{"id":116421,"date":"2024-10-20T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116421"},"modified":"2024-10-20T19:15:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T12:15:45","slug":"tom-brady-new-las-vegas-raiders-owner-has-severe-limitations-on-his-fox-commentary-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=116421","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady, new Las Vegas Raiders owner, has severe limitations on his Fox commentary now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"132\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2dru399002w9bm0efa0rqad@published\">Tom Brady is handsome enough, rich enough, and accomplished enough that he should be able to do more or less whatever he wants. Brady wants to leave his pregnant girlfriend for one of the world\u2019s most famous supermodels? That\u2019s his business. Brady wants to capitalize on the pandemic to sell a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/patriots\/2020\/05\/tom-brady-tarnishing-his-legacy-with-tb12s-misleading-immune-supplement-during-coronavirus-pandemic-matt-vautour.html\">immune-system snake oil<\/a> to his adoring fans? He\u2019s successful and gorgeous. Brady wants to make zillions doing commercials for a fraudulent and soon-to-melt-down crypto exchange, urging people to throw money into the pot before it all goes kaboom? When did capitalism become a crime? And besides, the bankruptcy proceedings are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-10-07\/ftx-clear-to-repay-customers-as-firms-seek-slice-of-1-billion\">going quite well<\/a>. Maybe he\u2019ll get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/37974774\/report-tom-brady-lost-30m-collapse-crypto-giant-ftx\">his own investment<\/a> back, and he deserves it. Dreams of American excess and infallibility work only if men like Brady can embody them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"86\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxm44001m3b71wrrl72vy@published\">But the NFL and Fox have taken this concept too far. In a world full of people who are willing to cater to Brady\u2019s wishes, the most powerful sports league and a top broadcast partner have colluded to make Brady even richer and, this time, to do it in a way that harms football fans. More than any favorable treatment Brady ever got from on-field officials, his next chapter in the NFL will be the most galling, annoying example of the sport\u2019s preferential treatment toward him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"93\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxm5b001n3b71uuj5wwwz@published\">Brady is a new part owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, a team that played in Brady\u2019s native Bay Area before owner Mark Davis soullessly ripped it away to the desert in pursuit of a taxpayer-funded stadium. Brady and a business partner this week finalized their purchase of a 10 percent stake in the team, buying in at a roughly $3.5 billion valuation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/10\/15\/tom-brady-to-be-part-owner-of-nfls-las-vegas-raiders.html\">CNBC reported<\/a>. Brady\u2019s becoming a team owner surprises no one, just as Michael Jordan\u2019s buying an NBA team felt natural. It will be the same after LeBron James stops playing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"169\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxm6t001o3b713cvkgudk@published\">Where Brady\u2019s equity in the Raiders reaches a cosmic level of farce is in the other hat the NFL will let him wear at the same time. Brady started this season as the top booth analyst for Fox\u2019s game broadcasts. He collects about <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/10\/tom-brady-gets-monster-10-year-375-million-deal-from-fox-sports\/\">$37.5 million a year<\/a> in that job. Through six weeks, Brady has been perfectly fine in the booth, drawing reviews that sit mostly between <em>below average<\/em> and <em>pretty good<\/em>. It doesn\u2019t matter how good Brady is at analyzing games and conveying his thoughts to viewers, though. Brady\u2019s job is to look pretty and fulfill the crucial job of being Tom Brady. Fox is a big public company, the NFL is perhaps its most precious asset, and Brady is a superstar who makes the joint Fox\u2013NFL product glitzier. In a vacuum, that would be fine, even though Brady replaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/nfl\/2023\/2\/6\/23586931\/greg-olsen-fox-broadcasting-super-bowl-tom-brady\">a tremendous analyst<\/a> who just so happened to be a mildly famous former tight end, instead of the best quarterback ever. Brady, after all, plays by different rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"108\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxm7z001p3b71dfiwn6zr@published\">But Brady is never going to be a serious TV commentator\u2014not while he owns part of a team. He has worked this season under a series of restrictions that have kept him from truly leveling up as a broadcaster. These rules are perhaps the only ones in the world that Brady faces and most human beings do not, designed to manage the obvious potential for a conflict of interest when a guy who owns one team serves as a front man for a league with 31 other teams. Now these limits will remain. As the highest-profile commentator in the NFL, Brady now co-owns a team and thus cannot:<\/p>\n<ul data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-list\/instances\/cm2dt2ioo00063b71816fts6c@published\" class=\"slate-list\">\n<li>\n<p>Attend broadcast production meetings, either in person or remotely, as TV crews receive information about NFL teams during those meetings. A coach might not share with another team\u2019s owner what he\u2019d share with a broadcaster.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Criticize any team other than the Raiders (though it\u2019s not clear where the NFL draws the line between negative analysis and illegal \u201ccriticism\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Criticize game officials (ditto)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Communicate with members of other teams beyond superficial social media contact, because NFL owners aren\u2019t supposed to be chatting with other teams\u2019 players.