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For 14 years, Greg Olsen played tight end in the NFL. Since 2021, he has been with Fox Sports as a full-time broadcaster. So for almost 20 years, Greg Olsen has been around the NFL and has learned a lot about the league, the teams that play in it, and the executives and coaches who run those teams.
It has been during his time as a broadcaster, Greg Olsen says, that he discovered that not all of those NFL coaches and executives actually know what they are doing. He says he learned this by being a part of the pre-game meetings and conference calls with coaches and the Fox broadcast team that take place each week of the NFL season.
“It’s been the coolest part of the process,” Olsen told the 3 and Out With John Middlekauff podcast this week. “As fun as sitting in the stadiums and calling the games and all of that, the coolest part of the process is the insight into how a lot of these teams work, just organizationally, both through structure, through communication, through processes, through what they have in place, of how they evaluate talent, and how they roster construct, and how they do the draft.
“And when you sit down and you talk to general managers and front office personnel and they really give you a clear vision of why we’ve done certain decisions over the last two or three years to get to this point, it’s an unbelievable insight and process into how much time and thought is put into why certain teams are really good. And then you talk to other teams and you get off and you’re like, these guys have no idea what they’re doing, and it’s no wonder they’re not good.
“Like, there’s countless times a year where I hang up off of some coaches conference meeting and I’m like, I get why Sean McVay wins a lot, I get why Kevin O’Connell wins a lot, and there’s a million guys,” Olsen continued. “And then you also get off some other calls and you’re like, ‘They have no clue. They’re just making s— up.’ And it’s amazing at the NFL level, but that’s real. So that’s the most interesting part.”
Unfortunately, and kind of inexplicably, John Middlekauff didn’t follow up to see if Greg Olsen would spill on which NFL executives and coaches were “just making s— up.” Olsen probably wouldn’t have answered, but you never know, and it certainly wouldn’t have hurt to ask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gy9Ob_Oevc&t=24m29s
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