Tom Brady: What we want to see in his Fox broadcast debut on Sunday

Here’s something nobody has said to Tom Brady in two decades: Impress us.

Brady spent almost the entirety of the 2000s dominating the game of football, winning seven Super Bowls, carving an all-but-untouchable legacy, and establishing himself as the NFL’s ultimate competitor.

And for his new gig, none of that means anything.

Sunday, Brady takes over as the top analyst on Fox Sports’ No. 1 NFL Sunday team, calling the first game in a season that will end with him on the mic at the Super Bowl. If this were anyone else, we’d say this was impossibly good luck, but since this is Tom Brady, it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect.

Brady, who has never broadcast a game before and, until very recently, showed zero interest in doing so, will settle in at 4 p.m. Eastern on Sunday afternoon to call Cowboys-Browns, the first game in a 10-year, $375 million contract. It’s a landmark deal, and a pivotal moment in broadcast history.

Can a guy walk in off the field and take over one of the most high-profile jobs in sports media.

Again, if this were anyone else, we’d say this is a case of Fox paying for name value rather than broadcasting competency. But nobody ever got rich betting against Tom Brady. As long as he prepares for this gig like he prepared for his last one, he’ll be just fine.

All the same, just being TOM BRADY behind the mic won’t carry him very far. The novelty of having a megastar calling games in Cleveland will wear off in a hurry. If Brady wants to level up and be more than just a big name in a sport coat, he’ll need to be:

Knowledgeable. This is a given, of course. Brady has to do more than demonstrate his football IQ. He has to take us inside the huddle, inside the locker room, inside the headsets, inside players’ heads. A whole range of analysts, from number-crunching nerds to beefy ex-jocks, now assesses the NFL from every angle. The GOAT will need to show us the preparation and execution that made him The GOAT to keep that horde at…

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Publish date : 2024-09-06 13:35:43

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