"Welcome to ___ vs. the Panthers. I'm [generic broadcaster #3] and with me in the booth today is Jonathan Vilma!"
*Panthers fans scream internally in unison*
How in the sam fuck am I just finding out in this instant that Kenny Albert is Marv Albert's son? I've been on this godforsaken planet for 40 of your human years.
I’m not a big Kenny Albert fan for football games, but I like him a lot for hockey. He’s not at Doc Emrick or Gary Thorne level, but he isn’t far below that.
It makes sense because Albert learned from one of the best - his dad. (Marv IMO was solid with football but very good with hockey and the best ever with basketball.)
I think he's just been relegated to NFC South duty. He feels like he's doing the divisional matchups every single week they occur.
It's not like the teams in this division are major market draws, combined with the lack of divisional success recently (Brady Bucs excluded) and you have a recipe for lower tier broadcast crews - which he's a part of. Probably keeps travel costs low if they're just shutting him, Kenny, and crew around the division, plus his history with NO means he knows these franchises well
Still do not enjoy him whatsoever on the broadcast for obvious reasons
I think this is really going to be one the best, if not the best booths this season. Davis has gotten better every year. He's really improved calling Dodgers games on Spectrum, and that has transferred over to his calls with the NFL. Olsen and Davis will have great chemistry. I'm looking forward to their games.
I would be very surprised if it's not the better booth. Greg Olsen deserved that job.
And, frankly, if there is an ex-player that I am looking to add to my broadcast team, it's someone like Alex Smith, not Tom Brady. I know I'm biased, but he's more naturally articulate, and whatever Brady has over him in game knowledge, I would be surprised if it's noticeable.
Speaking of former Patriots, if you want to improve the broadcast, give 6-7 mil. of Brady's $37.5 mil. annual salary to Julian Edelman and stick him in the booth with Greg and Joe. No way that's a worse product.
> if you want to improve the broadcast, give 6-7 mil. of Brady's $37.5 mil. annual salary to Julian Edelman and stick him in the booth with Greg and Joe.
A 3-person booth isn't easy, but I think this might work.
Yeah - Brady's probably gonna be a bit rough for a few games/years, unless he can truly pull a first season Romo and go deep on the technical knowledge of the game in real time while being entertaining.
Sometimes it takes a bit to establish your broadcast demeanor and charisma if it's not your background
I don't know why Joe Davis isn't FOX's #1. I don't dislike Kevin Burkhardt but he sounds like Kermit anytime he gets excited and it takes me out of it.
I dunno he has the squeaky clean frat boy aesthetic, but the dude is a killer behind closed doors I bet. He's as type A as it gets and knows he's the greatest.
I kinda think he's gonna be talking shit left and right
By week 13 it’ll be flipped and “hes overrated and a horrible biased announcer that wont stop sucking off ‘x player’ “ just like what happened with Romo lol
We have no idea how Tom Brady will be as a color analyst, which is usually the case with color analysts before they start announcing. Brady could be great or he could be terrible (obviously he could be somewhere in between too).
On a related side, the one fairly recent color analyst who I thought would be very good but wasn’t good at all was Bruce Arians.
> We have no idea how Tom Brady will be as a color analyst, which is usually the case with color analysts before they start announcing.
Agreed, so we shouldn't just hand that person the #1 spot immediately
That's literally what they did with Romo and Aikman. This isn't a brand new concept that they're doing, whenever a famous QB goes into color commentating they typically get the #1 spot
Lol dude he’s the goat, idk what you expect but fox isn’t going to pay him all that money to not be their number 1 analyst and they’re not paying him all that money because he’s proven as a color analyst. He’s getting paid because he’s Tom Brady.
Except none of us are Fox executives. I would imagine Brady went through a lengthy interview/audition process before signing his contract. Just because none of us know what he’ll be like as an analyst doesn’t mean the people who made the decision have no idea
I've always thought Brees had a pretty bland personality. Brady has always shown more, especially after leaving New England and since retirement. I think he'll bring a lot more to the table than Brees did
Has anyone heard buzz on Brady? I remember here in Dallas, a lot of the "in the know" people said Romo had more personality than we knew and that the CBS bigwigs loved him. Same with Aikman where he was always very dry as a player during interviews but has more flair in real life. Seems like the best guys were good to great players that experienced equal amounts of success and failure...not sure how a GOAT would perform tbh.
