not true, “Olsen told Nfl Network.' So here I am, on national television, establishing the album … I like Tom. .. I try to help him, I answer the questions to what I can. I have no personal animosity. '
Olsen was at the stand a few years ago when Kansas City bosses played the Philadelphia Eagles for the first time in the Super Bowl.
Now, with the two teams gathered again on Sunday, he will score again, as it was during the NFC championship on Sunday in Philadelphia.
“Now it is very difficult to see the games and sit down and look,” Olsen told Atletic last month.
Brady has received important criticisms in his first year with Burkhardt in the Fox stand. More recently he was roasted for an error he made during the NFC Commodines game between the Eagles and the Green Bay Packers.
With the time ending in the first half, and the Eagles went up 10-0, Brady decided to praise a game call from Philadelphia. Unfortunately for him, he had a bit of sliding of the tongue and said the name of the baseball team of the City of Fraternal Love, instead of the football team.
'(You have) three waiting times, so you would have a couple of plays. But I like this call from the Philis … apology, from Philly, “Brady said in the air.
Brady also mixed the name of the Josh Jacobs Packers corridor, calling him Brandon Jacobs.
Brandon Jacobs is a NFL retired halfack, better known for winning two Super Bowls with the New York Giants, beating Brady both times.
Fans on social networks laid off Brady, saying that he and Burkhardt should be replaced by the 'No. 2 'Joe Davis and Olsen Fox Transmission Equipment.
The 'No. Davis/Olsen's 2 'team was voted as the best NFL transmission team of 2024 in a survey of more than 2,400 fans made by the Awful Annuncy sports media site. Burkhardt/Brady arrived 14 of 25 transmission equipment.
“Maybe Brady is not cut for transmission,” a user wrote on X, previously Twitter.
A few weeks before, Brady was torn by referring to the Steelers corridor, Najee Harris, such as Najeh Davenport. While the latter played the Pittsburgh post, he had not done so since 2008.
“Brady retreated this week,” Andrew Marchand, columnist of sports media of athletics, wrote in X. “There is no additional information all day. He said '' pieces' 'a thousand times'.
Fans dragged Brady on the embers, saying that he should be replaced by Fox Man No. 2 Greg Olsen
Marchand was not alone in his evaluation.
“Tom Brady replacing Greg Olsen in the stand is like Mac Jones replacing Brady in New England,” said Safid Deen de USA Today, referring to Brady's condemned replacement with the Patriots.
“Having to listen to Tom Brady makes this even more difficult,” said Jeff Hartman, a podcast host in the steel curtain network.
“If Fox does not download Brady after this season, some respect will be lost,” wrote former MLB writer Jed Weisberger. 'It is absolutely horrible as an analyst and has no capacity to do this job. It makes me desire that I was still writing national media. The worst of all.
However, Marchand gave a different tone during the NFC championship: “Brady is having his best game.”
As for Brady's future in the stand, his agent Don Yee denied that the ex QB could stop announcing to focus on the Las Vegas Raiders full time after being approved as a minority owner of the team last year.
“Tom has fun working with Fox this year, and is really excited about the future with Fox and his growth in his team,” Yee told Sports Business Journal. “And this year was the first year of a long relationship.”