Tom Brady's first season as an NFL broadcaster featured frequent awkward silences and uninteresting analysis despite a $37.5 million per-year contract with Fox. The limited access to pregame production meetings, imposed because of his minority ownership stake in the Las Vegas Raiders, reduced his ability to gather team insights. The ownership restriction prevented attendance at other teams' practices and information-gathering sessions, and the league previously allowed an exception for the Super Bowl. The NFL has removed the ban on attending production meetings to improve his commentary, though Brady will remain barred from attending team practices.
Tom Brady's first season as NFL broadcaster did not go well. The man who Fox is paying $37.5 million per year to provide color commentary spent most of his on-air season stumbling in and out of awkward silences, while offering up so much boring analysis that at times it became fair to wonder how this guy became the greatest quarterback in NFL history.
Since Brady is a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, the NFL didn't want him attending other teams' practices and pumping people for info that could theoretically be exploited by the Raiders. This rule was sensible, and if it made Brady worse at his job, that's entirely on him. Nobody forced this guy to buy a piece of the Raiders. But now that rule is gone, according to The Athletic.
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