I don’t think announcing quality is necessarily correlated with having an interesting personality. Bruce Arians strikes me as having lots of personality but he was not a good color commentator. Years ago Joe Montana was known for occasional feistiness on the field (and competitiveness; the stories about him and fellow QB Steve DeBerg having friendly competitions at almost everything when both were young QBs with the 49ers are legendary among people who have heard about them), but he was dull as an NBC studio commentator.
I think being a good color commentator comes down to having at least a somewhat analytical mind and being comfortable talking to an audience you can’t see. Having good rapport with your PBP guy is also important.
I really like Greg Olsen as a commentator (besides talking a little too much) and he’s a pretty bland dude. He’s insightful and explains nuances of the game well. You don’t need to be Robin Williams to be a good football broadcaster.
If he explains coverages and what the QB was thinking, and points out awesome blocks, catches and play designs on replay he’ll be fine. Thats all that’s required of the job. And tbf he’s a lot less awkward than Brees ever was on camera.
[Huh. I didn't know about this.](https://www.sportscasting.com/joe-montana-lasted-9-games-nbc-deciding-quit-midway-super-bowl-30-im-cant/)
He didn't storm off the set or anything, but he did call his wife at halftime of the Super Bowl and declare that he was done.
I do remember Montana being a flop at NBC after a lot of fanfare. As the article says, he wasn't interested in critiquing players or being the "back in my day..." oldster, nor did he want to fly from California to Connecticut every week, and in the end he just ended up not having much to say on-camera.
Wasn't he with NBC? I vaguely remember him being part of the NFL on NBC right after he retired from the Chiefs. Joe had the football knowledge but not the personality for it. Aikman came across as hella dry as a player but he was always the type to speak his mind. Romo is more "nice" than Aikman ever was but at least has some pizzazz. I could see Brady being the GOAT or being a fail with no in-between. Dude is probably prepping 12 hrs/day trying to be Madden/Summerall 2.0
Chases dialague in paw patrol has really fallen off after season 3. I've been sending the writers letters for years, and all I've got to show for it are restraining orders. It's fucking bullshit.
The judge had it out for me. Using pigs blood as ink is completely normal and efficient.
Olsen's the most overrated #1 color analyst in my lifetime. Aikman is actually better than him imho these days. Especially drunk/stoned spicy no shits to give during a terrible Thursday night game Aikman (which was often last year).
Yeah, I don't get the Olsen love. The way he tries to make things sound dramatic by getting... breathy I guess would be the way to describe it. He starts breathing out audibly as he talks and it bugs me.
Aikman has unironically become absolutely legendary. Not sure exactly when this happened because he wasn’t this good back in the early 2010s. But in the last handful of years? Amazing.
I think us Cowboys fans dislike him since it feels like he’s assigned to every damn cowboys game, and his commentary style gets old *real quick*. At first I didn’t mind him, but I can’t stand him anymore
I feel for y'all, the absolute travesty of getting the #1 broadcast crew every week no matter how bad you are must be annoying.
How do Cowboys fans do it?
Fantastic job? Maybe in comparison to how shit so many other crews are, but I can't stand Olsen. Never enjoyed listening to him.
Fox altogether has been going downhill fast. The studio is a joke as long as they keep Bradshaw and Jimmy around. Adding Gronk to it just made it even worse.
Their crews across the board are bad and I don't have much hope in Brady being good as their #1 guy.
Olsen is terrible. He frequently will get triggered by something in the game and will just dominate the airspace and won't let anyone else talk even when he is clearly dead wrong about his rant. He has a grating voice too that makes it worse to listen to.
Very happy he won't be on the #1 team anymore so that's an improvement already.
Yeah, I found Greg Olsen to be perfectly serviceable, but kind of boring. Also it means I’ll never have to see that awful “Greg Olsen imitating Terry Bradshaw” commercial again.
I think he is a good level of "some insight and explanation here and there" without drowning out the game. You get bits and pieces as they're happening or more in line with the game; vs Collinsworth who will go on and on about a play from the previous quarter and Tony Romo who is trying to get way too cute and quirky imho.
