hopes to finish<\/a> his long broadcasting career with his current employer.<\/p>\n\u201cIf you reached through my computer screen right now and handed me a contract to continue my time at ESPN, I would sign it without even looking at it,\u201d Buck told Deitsch. \u201cI\u2019ve loved every second of it and I am hopeful that I\u2019m at ESPN for the rest of my career. That\u2019s as plain as I can say it and as honest as I can say it and maybe it\u2019s stupid of me to say. If something gets thrown at me and I have to shift, I\u2019ll shift. But I would be hopeful to stay right where I am until I\u2019m finished.\u201d<\/p>\n
He knows that, at some level, professing love for a broadcasting job will prompt the broadcaster\u2019s bean counters to try to lowball him at the bargaining table. And he added that his agent has had no formal talks on a five-year deal that was signed in 2022.<\/p>\n
So the math is the math. And the market is the market.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s only a small handful of top jobs in the NFL universe. The planets could align, however, for Buck to potentially replace Al Michaels at Amazon, if Michaels retires after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
Buck, 56, started calling NFL games with Fox at the age of 25. He worked there from 1994 through 2021. His fifth season with ESPN will be capped by a Super Bowl. And there\u2019s no reason to think that won\u2019t continue indefinitely.<\/p>\n
Still, talks will happen at some point. Buck\u2019s comments seem to be a public invitation to get things taken care of ASAFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a time when ESPN\u2019s Troy Aikman has made plenty of waves in the NFL pool for his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-580580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}