Fox Sports commentator Greg Olsen is 賞賛するd for calling out 最高の Bowl LVII 公式の／役人s ahead of ぼんやり現れるing 2024 空気／公表する-time 戦う／戦い with 同僚 Tom Brady

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If you don't have anything nice to say, say it to football fans.

That was the takeaway from Fox Sports commentator Greg Olsen's 最高の Bowl LVII 業績／成果 after the retired tight end slammed a late 防御の 持つ／拘留するing call against Philadelphia Eagles cornerback James Bradberry. The hotly 論争d 刑罰，罰則 led to the Kansas City 長，指導者s' game-winning field goal, にもかかわらず the 近づく-ごくわずかの 接触する and the overthrown pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes to JuJu Smith-Schuster.

But while Fox's 支配するs 分析家 and former NFL 公式の／役人 マイク Pereira 主張するd the refs got the call 権利 on the field, Olsen 辞退するd to give him the 利益 of the 疑問.

'I don't know,' said Olsen, a long-time Carolina Panthers 星／主役にする. 'マイク, listen, I think on this 行う／開催する／段階, I think you let them play. 明白に, Mahomes thought he saw it. I don't know; I think you let them play, finish this thing out. I don't love that call, マイク.'

It wasn't sports 無線で通信する-style takedown that many football fans have grown accustomed to, but it did endear Olsen to the NFL audience, which has become 批判的な of announcers' 不本意 to point the finger at 公式の／役人s. その上に, it raises the spectre of an airtime 戦う／戦い between him and recently retired Tom Brady, who has a 10-year, $375 million commentating を取り引きする the 網状組織 that begins in 2024.

Greg?Olsen (権利), 37, and his play-by-player partner Kevin Burkhardt (left), 48, were calling their first 最高の Bowl for Fox after the 網状組織 watched Joe Buck and Troy Aikman leave for ESPN before the 2022 season. The next time Fox will 空気／公表する the 最高の Bowl will be 2025, by which point, Brady is 推定する／予想するd to be the 網状組織's 最高の，を越す commentator

Fox Sports commentator Greg Olsen's slammed a late 防御の 持つ／拘留するing call against Philadelphia Eagles cornerback James Bradberry (left). The hotly 論争d 刑罰，罰則 led to the Kansas City 長，指導者s' game-winning field goal, にもかかわらず the 近づく-ごくわずかの 接触する and the overthrown pass from quarterback Patrick Mahomes to JuJu Smith-Schuster (権利)

Olsen, 37, and his play-by-player partner Kevin Burkhardt, 48, were calling their first 最高の Bowl for Fox after the 網状組織 watched Joe Buck and Troy Aikman leave for ESPN before the 2022 season. The next time Fox will 空気／公表する the 最高の Bowl will be 2025, by which point, Brady is 推定する／予想するd to be the 網状組織's 最高の，を越す commentator.

'I wonder how Greg Olsen feels knowing this could be his first & last 最高の Bowl assignment?' tweeted Syracuse communications professor and former ESPN 生産者 Dennis Deninger. 'Tom Brady has already been 調印するd by FOX to take his 職業.'

New York 地位，任命する sports マスコミ columnist Andrew Marchand also 賞賛するd Olsen's commentary for the に引き続いて play, in which he realized 長，指導者s running 支援する Jerick McKinnon had an open path to the end zone.

Knowing the Eagles were out of timeouts late in the fourth, Olsen wisely said 'he's got to get 負かす／撃墜する,' rather than 得点する／非難する／２０ing and leaving Philadelphia with nearly a minute of game time to tie or 勝利，勝つ the 最高の Bowl.

McKinnon did just that, dropping to the turf to 始める，決める up the game-winning field goal, while making Olsen look almost telepathic in the 過程.

Tom Brady has a 契約 with Fox Sports to begin calling NFL games beginning in 2024

New York 地位，任命する sports マスコミ columnist Andrew Marchand also 賞賛するd Olsen's commentary for the に引き続いて play, in which he realized 長，指導者s running 支援する Jerick McKinnon had an open path to the end zone. Knowing the Eagles were out of timeouts late in the fourth, Olsen wisely said 'he's got to get 負かす／撃墜する,' rather than 得点する／非難する／２０ing and leaving Philadelphia with nearly a minute of game time to tie or 勝利，勝つ the 最高の Bowl. McKinnon did just that, dropping to the turf to 始める，決める up the game-winning field goal, while making Olsen look almost telepathic in the 過程

Tom Brady #12 of the New England 愛国者s 会合，会うs with Greg Olsen #88 of the Carolina Panthers に引き続いて the 愛国者s 10-3 preseason victory at Gillette Stadium on August 22, 2019

To Marchand, Olsen is Fox Sports' Brady, the hard-working student of the 行列 who has worked hard to become so 遂行するd in such a short 量 of time.

'When you look at it, Olsen as a 放送者 has done what Brady did as a player ― Olsen has earned everything he has gotten and （機の）カム up 抱擁する in the biggest of games,' Marchand wrote.

Former New York Daily New s and New York 地位，任命する writer Robert A. George felt that Fox would be foolish to 促進する Brady over Olsen.

Fox would be idiots to give Tom Brady the No. 1 分析家 gig after the 職業 Greg Olsen did this year (Brady is taking next year off ― but that should just solidify 決定／判定勝ち（する） in Olsen's 好意).

But not everyone was pleased with Olsen, who may have been wrong about Bradberry's 刑罰，罰則.

'Since 明らかに Greg Olsen gaslit everyone into thinking that was a bad 持つ／拘留するing call, here's the jersey 得る，とらえる and pull by Bradberry on JuJu Smith-Schuster,' read one tweet と一緒に a clip of the 刑罰，罰則. 'Not egregious but a pretty textbook 持つ／拘留する.'

'Honest opinion,' another fan began. 'Greg Olsen's call on the Bradberry 持つ／拘留する is the 推論する／理由 the audience is upset. Had he explained 経由で replay that the jersey was tugged and he 妨げるd his 大勝する, there would be いっそう少なく argument. But Olsen 説 'he had his 手渡す on his 支援する, I dunno,' sways public opinion.'

Even Bradberry has 譲歩するd that he pulled on Smith-Schuster's jersey.

'It was a 持つ／拘留するing,' Bradberry told reporters. 'I tugged his jersey. I was hoping they would let it slide.'

For the time 存在, Olsen remains Fox's 最高の，を越す broadcasting 乗組員, but the 網状組織 is 支払う／賃金ing Brady extraordinarily 井戸／弁護士席 to 減少（する） him to second on the depth chart in 2024.

Even Bradberry has 譲歩するd that he pulled on Smith-Schuster's jersey. 'It was a 持つ／拘留するing,' Bradberry told reporters. 'I tugged his jersey. I was hoping they would let it slide'