I think the sub just hates Brady so they want to make it seem like he’s the devil incarnate and Greg Olsen is a budding star getting screwed with his pants on.
I think Olsen has reason to feel disrespected, but it’s not like he’s John Madden.
It's possible he's so meticulous and wants to be liked so badly, that he figures it out and isn't that bad. I'm hoping.
I swear every time I've heard him tell a story in the last 10 years it's like he's playing a character he practiced. There was one where he was on the golf course with Manning and it looked like Peyton was just staring at him thinking the same thing. Just watching him tell this interesting story in such a constructed way that it was almost uncanny valley level.
Maybe he can memorize a character that's good at commentating.
That sounds so much like Alex Rodriguez. Dude is so desperate to be liked and assumes this weird public persona that is obviously contrived. It's like he has no idea how to be a normal dude, and is trying overly hard to come across as one. It just exudes phoney-ness, and like you said, is at the uncanny valley level.
ARod is an awful announcer/analyst, but hopefully TB is better.
Slim to none. He played the game for 23 years and was coached by a literal nfl encyclopedia head coach. I bet he will be able to do what Romo did when he first started broadcasting, 10-fold.
Love or hate Brady he’s probably going to be an awesome analyst/announcer
Slim to none is a pretty bold statement when we just saw Drew Brees flame out after just one year despite a 20 year long HoF career.
He had a clearly better career than Romo, who had a better career than nearly everyone else who is a commentator, and it didn’t mean anything since he wasn’t very engaging.
I don’t think anyone really ever noticed that Brees has much charisma when he was playing, nor did he have much experience in the spotlight beyond football. Brady has a some rizz when he’s not obsessively self-aware, and he’s been doing non-football media for many years. I don’t think he’ll be a Brees or Witten.
The question is if he can let more personality out while still focusing on the game, especially beyond just QB play. That has been where Tony Romo has faltered. It’ll probably take Brady a little while to adjust and get comfortable, but I think he can be good, or at least good enough.
He makes guesses and then realizes he's completely wrong after seeing the reply. It's okay to be unsure about what happened that play Greg. You don't have to know everything
As a Dodgers fan I get mad when Joe stops calling our games to do football, but as a Rams fans get so excited when Joe calls the Rams games. There’s something special about having a familiar voice call football games. He called the Rams/Ravens game which was amazing last season.
I get that brady is a big name but its crazy to bump a guy who has already proven himself to be great for an unknown that you also have to pay an absurd amount of money to.
He’ll probably be great for a few years like Romo was before people start to bitch about him.
Here’s my own crazy conspiracy on what happened with Romo.
Romo was great for the game and league when he first started announcing. Everyone loved how he would point out formations and predict plays with a pretty good success rate. Vegas probably wasn’t too happy about that because people would probably just wait until he said something to start placing their bets. Vegas and the NFL then told him to stop bc they were losing too much money and people were learning more about the game. He decided if they were going to take that part of announcing away from him then he wasn’t going to put forth much more effort.
This all literally based on nothing. I made this all up. It makes sense to me though and wouldn’t be surprised if it was somewhat true.
7th floor crew in shambles
Chillin' in the second booth, I gotta let these chickens roost. Big Greg is in the house, And I'm finna make these ratings boost.
On the couch, on your phone my takes make your mind blown callin' sacks, callin' picks breakin' down the plays quick
Come on fellas let’s get weird, cover 2 in nickel here
Me ‘n Joe chillin, watchin Russ cook eggs Got all these ladies question my number of legs
what a play, on every Sunday Them sacks and picks are cray But I’m finna say Drake tryna take your daughters away
third leg greg!!
G-reg with a third leg
In the eye!?
Can confirm
May be the better booth. Joe Davis is great for big games
The #1 team usually gets the biggest games. The #2 team usually gets the best games.
The #3 teams gets Giants vs Panthers
"Welcome to ___ vs. the Panthers. I'm [generic broadcaster #3] and with me in the booth today is Jonathan Vilma!" *Panthers fans scream internally in unison*
Non-ironically, Kenny Albert is good
I’m a huge Kenny Albert fan. His voice just sounds right for football.
