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 identify on account of his work on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” program and thinks Kelce might wish 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 Asserting. “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 true in that people who function “Monday Night time Soccer” analysts additionally commonly seem on ESPN applications resembling “Get Up,” “First Take,” “NFL Reside” and “SportsCenter.” Such a possibility might attraction to Kelce as he makes an attempt to construct upon what’s turn into a rising media empire, however Patrick sounds fearful the seven-time Professional Bowl choice may undergo from overexposure. 

“I don’t need it to be watered down that you simply’re listening to it three or 4 occasions over the course of the day,” Patrick continued. “In the event you go to ESPN, you need 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 have 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 advised that Amazon may land Kelce and turn into the house of the “New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce” podcast that reached an sudden stage of recognition final NFL season partly due to Travis Kelce’s relationship with leisure famous person Taylor Swift.

If Jason Kelce finally agrees with Patrick, the Eagles icon may both look to signal a singular one-day-a-week-only take care of ESPN or just come to phrases on an settlement with one of many different NFL media companions seeking to safe his companies earlier than preseason video games begin in August. For instance, CBS has a number of openings for its “The NFL Right this moment” studio present.