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<aside class=\"recirc-line\" data-via=\"recirc-line\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/recirc-line\/instances\/cm2dru399002x9bm0x3rnv9ng@published\">\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/10\/college-football-playoff-upsets-alabama-georgia-texas-oregon.html\" class=\"recirc-line__content\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"recirc-line__img\">\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=140\" width=\"141\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=320 320w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=480 480w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=600 600w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=840 840w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=960 960w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1280 1280w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1440 1440w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1600 1600w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=1920 1920w,&#10;https:\/\/compote.slate.com\/images\/aadeb3a9-7284-44c8-b3e1-aab1e582d13b.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&amp;width=2200 2200w\" sizes=\"auto, 141px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"recirc-line__byline\">Alex Kirshner<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"recirc-line__promoline\">This College Football Season Is Anarchy<\/h3>\n<p>        <b class=\"slate-link--bold recirc-line__read-more\">Read More<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"88\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxmjf001u3b713e5soff7@published\">Not being able to do these things means that Brady, despite his one-of-a-kind football mind, has no chance of being more than an OK analyst. His lack of attendance at production meetings, during which his colleagues can interview coaches, may not be a huge deal. (Brady can study game tape with the best of them to compensate.) But Brady will spend every second of every broadcast for his entire Fox career straddling a line between speaking honestly and staying onside of the NFL\u2019s rules for owners of teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"126\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxmke001v3b71hdd4gdxu@published\">The problem is that many people associated with any given game deserve to be criticized. Officials make bad calls. Can Brady say that? Does he have to say it with a certain level of politeness? Quarterbacks make terrible plays, and team owners make terrible decisions to <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/podcasts\/hang-up-and-listen\/2024\/10\/deshaun-watsons-collapse-in-cleveland-exciting-mlb-playoff-baseball-and-longer-sports-seasons-on-hang-up-and-listen\">keep trotting them out there<\/a>. Can Brady point out the obvious fact that Deshaun Watson has morphed into one of the worst passers in league history? Can he even allude to the dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/41220358\/browns-deshaun-watson-denies-latest-sexual-assault-allegations\">sexual assault allegations against Watson<\/a>, or would that count as criticism beneath an owner of a club? How much the NFL and Fox let Brady get away with isn\u2019t the point. The mere fact that he\u2019ll have to be cognizant of some nebulous boundary is enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"88\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxmlh001w3b71zggbezm3@published\">Maybe this all feels like an overreaction. After all, NFL TV commentators <em>all <\/em>work for media corporations that do billions of dollars in commerce with the league. Tony Romo does not take Roger Goodell to task for his callousness over concussions on CBS. Troy Aikman does not go on and on about the incompetence of Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper on ESPN. Everyone associated with the league knows where their bread is buttered, and in that tradition, maybe Brady does not appear on the surface to be different.<\/p>\n<aside data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/in-article-recirc\/instances\/cm2dru399002y9bm0wi99uubh@published\" class=\"in-article-recirc\" data-via=\"article-inline_recirc-rubric-sports\">\n<ol class=\"in-article-recirc__list\">\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/10\/nfl-tom-brady-raiders-owner-fox-football-analyst.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            Tom Brady\u2019s New Job Is an Insult to NFL Fans<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/10\/college-football-playoff-upsets-alabama-georgia-texas-oregon.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            This College Football Season Is Anarchy<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/10\/tarik-skubal-detroit-tigers-pitching-baseball-world-series.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            How One Pitcher Is Helping Carry His Underdog Team to the World Series<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"in-article-recirc__item\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/09\/woj-st-bonaventure-adrian-wojnarowski-retires-espn-nba-basketball.html\" class=\"in-article-recirc__link\"><\/p>\n<p>            The Final Woj Bomb Has Landed<br \/>\n          <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"120\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxmmi001x3b71tfqugdh8@published\">But his case is different. TV commentators sometimes say interesting things about the NFL. Team owners do not, unless they\u2019re throwing fits to get attention in the style of the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 Jerry Jones. Brady is already a milquetoast, image-conscious man, and now he serves more masters than anyone who has ever done his commentating job. Would <em>you <\/em>go out of your way to say anything compelling about a football game if it might subject you to recriminations from 31 of the most powerful capitalists in the world, who were suddenly your business partners? Tens of millions of people will watch Brady each week, and his commentary will be the first filter through which many of them perceive professional football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"slate-paragraph slate-graf\" data-word-count=\"92\" data-uri=\"slate.com\/_components\/slate-paragraph\/instances\/cm2drxmnn001y3b71xirx1hg7@published\">Brady spent decades molding himself into the best quarterback who ever lived. Not two months into his first season as a broadcaster, he has ensured he will never be much more than mediocre in this new job. He will get paid, and Fox and the NFL will reap marginally higher benefits from having him attached to a marquee game each week. Anyone who would prefer to hear quasi-independent commentary will have to deal with the charade. 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