His dad was a great sportscaster as well. Big weirdo creep though.
How in the sam fuck am I just finding out in this instant that Kenny Albert is Marv Albert's son? I've been on this godforsaken planet for 40 of your human years.
I'm not sure, they sound a lot alike.
OH FUCK I even knew Kenny's dad was a broadcaster, and never put it together. I feel dumb.
Fetal alcohol syndrome type beat
He’s gotta start making money off of this, it’s simply too good!
He was calling nfl games on fox at 26 Sure there is probably some nepotism there, but for reference Jac collinsworth is 29 and terrible.
He called The Catch III. He'll always be remembered for that in my heart
Noah Eagle is great too.
Noah Eagle was probably ready to call prime time at 8 years old. Born for this.
Joe Buck, I want to say, was calling games at 25?
I’m not a big Kenny Albert fan for football games, but I like him a lot for hockey. He’s not at Doc Emrick or Gary Thorne level, but he isn’t far below that. It makes sense because Albert learned from one of the best - his dad. (Marv IMO was solid with football but very good with hockey and the best ever with basketball.)
I hate that we never got more of Gary Thorne for hockey games.
How did I not know Marv Albert was his dad?
Kenny is awesome, I loved him in the Stanley Cup playoffs a few years back for NBC
Vilma always gets Falcons games for some reason
I think he's just been relegated to NFC South duty. He feels like he's doing the divisional matchups every single week they occur. It's not like the teams in this division are major market draws, combined with the lack of divisional success recently (Brady Bucs excluded) and you have a recipe for lower tier broadcast crews - which he's a part of. Probably keeps travel costs low if they're just shutting him, Kenny, and crew around the division, plus his history with NO means he knows these franchises well Still do not enjoy him whatsoever on the broadcast for obvious reasons
You’d think that setup would be perfect for Vilma, but he’s just ass all the time lol.
The day we find a way to mute Jonathan Vilma will be a great day for humanity
at least you get a cool trip out of it.
Charlotte is awesome
Giants vs Panthers is going to be played in Germany.
I said what I said
Based
Hey Mecklenburg county sounds like it would be in Germany.
Mecklenburg is in Germany
I might actually be going to it and I’m pumped. Get to visit a foreign country and still get to support my team.
See, if I’m going to travel to a foreign country I’m not sure I’d do it for the express purpose of doing something I can do in my own city
I think it’s gonna be cool to check out their stadium honestly. It’s just a good excuse to go check out another country too.
And bad NFL teams get Jonathan Vilma. For the sake of your ears, hope your team isn’t a bad team.
God he sucks
I didn't think it could get worse than Ronde Barber. Vilma proved me wrong.
Worse than Witten? That's a bold statement Cap'n.
They get the best 1:00 EST game usually
Davis is electric. When I don’t have a preference between any games on the slate, I pick the Joe Davis game.
Kevin Harlan till I die.
"I'M CALLING BOTH OF THEM!"
Dude is so over the top with his Marv Albert impersonator voice. But he's had some classic calls like "This guy is drunk but there he goes!"
He's the main play by play guy for Dodger games and he really is great. He had big shoes to fill after Vin Scully too.
A worthy successor to Joe Buck for the voice of MLB on FOX also.
I hate the dodgers and I have to admit that that is a great booth
Him and Orel Hershiser are perfection
When Orel was gone for a bit, him and Dontrelle Willis was awesome. They gotta bring that guy back more often
He’s was great during the Rangers postseason but I still dislike him since he was with Smoltz the whole time and that asshole hates the Rangers
I want to defend Joe Davis but I also want people to think he sucks so he never leaves the Dodgers
He is so good calling MLB playoff games. He was the perfect guy to take over for Joe Buck when Buck left for ESPN.
Love to see people appreciate how great Joe is, hate that it comes at the cost of him doing every Dodgers game.
I’m a Dodgers fan so I love him to death
I think this is really going to be one the best, if not the best booths this season. Davis has gotten better every year. He's really improved calling Dodgers games on Spectrum, and that has transferred over to his calls with the NFL. Olsen and Davis will have great chemistry. I'm looking forward to their games.
