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Is Greg Olsen getting a pay cut? Tom Brady’s broadcasting career could spell doom for former NFL star

When Tom Brady retired, he was supposed to start broadcasting NFL games for Fox. However, the quarterback decided to take a year off before starting to call NFL games.

Who is the happiest person in the world because of this choice? Greg Olsen is a former tight end for the Carolina Panthers and a current analyst for Fox.

The reason is easy to understand. The New York Post says that Brady’s decision to wait a year before joining Fox as an analyst will earn Olsen $7 million as long as he stays the channel’s top analyst.

Olsen has a clause in his contract that says he can leave Fox if he gets an offer to join another network after he gets demoted.

Tom Brady
Tom Brady

What’s the deal with Tom Brady and Fox?

Fox has a deal with Tom Brady to make him an analyst for ten years and pay him $375 million. The value was supposed to start when the quarterback retired, but he decided to wait a year.

He played football for 23 years and won many titles and awards, making him the best quarterback of all time. Since he has won so much and been the most popular player in the league for so long, he has made a lot of money over the years.

But his vast $37.5 million salary is still much higher than any other NFL analyst on TV networks. Tony Romo makes “just” $17 million from CBS, even though he is said to make the most money from any network. Brady will make it twice as much.

The next generation of his family will never have to worry about money, especially since his ex-wife, Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen, is also thought to have a net worth of $400 million. Their children will be fine.

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Tom Brady’s Broadcasting Career

“Take some time to really learn, get good at what I want to do, get good at, you know, thinking about the opportunity and making sure I don’t rush into anything,” Brady said.

Brady said he has always wanted to be “fully committed” and “never wanted to let people down.”

“I think that was the thing that drove me the most,” he said about his NFL career. “So, you know, I want to be great at what I do even in the future, and that always takes time, planning, learning, and growing.”

Last week, Brady said he was retiring “for good.” He had played in the NFL for 23 years, 20 of them with the New England Patriots and the last three with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and won seven Super Bowls.

 

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Brady is widely considered to be one of the best players of all time. He helped build a dynasty in New England by leading the Patriots to 17 AFC East Division titles, 13 conference championship games, nine Super Bowl appearances, and six Super Bowl wins.

All of these are NFL records for a player or franchise. Brady took over as starting quarterback for the Patriots in 2001, replacing former No. 1 overall pick Drew Bledsoe.

In 2020, Brady decided to move to sunny Tampa Bay. He made an immediate impact and led the Buccaneers to their second Super Bowl in franchise history. By doing this, the Bucs became the first team to win a Super Bowl at their home stadium.

During Brady’s three years with the team, the Buccaneers made the playoffs each year and won the NFC South Division title in 2021 and 2022.

Brady was the most valuable player in the NFL in 2007, 2010, and 2017. He won six Super Bowls with the Patriots.

The five-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player has played in 10 of the last 20 Super Bowls. He holds a number of NFL quarterback records, such as passing yards (89,214), completions (7,753), touchdown passes (649) and games started (649), among other things (372).

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Tom Brady NFL Career

When Brady went to the NFL, the New England Patriots picked him in the sixth round of the NFL draft in 2000. At first, he was just a backup quarterback, and in his first season, he only played in one game.

The 2001 season was different. When Drew Bledsoe, the starting quarterback, got hurt, Brady took over and showed he was a strong leader with a strong arm. If anyone had doubts about his skills, they only had to look at the team’s record. In the 14 games that Brady started, the team had an impressive 11 wins and 3 losses. In the playoffs, he helped the team beat the St. Louis Rams at Super Bowl XXXVI. Brady was named the MVP of the game.

Two years later, at Super Bowl XXXVIII against the Carolina Panthers, Brady led his team to another win, which earned him a second Super Bowl MVP award. And in 2004, Brady led the team to another Super Bowl win, 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles.

In 2005, Brady signed a new six-year deal with the Patriots. In 2006, the team finished the regular season with a 12-4 record.

Tom Brady
Tom Brady

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Greg Olsen: Bio

GregoryWalter Olsen was born on March 11, 1985, in Wayne, New Jersey. He grew up there, near New Meadowlands Stadium, with his brothers Kevin Olsen and Chris Olsen, Jr., both of whom also play football.

