08-30-2024, 11:51 AM -
From the beginning I thought Fox made a mistake in giving Brady that insane contract and then just handing him the top job. Olsen spent years honing his craft and earned his spot on Fox's #1 team and is widely praised as well as having won awards for his work. He certainly does not deserve the $10mil pay cut he has to take because Fox has the hots for Brady.
Then Brady also wants to be an owner...well.... a minority owner of the Raiders. The owners have not yet approved that and have put that vote off until Oct. In the meantime...they have put some big restrictions on what he can and cannot do.
NFL owners really don’t want Tom Brady to be part of their club.
That’s the only way to read the restrictions the league is imposing on Brady the broadcaster related to his attempts to become Brady the part-owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Which is still several months away from getting approval, mind you, if it happens at all. But the league is effectively boxing Brady in, forcing him to make a choice between his massive current paycheck or the potential “cachet” of being a minority owner of an NFL team — and leaving no doubt which one they prefer.
The NFL has had two massive cheating scandals in the last 20 years and Brady’s been involved in both.
He served a four-game suspension as part of “Deflategate,” though he’s always denied complicity in any actual wrongdoing. As New England’s quarterback, he stood to benefit the most from “Spygate,” in which the Patriots and coach Bill Belichick were both handed six-figure fines for stealing opponents’ signals.
That team owners don’t trust Brady, even after all these years, might seem petty. But there’s more than a few owners who are still salty about the scandals, and the league’s perceived favoritism of the Patriots during Brady’s tenure, and they’re not ready to let bygones be bygones.
The truest sign that Brady isn’t welcome as an owner, though, is the decree that he can’t criticize game officials and other clubs.
In other words, he can’t do his job. One Fox is paying him a whopping $375 million over 10 years to do.
Viewers want someone who is informative, not a glorified cheerleader. It’s why Aikman has lasted as long as he has and Drew Brees was out after a year. And there’s no way Brady can be an effective analyst, or give Fox its money’s worth, while also adhering to the NFL’s restrictions.
Which is the point.
Brady can be an analyst or he can be a part-owner of the Raiders, but he can’t be both. The NFL has already made that call.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co...998882007/
Welp....looks like Fox is screwed.
Their #1 team is now a mess. And IMO.....they deserve it.
Then Brady also wants to be an owner...well.... a minority owner of the Raiders. The owners have not yet approved that and have put that vote off until Oct. In the meantime...they have put some big restrictions on what he can and cannot do.
- Brady won’t be allowed to watch another team’s practices or sit in on production meetings with the coaching staff, in person or virtually.
- He can’t criticize game officials and other clubs.
NFL owners really don’t want Tom Brady to be part of their club.
That’s the only way to read the restrictions the league is imposing on Brady the broadcaster related to his attempts to become Brady the part-owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. Which is still several months away from getting approval, mind you, if it happens at all. But the league is effectively boxing Brady in, forcing him to make a choice between his massive current paycheck or the potential “cachet” of being a minority owner of an NFL team — and leaving no doubt which one they prefer.
The NFL has had two massive cheating scandals in the last 20 years and Brady’s been involved in both.
He served a four-game suspension as part of “Deflategate,” though he’s always denied complicity in any actual wrongdoing. As New England’s quarterback, he stood to benefit the most from “Spygate,” in which the Patriots and coach Bill Belichick were both handed six-figure fines for stealing opponents’ signals.
That team owners don’t trust Brady, even after all these years, might seem petty. But there’s more than a few owners who are still salty about the scandals, and the league’s perceived favoritism of the Patriots during Brady’s tenure, and they’re not ready to let bygones be bygones.
The truest sign that Brady isn’t welcome as an owner, though, is the decree that he can’t criticize game officials and other clubs.
In other words, he can’t do his job. One Fox is paying him a whopping $375 million over 10 years to do.
Viewers want someone who is informative, not a glorified cheerleader. It’s why Aikman has lasted as long as he has and Drew Brees was out after a year. And there’s no way Brady can be an effective analyst, or give Fox its money’s worth, while also adhering to the NFL’s restrictions.
Which is the point.
Brady can be an analyst or he can be a part-owner of the Raiders, but he can’t be both. The NFL has already made that call.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co...998882007/
Welp....looks like Fox is screwed.
Their #1 team is now a mess. And IMO.....they deserve it.
This post was last modified: 08-30-2024, 11:59 AM by Ladypanther.
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