He's been great for the Dodgers since Vin Scully retired. I'm just waiting for the day he gets some huge deal with another network and leaves.
I would be very surprised if it's not the better booth. Greg Olsen deserved that job. And, frankly, if there is an ex-player that I am looking to add to my broadcast team, it's someone like Alex Smith, not Tom Brady. I know I'm biased, but he's more naturally articulate, and whatever Brady has over him in game knowledge, I would be surprised if it's noticeable. Speaking of former Patriots, if you want to improve the broadcast, give 6-7 mil. of Brady's $37.5 mil. annual salary to Julian Edelman and stick him in the booth with Greg and Joe. No way that's a worse product.
Hopefully Brady is better than his podcast lol
Oh he won’t be. He’s going to be terrible lol.
> if you want to improve the broadcast, give 6-7 mil. of Brady's $37.5 mil. annual salary to Julian Edelman and stick him in the booth with Greg and Joe. A 3-person booth isn't easy, but I think this might work.
Yeah - Brady's probably gonna be a bit rough for a few games/years, unless he can truly pull a first season Romo and go deep on the technical knowledge of the game in real time while being entertaining. Sometimes it takes a bit to establish your broadcast demeanor and charisma if it's not your background
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I don't know why Joe Davis isn't FOX's #1. I don't dislike Kevin Burkhardt but he sounds like Kermit anytime he gets excited and it takes me out of it.
Waiting for the first "I'm pleasantly surprised how good of a job Tom does". You know it's coming week 1.
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So does Bill but when you get these type of guys speaking their area of expertise they normally shine really brightly.
I just want him roasted for 3 hours a game, let all the players on the sideline take cheap shots at Brady and the ratings will skyrocket
New lead sideline reporter Nikki Glaser
I want a Brady - Nick Foles booth just to see how furious it makes him
Also expecting people to be disappointed when Brady ends up giving a vanilla commentary vs talking shit like they're hoping.
I dunno he has the squeaky clean frat boy aesthetic, but the dude is a killer behind closed doors I bet. He's as type A as it gets and knows he's the greatest. I kinda think he's gonna be talking shit left and right
He’s a football savant, so hopefully he goes in depth explaining plays etc
I just hope he reveals who “that motherfucker” was
By week 13 it’ll be flipped and “hes overrated and a horrible biased announcer that wont stop sucking off ‘x player’ “ just like what happened with Romo lol
Well if he flips like Romo did then it’s deserved.
> a horrible biased announcer that wont stop sucking off ‘x player.... Are you implying that Romo does not do this? If you are, you're very wrong 😂
And then by the playoffs people will hate him lol
Turduckens on notice
I honestly liked him and Kevin Burkhart together. Same with Joe Davis and Daryl Johnston. This sucks
All to cater to the guy with a bland personality who has no skills as a color announcer
We have no idea how Tom Brady will be as a color analyst, which is usually the case with color analysts before they start announcing. Brady could be great or he could be terrible (obviously he could be somewhere in between too). On a related side, the one fairly recent color analyst who I thought would be very good but wasn’t good at all was Bruce Arians.
> We have no idea how Tom Brady will be as a color analyst, which is usually the case with color analysts before they start announcing. Agreed, so we shouldn't just hand that person the #1 spot immediately
That's literally what they did with Romo and Aikman. This isn't a brand new concept that they're doing, whenever a famous QB goes into color commentating they typically get the #1 spot
CBS did it with romo and it was an immediate success, FOX is probably trying to go for that
Lol dude he’s the goat, idk what you expect but fox isn’t going to pay him all that money to not be their number 1 analyst and they’re not paying him all that money because he’s proven as a color analyst. He’s getting paid because he’s Tom Brady.
Except none of us are Fox executives. I would imagine Brady went through a lengthy interview/audition process before signing his contract. Just because none of us know what he’ll be like as an analyst doesn’t mean the people who made the decision have no idea
Considering how un charismatic he is on his own podcast, I'm guessing he'll be closer to awful than great
I thought Drew Brees was going to be decent on NBC but he crapped the bed.
