Joe Buck had no foresight about Troy Aikman’s transition to ESPN.

Appearing on the podcast “Sports-Casters,” Buck revealed that he would continue to be a part of the Monday night football broadcast on ESPN, alongside his close friends and long-time broadcast partner, ultimately before joining the three-time Super Bowl champion package on Fox Sports.

“The Super Bowl and the postseason are basically like the big football games on Sundays, which he would do with me on Fox every other weekend. Then, there’s the doubleheader game on Thursday nights, which is being broadcasted on Amazon. Troy thought that this past year was the worst, as it was true that all the games were late on Sunday nights… And as Buck said, it was honestly awful to be covering them. I never saw it coming, my God, honest.”

Essentially, I would basically just do the same thing as before on Sunday night and Thursday night, staying at Fox and playing games. The whole situation would remain unchanged from what we had done in the previous four years.

That was already a kind of set up plan. I’m thrilled for Joe Davis. It felt like time was passing, but I loved every second of it. It was a new voice for me, and I was going to step aside. This year would have been the year I said I was going to do more than one baseball season. I’ve said this a million times, and I’ve said it a million times before. Fox told me, “You’re right, because you want to do what I do.” I started to think in my head, “You totally kind of started it.” He was completely gone, and I saw him walk out the door. But you’re right. It’s pretty open about him, and that’s his story to tell.

Aikman had expressed his disappointment with the way he left Fox after being there for 21 years. This occurred in March.

I don’t know if I will ever get an answer to that.

I am very excited about ESPN and that’s why I will not be watching Fox. I asked him for an explanation on some things I didn’t quite understand and when I talked to him, I didn’t opt to do that and he didn’t really understand. I guess I would have thought there would have been a conversation at least. I would have thought there would have been a conversation, I guess it’s disappointing. “Aikman said later.”

According to Andrew Marchand of The Post, Buck inked a five-year agreement valued at a total of $75 million. It also helped that Buck’s spouse, Michelle Beisner-Buck, contributes to “Monday Night Football” segments, and this position enables them to spend more time together during football season. Another contributing factor was the fact that his wife, Michelle Beisner-Buck, does features for “Monday Night Football,” and this job allows them to be together much more during football season. He was not inclined to begin anew with a fresh color commentator, whereas Aikman’s contract was expiring, Buck still had one year remaining on his agreement.

Buck expressed his gratitude to Fox for making the move possible by allowing him to leave early, mentioning that one Big Ten football game was the condition set by Fox.

He expressed, “Fox granted me a tremendous favor.” “They were under no obligation to release me. They proposed an extension, so it wasn’t as if they were begging, ‘Oh, please take him.’ I could have easily accepted an extension there and still be present. However, they comprehended my desire to collaborate with Troy, and I believe a change would benefit everyone. Consequently, they arranged a trade, I believe it was between Penn State and Purdue. …That’s the value they placed on me, Penn State-Purdue.”

Now Kevin Burkhardt is the primary play-by-play announcer for Fox. According to The Post, Tom Brady’s contract is worth $375 million over a span of 10 years. Fox promptly adjusted their plans after Buck and Aikman left, and on March 10, they announced that Tom Brady would join their top broadcasting team once he retired from the NFL.