Greg Olsen on Going Viral, Tom Brady, & More

SI Media With Jimmy Traina

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Episode 505 of "SI Media With Jimmy Traina" features a conversation with Fox NFL analyst, Greg Olsen.

Olsen shares his reaction to going viral thanks to a photo from Christian McCaffrey and Olivia Culpo's wedding, explains why he looked the way he looked in that photo and shares his thoughts on wedding etiquette.

Olsen also talks about going into this NFL season as Fox's No. 2 analyst after being the No. 1 analyst the past two years, what his relationship is like with Tom Brady and winning the Sports Emmy for Best Sports Event Analyst two years in a row.

Other topics discussed with Olsen include whether Comedy Central missed a golden opportunity by not having him roast Tom Brady, what goes on at Tight End University, the best tight end of all time and much more.

Following Olsen, Sal Licata from WFAN and SNY joins Jimmy for the weekly "Traina Thoughts" segment. This week's topics include thoughts on CBS and Fox's NFL booths for 24, Nick Castellanos' propensity for homering during big news days, Peacock raising its prices, "Veep" and much mor

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to S.I. Media with Jimmy Trainer. Thank you so much for listening. We have a very, very fun and I think great
0:11.2	episode here for you this week with Foxes Greg Olson. I get into with
0:16.1	Greg right in the beginning so I'm not going to give you too much backstory but there
0:18.6	was a photo of Greg Olson at Christian McCaffrey's wedding that went viral a couple of weeks ago and Greg and
0:26.3	I go in depth on that photo and going viral and obviously we talk about his
0:30.6	career as a broadcaster and what's going on with him this season with Tom Brady
0:34.6	taking over the number one role with Fox and working with Kevin Burkhart
0:38.4	Greg will be on the number two team at Fox with Joe Davis so we discuss all of that and Greg winning some
0:45.2	Emmys and a few other things. Very fun chat with Greg Olson from Fox and then
0:49.7	obviously Salicata joins me for our weekly trainer thoughts segment.
0:55.0	Before we get into it, let me just tell you recent guests in case you've missed any of them here on
1:00.4	SME with Jimmy trainer that you need to listen to.
1:02.8	Noah Eagle, he'll be calling men's and women's USA Olympic basketball for the next few weeks,
1:07.8	was on the show last week.
1:09.5	Ben Fisher was on the show from Sports Business Journal a couple weeks ago he broke down the
1:13.3	NFL's lawsuit with this antitrust lawsuit with Sunday ticket where we are
1:18.7	supposed to get some money eventually which will be nice. Jason McCordy
1:22.1	leaving good morning football was on the show three weeks ago which will be nice. Jason McCordy, leaving Good Morning.
1:23.2	Football was on the show three weeks ago, Pablo Tori, four weeks ago.
1:27.4	So check those out.
1:28.4	Subscribe to SI Media with Jimmy Trina and leave a review on Apple.
1:31.8	We'll read reviews on the podcast next week.
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