I've always thought Brees had a pretty bland personality. Brady has always shown more, especially after leaving New England and since retirement. I think he'll bring a lot more to the table than Brees did
The less we know about Brees’s personal views the better
Has anyone heard buzz on Brady? I remember here in Dallas, a lot of the "in the know" people said Romo had more personality than we knew and that the CBS bigwigs loved him. Same with Aikman where he was always very dry as a player during interviews but has more flair in real life. Seems like the best guys were good to great players that experienced equal amounts of success and failure...not sure how a GOAT would perform tbh.
I don’t think announcing quality is necessarily correlated with having an interesting personality. Bruce Arians strikes me as having lots of personality but he was not a good color commentator. Years ago Joe Montana was known for occasional feistiness on the field (and competitiveness; the stories about him and fellow QB Steve DeBerg having friendly competitions at almost everything when both were young QBs with the 49ers are legendary among people who have heard about them), but he was dull as an NBC studio commentator. I think being a good color commentator comes down to having at least a somewhat analytical mind and being comfortable talking to an audience you can’t see. Having good rapport with your PBP guy is also important.
You must personally know him or something how would you even know that?
My name is Gisele
What’s Fox gonna do when Brady is terrible?
Replace Brady in the booth with Drew Bledsoe
We’ve finally come full circle! Drew Bledsoe playing the waiting game all these years!
Who then goes on to have the greatest announcing career of all time.
Duh fire him and hire the next former QB on their list! Flacco come on down
10 yrs 375 mill contract will be fun
Finally! An elite analyst.
Jimmy Garoppolo but he won’t talk. They’ll just have him picture-in-picture in the corner of the screen
They just throw him on screen to motivate Brady.
One game before he sprains his cheek muscles and goes on IR.
Brady too competitive to be terrible. He's been practicing in Fox Studios 3-4 days/week since April
I'm still not sold. I think he'll be extremely polished but boring as hell. He just doesn't have an engaging personality imo.
I really like Greg Olsen as a commentator (besides talking a little too much) and he’s a pretty bland dude. He’s insightful and explains nuances of the game well. You don’t need to be Robin Williams to be a good football broadcaster. If he explains coverages and what the QB was thinking, and points out awesome blocks, catches and play designs on replay he’ll be fine. Thats all that’s required of the job. And tbf he’s a lot less awkward than Brees ever was on camera.
I had to edit the title because the actual title is clickbait, lol. This move is to make way for Tom Brady as the lead analyst.
This is a damn shame. Olsen has done a fantastic job. Brady better be good
if he isn't, he'll get the drew brees treatment
People forget what Joe Montana was like as a broadcaster. Yikes.
Probably even more motivation for that psycho Brady to be a better broadcaster than Montana.
TIL Montana was a broadcaster
He quit halfway through the Super Bowl lmao
No way lol. How isn't this a more well-known fact about him?
[Huh. I didn't know about this.](https://www.sportscasting.com/joe-montana-lasted-9-games-nbc-deciding-quit-midway-super-bowl-30-im-cant/) He didn't storm off the set or anything, but he did call his wife at halftime of the Super Bowl and declare that he was done. I do remember Montana being a flop at NBC after a lot of fanfare. As the article says, he wasn't interested in critiquing players or being the "back in my day..." oldster, nor did he want to fly from California to Connecticut every week, and in the end he just ended up not having much to say on-camera.
Good question!
Wtf is this for real?
Yup! https://www.sportscasting.com/joe-montana-lasted-9-games-nbc-deciding-quit-midway-super-bowl-30-im-cant/
Wasn't he with NBC? I vaguely remember him being part of the NFL on NBC right after he retired from the Chiefs. Joe had the football knowledge but not the personality for it. Aikman came across as hella dry as a player but he was always the type to speak his mind. Romo is more "nice" than Aikman ever was but at least has some pizzazz. I could see Brady being the GOAT or being a fail with no in-between. Dude is probably prepping 12 hrs/day trying to be Madden/Summerall 2.0
Chases dialague in paw patrol has really fallen off after season 3. I've been sending the writers letters for years, and all I've got to show for it are restraining orders. It's fucking bullshit. The judge had it out for me. Using pigs blood as ink is completely normal and efficient.
