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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Greg Olsen is the best color commentator in the NFL

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Holmes Laurence explained why Fox Sports analyst Greg Olsen is the best color commentator in the NFL.

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0:00.0

From Bliss, Idaho to the University of Michigan.

0:03.5

Loveland, the 10th overall pick, doubled his season totals last week with 118 yards in his first two touchdowns.

0:10.2

And that was a big game, biggest group of his career, even before the game-winning score to finish it.

0:16.1

A lot of people were surprised the Bears went tight end that high in the draft.

0:19.6

You can never go high enough.

0:21.0

That's true. You can never go tight- that high in the draft. You can never go high enough. That's true.

0:21.7

You can never go tight end high enough, John.

0:28.6

Greg Olson knows you can never go tight end high enough in the draft.

0:34.5

Greg Olson, Joe Davis on the call.

0:36.0

Why do you love Greg Olson doing games,

0:37.8

Lawrence Holmes? He's smart and he's passionate and he shares it. He makes it pretty easy

0:43.1

for you as a viewer slash listener to his commentary to understand what it is that he's talking about.

0:50.6

He clearly prepares. He has talked to people inside of each building for both teams

0:56.5

that he's covering and he brings insight to it. Plus, now that he's coaching and he's coaching

1:05.5

his kids, I think that he has an even more robust perspective on all of it.

1:12.6

And it's just great.

1:14.5

There's nothing better than watching growth and watching.

1:18.5

I cover Greg and seeing the kid who walked in the door for the bears to this man that he has become is really outstanding.

1:28.2

That's really cool. That's really cool. I love when I know that the person doing the game

1:33.6

has a great understanding of the league. There was a moment early in that game when he said,

1:38.6

look, like Joe Davis was like, oh, you think they're going to go for it here on fourth down?

1:42.4

And he's like, yeah, anytime they're between the 40s on a day like today, this is a go for it league is the way

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