Before Tom Brady left the NFL to become an analyst for FOX Sports, Greg Olsen was the network's No. 1 color commentator.
When Olsen was the No. 1 analyst for FOX's NFL coverage, he reportedly made $10 million per year. According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, the former tight end's salary dropped to $3 million since he technically got demoted.
During this Friday's edition of "Pardon My Take," Olsen was asked about his current situation at FOX.
Olsen has made it clear that he wants to call the biggest games in the NFL on a weekly basis. As long as Brady is part of FOX's team, that won't happen.
However, Olsen doesn't hold that against Brady. In fact, he said their relationship is on good terms.
"I always make sure I’m very clear where my personal aspirations to continue to ascend in this industry and to get back calling those games are completely independent of Tom and I," Olsen said, via Awful Announcing. "We’ve hung out, personally. We talk on the phone, we keep in touch, he sent a cool video for my youth football team…we talk about raising teenage daughters, we’ve gone to play golf together, we hung out at the Bahamas at a little retreat. We’ve gotten to be very good friends on a very personal level since he’s joined Fox."
Olsen reiterated that he has no animosity towards Brady.
"There's this idea that there's this personal animosity and competition. There’s not," Olsen said. "My relationship with Tom and Fox and Joe Davis and Burkhardt and all my people at Fox couldn’t be better. On the other parallel line to that, yes, I want to ascend in the industry, and I’m sure Joe Davis wants to call Super Bowls as well, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like Burkhardt. Any motivated guy, you want to be the best at what you do. That is not a knock on the people that are ahead of you."
Brady has already confirmed that he'll return to the broadcast booth for the 2025 NFL season. That means Olsen will remain on the No. 2 team for FOX.
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