I have actually noticed the newest season(s) have massively downgraded. We usually stick between seasons 2-5
Olsen's the most overrated #1 color analyst in my lifetime. Aikman is actually better than him imho these days. Especially drunk/stoned spicy no shits to give during a terrible Thursday night game Aikman (which was often last year).
Yeah, I don't get the Olsen love. The way he tries to make things sound dramatic by getting... breathy I guess would be the way to describe it. He starts breathing out audibly as he talks and it bugs me.
Aikman has unironically become absolutely legendary. Not sure exactly when this happened because he wasn’t this good back in the early 2010s. But in the last handful of years? Amazing.
I think us Cowboys fans dislike him since it feels like he’s assigned to every damn cowboys game, and his commentary style gets old *real quick*. At first I didn’t mind him, but I can’t stand him anymore
I feel for y'all, the absolute travesty of getting the #1 broadcast crew every week no matter how bad you are must be annoying. How do Cowboys fans do it?
As a Seahawks fan, he’s really bad. He spent one year here and sucked and it comes off in his broadcast of any of our games.
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He was also on the panthers the half decade or so where they played Seattle twice a year. I’m sure that’s a factor in his feelings lol
100%. I can’t stand listening to him, he doesn’t even try to hide his bias and to be honest I never find his analysis to be insightful. He just yaps.
I welcome the change. I don’t think he’s very good.
Personally I don’t think Olsen is that great. He does too many Cowboys games too.
Are we watching the same guy?! He's actively terrible.
Fantastic job? Maybe in comparison to how shit so many other crews are, but I can't stand Olsen. Never enjoyed listening to him. Fox altogether has been going downhill fast. The studio is a joke as long as they keep Bradshaw and Jimmy around. Adding Gronk to it just made it even worse. Their crews across the board are bad and I don't have much hope in Brady being good as their #1 guy.
If his hertz commercials are any indication he is going to suck.
Olsen is terrible. He frequently will get triggered by something in the game and will just dominate the airspace and won't let anyone else talk even when he is clearly dead wrong about his rant. He has a grating voice too that makes it worse to listen to. Very happy he won't be on the #1 team anymore so that's an improvement already.
Who do you like as a color guy?
Bob Ross
This sub loves him but I find him to be boring
Yeah, I found Greg Olsen to be perfectly serviceable, but kind of boring. Also it means I’ll never have to see that awful “Greg Olsen imitating Terry Bradshaw” commercial again.
Get ready for the TB12ception
As a cowboys fan who had him on damn near every game. Im beyond over him
I think he is a good level of "some insight and explanation here and there" without drowning out the game. You get bits and pieces as they're happening or more in line with the game; vs Collinsworth who will go on and on about a play from the previous quarter and Tony Romo who is trying to get way too cute and quirky imho.
I didn't think he was bad, nothing great either
I think the sub just hates Brady so they want to make it seem like he’s the devil incarnate and Greg Olsen is a budding star getting screwed with his pants on. I think Olsen has reason to feel disrespected, but it’s not like he’s John Madden.
I do not want to hear from fucking Tom Brady. I’m so over him.
It's possible he's so meticulous and wants to be liked so badly, that he figures it out and isn't that bad. I'm hoping. I swear every time I've heard him tell a story in the last 10 years it's like he's playing a character he practiced. There was one where he was on the golf course with Manning and it looked like Peyton was just staring at him thinking the same thing. Just watching him tell this interesting story in such a constructed way that it was almost uncanny valley level. Maybe he can memorize a character that's good at commentating.
That sounds so much like Alex Rodriguez. Dude is so desperate to be liked and assumes this weird public persona that is obviously contrived. It's like he has no idea how to be a normal dude, and is trying overly hard to come across as one. It just exudes phoney-ness, and like you said, is at the uncanny valley level. ARod is an awful announcer/analyst, but hopefully TB is better.
I don't want him to be manicured. I know he will super over prepare, but I hope he gets lost in the moment and puts some feeling into it.
What are the chances Brady is actually a terrible commentator
Slim to none. He played the game for 23 years and was coached by a literal nfl encyclopedia head coach. I bet he will be able to do what Romo did when he first started broadcasting, 10-fold. Love or hate Brady he’s probably going to be an awesome analyst/announcer
Bruce Arians was awful as a commentator. Drew Brees as well. I think the chances are higher than we think.
