{"id":79958,"date":"2025-08-19T13:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:03:09","slug":"some-nfl-coaches-just-making-sht-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79958\/","title":{"rendered":"Some NFL coaches ‘just making sh*t up’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The job of an NFL broadcaster starts long before they put their headsets on each Sunday. Throughout the week, television announcers like Greg Olsen meet with key personnel from both sides of the upcoming matchup to gather insights and inform the audience about the state of each team.<\/p>\n

These meetings not only enhance the analysis for the viewer but also generate a wealth of knowledge that NFL analysts can utilize on-air throughout the season. For Olsen, these meetings have been eye-opening.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on the\u00a03 and Out podcast released this week<\/a>, Olsen explained how he gets insight into why top coaches like Super Bowl LVI champion Sean McVay stand out compared with other coaches who are \u201cjust making sh*t up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been the coolest part of the process,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs fun as sitting in the stadiums and calling the games and all of that (is), 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\u2019ve done certain decisions over the last tow or three years to get to this point, it\u2019s 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\u2019re like, these guys have no idea what they\u2019re doing, and it\u2019s no wonder they\u2019re not good.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Many top NFL analysts like Tom Brady<\/a>, Tony Romo, and Troy Aikman are former star quarterbacks. They were in the weekly game plan meetings and potentially even had an input in the offensive design.<\/p>\n

But for Olsen, who had a more focused role as a tight end during his playing career, these calls may be even more enlightening \u2014 for better and worse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s countless times a year where I hang up off of some coaches conference meeting and I\u2019m like, I get why Sean McVay wins a lot, I get why Kevin O\u2019Connell wins a lot, there\u2019s a million guys,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then you also get off some other calls and you\u2019re like, \u2018They have no clue. They\u2019re just making sh*t up.\u2019 And it\u2019s amazing at the NFL level, but that\u2019s real.\u201d<\/p>\n

So next time you see Olsen calling a lopsided game for Fox, he just might be thinking that the losing coaching staff was just \u201cmaking sh*t up,\u201d even if he doesn\u2019t say it on air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The job of an NFL broadcaster starts long before they put their headsets on each Sunday. Throughout the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[60865,64,63,60866,593,60867,85],"class_list":["post-79958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-3-and-out-podcast","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-greg-olsen","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-on-fox","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}