Greg Olsen on His Role at FOX Sports with Tom Brady Becoming Lead Game Analyst | The Rich Eisen Show

like I told you you're so great at this you're so terrific at it you've excelled at it you called last year Super Bowl we all know Tom Brady's joining Fox Sports next year do you know what what your 2024 assignment is as you're yeah so as as of right now you know obviously we weren't sure if it was going to be for one year last year with the Super Bowl year and if Tom was going to come when he when he retired he decided to sit out another year and take another year off so allowed me to call it for the second year this past season and um you know it was just a matter of when you know we didn't know for sure how all the timing was going to work out and what not but obvious see it's pretty clear that Tom's going to come and he's going to take that seat alongside Kevin and and that's we we knew two years ago we signed up for but you know we think that the last two years what we've been able to you know put on tape right the the the players's word is hey you are what you put on tape and that's how people judge you we feel as good as you know as possible about what we can do I feel like I my goal is to call Number One games that has not changed if anything I'm even more committed to to chasing that that path and um as of now I'm still with Fox and going to be with Joe Davis on on the number two crew and and go back which was where Kevin and I were before we took over when Joe and Troy left and um you know so as of now but listen my my goal and I've been honest with Fox and they've been clear with me and uh I want to call top games I want to call Super Bowls I want to call games in front of 60 million people 115 million people you know that's where the magic is and that's where the excitement is no different than as a player nobody ever signs up to be a player to just say I'm happy to be on the team that's not my style I'm not just happy to be on the team and uh how all of that shakes out as we all know you just can't predict this industry but um I've enjoyed doing it I love doing it and uh it's something I hope I get to do for a long time again I I love your your honesty you know and that's you guys are you're the man you know your honesty is is and and I totally understand you know your approach and your opinion because I tell these guys all the time My Philosophy is not me then who and if not now when so I take advantage of any opportunity and I I I walk through front door I will tell anybody in management this is what I prefer to do this is what I'd like to do and if then we have a conversation and normally you know the a lot of respons is hopefully what I'd like to do and there's contracts and things of that nature where but you know you deserve to call games that you want to call I appreciate that you know and and I want to make everyone sure like you weren't going Royal where you're talking about your agent and your representes when like we feel that this is the or maybe your family or whomever when you're talking about we feel like we want to call the right game you were using the Wii right there you know yeah and and yeah and and I think that's the collective we in the sense of that I didn't just get to do these I didn't have these opportunities presented to me and I didn't do all of this by myself it was not just hey I woke up one day and said I'm going to go call games and went and sat in a booth and did it there was a lot of people and fox is at the top of that list right they're the ones who let me call a game in 2017 when I was a player and join a three-man booth with Charles and Charles Davis and and Kevin bur and other teams didn't want you in the production meetings right yeah the Vikings were not happy it was it was a whole thing but you know that was awesome it was unheard of for a former player to call and at the time that was the number two crew I mean they didn't stick me down the bottom and then I did a two I did my first Twan Booth with Kenny Albert in 2019 as a current player on a bye and me and Kevin called five weeks the only five weeks of the XFL so I mean there was a lot of people and a lot of people that gave me opportunities when you know listen I this is how I've summed it up from the beginning I was never going to win the resume award against every former coach and every NFL artback who retired with a Hall of Fame jacket mhm only way for me to ever survive in this industry and to ever Ascend in this industry is to be good that was that was my only option I didn't achieve there was nothing else I could fall back on well the guy got I needed to be good and that's why I thought I could do the games because not everyone wants to do games it's hard you know it's hard doing games it's it's hard but it's exhilerating there's nothing better it's exhilarating I love it and I was confident that if I was given opportunities and people could look past hey he doesn't have you know 10 Super Bowls he doesn't a Hall of Fame jacket you know didn't play in a Major Market didn't play in Dallas or New York or wherever could people just put all that aside and just go how does he do this job mhm if that was the way everyone was being judged and what not I felt like I could go Toe to Toe with anybody and that was my Approach early on and I told Fox I'm going to try to make this as hard as possible for you and I was on I'm on record saying that to them and I say that in J but like you wouldn't want me to approach it any other way you wouldn't want me just roll over and die and just say oh my God I'm just happy to be here no I'm going to try to be great if I am great if I stink it makes the job makes it a lot easier to be replaced catch the rich eyes and show every single day on the Roku Channel 12 to 3 Eastern for free