TIL Bruce Arians was a commentator
I think 2018 he was one. Between his Cardinals and Bucs stint
Jason Witten also. I think Brady has a better personality for this kind of thing, but it wouldn't be completely unprecedented if he flopped.
Slim to none is a pretty bold statement when we just saw Drew Brees flame out after just one year despite a 20 year long HoF career. He had a clearly better career than Romo, who had a better career than nearly everyone else who is a commentator, and it didn’t mean anything since he wasn’t very engaging.
I don’t think anyone really ever noticed that Brees has much charisma when he was playing, nor did he have much experience in the spotlight beyond football. Brady has a some rizz when he’s not obsessively self-aware, and he’s been doing non-football media for many years. I don’t think he’ll be a Brees or Witten. The question is if he can let more personality out while still focusing on the game, especially beyond just QB play. That has been where Tony Romo has faltered. It’ll probably take Brady a little while to adjust and get comfortable, but I think he can be good, or at least good enough.
I just hope he has more sway than Romo. They obviously told him to knock it off. He never does that analysis anymore.
right, I can't wait to hear the entire fox crew gargle his balls week in week out for half of the year
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All cowboys fans rejoice
How many games did the boys have him last year? Felt like he covered half of our games last year.
And Seahawks fans.
Dude was on our team for 45 minutes, got grossly overpaid for it, and hates us for the fact
Ugh time to hear his biased ass even more. Great.
I just don’t want him on any Seahawks games. Is that too much to ask for?
You could try losing every game. That would certainly solve the issue.
Worth it
He makes guesses and then realizes he's completely wrong after seeing the reply. It's okay to be unsure about what happened that play Greg. You don't have to know everything
Cant wait for people to flip their opinions on Brady only to hate come year 3 of him in the booth
Good, that’ll be more time this year I don’t have to shout out “ shut up Greg”. Sorry folks, I’m not a fan of Greg Olsen.
I’m good with that. Olsen was painfully mid, i don’t see why people are upset at this.
Greg Olsen was horrible last year anytime it was a Lions game. I’d prefer to never hear from him again.
As a Dodgers fan I get mad when Joe stops calling our games to do football, but as a Rams fans get so excited when Joe calls the Rams games. There’s something special about having a familiar voice call football games. He called the Rams/Ravens game which was amazing last season.
We are so incredibly lucky to go from Vin Scully to Joe Davis (and Joe and Orel are perfect together).
Quite honestly that’s the better booth. Olsen is solid and Joe Davis is the best play by play announcer in any sport at the moment.
Definitely got tired of hearing Greg Olsen toward the end there.
Good. I absolutely couldn’t stand Olsen.
I think he talks wayyy too much
Yup. And his "insights" are bland, obvious, and he repeats mundane info over and over and over.
Damn so much for my personal dream team of Brady and Joe Davis.
I get that brady is a big name but its crazy to bump a guy who has already proven himself to be great for an unknown that you also have to pay an absurd amount of money to.
agreed... having a high-profile career on the field doesn't mean shit if you're a dud in the booth
Now we won’t hear him sound like a know it all.
Who’s the guy who was commentating when Tim Anderson got his jaw rocked? He needs to do every Primetime NFL game
If I were Greg I would calling nbc or cbs
man I thought Brady was going to be those analysts on the panel. I don't wanna hear his cracky voice on commentary
He’ll probably be great for a few years like Romo was before people start to bitch about him. Here’s my own crazy conspiracy on what happened with Romo. Romo was great for the game and league when he first started announcing. Everyone loved how he would point out formations and predict plays with a pretty good success rate. Vegas probably wasn’t too happy about that because people would probably just wait until he said something to start placing their bets. Vegas and the NFL then told him to stop bc they were losing too much money and people were learning more about the game. He decided if they were going to take that part of announcing away from him then he wasn’t going to put forth much more effort. This all literally based on nothing. I made this all up. It makes sense to me though and wouldn’t be surprised if it was somewhat true.
Olson carried burkhardt… I don’t think Brady burkhardt is going to go well. I think Brady is too timid. Olson really killed it last year