Greg started playing soccer when he was a kid. He followed in the footsteps of his brother, Chris Olsen, Jr., with the help of their father, who coached him. To keep learning, he went to Wayne Hills High School. From there, he went to the University of Notre Dame, and then a few days after his brother Chris left Notre Dame for the University of Virginia, he went to the University of Miami.

Greg was great at both football and basketball when he was in high school. Still, football is what he will do for a living. After a successful college career, Olsen chose to enter the 2007 NFL Draft. The Chicago Bears took him with the 31st overall pick in the first round. Soon after, he signed a five-year deal with the club. On September 23, 2007, he made his League debut.

He played for the team until 2011. In 2011, he was traded to the Carolina Panthers, where he has played ever since. In 2018, he signed a two-year deal that could pay him up to $20.1 million, or $17.1 million.

Greg Olsen: Biographical Details

Stage Name Greg Olsen
Real Name Greg Olsen
Profession(s) Actor,
Birthday March 11, 1985
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Age 37 years
Gender Male
Birthplace Paterson, United States
Hometown Paterson, New Jersey, United States

Greg Olsen: Career

Olsen was picked by the Chicago Bears with the 31st pick in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He signed a five-year deal with the team on July 3, making him the first of the top 64 players in the draft to agree to terms with their team. In 2007, he hurt his knee in the Bears’ last preseason game. As a result, he missed the team’s first two games while he healed.

On September 23, 2007, against the Dallas Cowboys, it was his first game in the NFL. He caught two passes for 28 yards. Two weeks later, in Week 5, Olsen caught his first touchdown pass in a game against the Green Bay Packers. Olsen had 39 catches for 391 yards and two touchdowns by the end of the season.

In Olsen’s second season, he played more than in his first. Seven of the 16 games he played in, he was the starter. He had 54 catches for 574 yards and five touchdowns. He led the team in touchdowns scored by receivers and was second in receptions and yards gained by receivers.

Olsen was chosen as the 2009 Pro Bowl’s second alternate. Olsen was named the Bears Player of the Year by the Comcast SportsNet station in Chicago.

Greg Olsen
Greg Olsen

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Greg Olsen: Family

Olsen grew up with two brothers who also played football, which supports Greg’s claim that sports are the center of his family’s life. Because their father was a coach, his older brother, Chris Olsen Jr., had been playing since he was a child. He played football in college, but he couldn’t get into the NFL.

Kevin Olsen, the youngest of the three brothers, has also been involved in sports his whole life, just like his older brothers. Kevin chose to play in the NFL even though he was a quarter of the Charlotte 49ers at the University of North Carolina. But he is now charged with rape and could spend up to 10 years in jail, even though he denies the claim and won’t take a plea deal.

Greg Olsen, on the other hand, is already married and has a good personal life as well as a successful career. In 2009, he got together with Kara Dooley, whom he had met when they were both college students at the University of Miami.

Greg and Kara’s first child, Tate Christian Olsen, was born in 2011, two years after they got married. Kara Dooley gave birth to twin boys, Talbot and Trent Jerry, on October 9, 2012.

The beautiful family now lives in North Carolina, where the Panthers star still plays football and Kara Dooley does charity work with the Greg Olsen Foundation, which the NFL star set up in 2009 to raise money and help people with cancer. He started the foundation because of what his mother, Susan Olsen, went through with cancer. She has been cancer-free for over a decade.

Greg Olsen Family
Greg Olsen Family

Greg Olsen: Net Worth 2023

The man from Wayne is thought to be worth about $10 million. Professional football is how he makes most of his money. Greg has made $59.97 million over the course of more than twelve seasons, which puts him at number 113 on the list of active NFL players as of 2018.

In July 2011, the tight end joined the Carolina Panthers. In March 2015, he signed a three-year contract extension worth $22.5 million, which included a $12 million signing bonus and a $7.5 million average annual salary.

Before the deal ended, which was supposed to last through the 2018 season, the team made it a priority to keep Greg Olsen in Carolina. They gave him a two-year extension worth $17,100,000, which included a signing bonus of $11,100,000, a guarantee of $12,115,000, and an average annual salary of $8,550,000.

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Subham Dutta
Subham Dutta

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