Dan Patrick shares ESPN broadcasting advice for Jason Kelce
It was reported on Wednesday that ESPN is “aggressively pursuing” retired Philadelphia Eagles heart Jason Kelce for the community’s “Monday Night time Soccer” protection.
Dan Patrick first grew to become a family title on account of his work on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” program and thinks Kelce could need to move on presents made by the four-letter community this spring.
“You don’t simply are available and do “Monday Night time Countdown,” Patrick stated throughout Wednesday’s version of his “The Dan Patrick Present” about how ESPN makes use of personalities, as shared by Robert O’Neill of Terrible Saying. “There’s a lot extra they’ll ask you to do…You go in and also you’ll be on this present and this present and this present and this present. You’re at their demand. (“Monday Night time Soccer” broadcaster) Troy Aikman has to do issues with ‘the mothership’ the place he didn’t have to try this with Fox.”
Patrick is correct in that people who function “Monday Night time Soccer” analysts additionally repeatedly seem on ESPN applications corresponding to “Get Up,” “First Take,” “NFL Stay” and “SportsCenter.” Such a chance could enchantment to Kelce as he makes an attempt to construct upon what’s change into a rising media empire, however Patrick sounds fearful the seven-time Professional Bowl choice may endure from overexposure.
“I don’t need it to be watered down that you simply’re listening to it three or 4 instances over the course of the day,” Patrick continued. “When you go to ESPN, it’s important to actually be geared as much as, ‘I actually like being on TV. I actually like being on radio. I actually like doing any person’s podcast.'”
Patrick added that he thinks Kelce is “a singular voice proper now” and ought to be featured in “one place.”
Not lengthy after Kelce formally introduced his retirement, it was reported that NBC, CBS and ESPN had been pursuing him for his or her NFL-related applications. On Wednesday, media insider Andrew Marchand of The Athletic revealed that ESPN, NBC, CBS and Amazon Prime Video nonetheless “all have curiosity” within the 36-year-old.
It was beforehand recommended that Amazon may land Kelce and change into the house of the “New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce” podcast that reached an sudden degree of recognition final NFL season partly due to Travis Kelce’s relationship with leisure celebrity Taylor Swift.
If Jason Kelce finally agrees with Patrick, the Eagles icon may both look to signal a singular one-day-a-week-only cope with ESPN or just come to phrases on an settlement with one of many different NFL media companions trying to safe his companies earlier than preseason video games begin in August. For instance, CBS has a number of openings for its “The NFL In the present day” studio present.