1. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman went from Fox to ESPN. Al Michaels went from NBC to Amazon. Mike Tirico has been elevated as the voice of Sunday Night Football. Kirk Herbstreit added an NFL gig and joined Amazon. Kevin Burkhardt became Fox’s lead NFL play-by-play man. And then Tom Brady and Fox announced a shocking marriage.
There was still one domino left to fall after all these moves: Who would become Burkhardt’s partner on Fox until Brady decides to hang it up for real? That domino fell yesterday when the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reported that Fox will elevate Greg Olsen to the No. 1 role (which means he will call this year’s Super Bowl) until Brady is ready to become a broadcaster.
This is a fascinating scenario for many reasons. It raises the question: Will Olsen be the No. 1 guy for one season? Two seasons? Three seasons? Nobody in the world, including seemingly Tom Brady, knows when Tom Brady is going to be done as a quarterback. Personally, I’d be stunned if Brady only played for one more season. I don’t think you go through a five-minute retirement just to come back for one season. Brady clearly wants to play until his abilities diminish and that hasn’t happened yet.
