OT: Brady booth-gate

[sb1]

It does look sketchy imo. I guess the league is ok with it for now.

 

[sb1]

 

[sb1]

I thought he was physically allowed in production meetings now

 

[Love The Drake]

We made a huge mistake not using this asset.

You know he’s recruiting when he meets these players as well.

Imagine Tom and Josh in Mayes ear.

MVP.

 

[203Pat]

Everything about this situation annoys me. The laughable notion that Brady has nothing to do with the Raiders offense on game day while he is sitting there next to the coaches in the booth with a headset on. The fact that he is able to sit in preproduction meetings with the teams he is broadcasting games for and then potentially give any information he gleans to his team. He was the commentator for the Commanders last week, and guess who the Raiders’ next opponent is? The Commanders. Such a ridiculous conflict of interest. It still annoys me that Kraft didn't give him the same sweetheart deal that Fredo Davis did out there in Vegas. Statues and ceremonies will get Brady here for that day, and that is about it; meanwhile, he is traveling with Vegas to games in his free time and actively involved in running the team.

Really haven't been a fan of Brady's post-playing career in general. He has been mediocre in the booth. The previously aforementioned Raiders ownership. Shilling for crypto scams and now selling his soul for some Saudi payday to play flag football or whatever that Fanatics weasel has cooked up.

 

[Triumph]

Brady is hard to listen to.

 

[Zuma]

We made a huge mistake not using this asset.

You know he’s recruiting when he meets these players as well.

Imagine Tom and Josh in Mayes ear.

MVP.

Just change your name to Love the Hot Take

 

[signbabybrady]

It's a little bit of a bad look for the NFL. But I see zero wrong from Brady or the Raiders.

The NFL chose the entertainment value of the broadcast over whatever info he might get in those meetings. Ultimately Brady is still an asset to the league and having him at his best every Sunday should help to sell the product at least that's what he was hired for.

I'm guessing some owners don't love it. But if the broadcast team ends up the next great team then their pockets all benefit and clearly the majority is all for that.

I bet the coaches hate it though. Puts them in the position of having to be more careful in these meetings. And for the better of the team they want to hide things which exists Brady or no Brady but with Brady it's hard to trust him with certain things and there are things they want them to know as they are also selling their own team to the masses too.

I think in the end it's not really that much info and not necessarily critical info that they can't find with their own spies already.

 

[sb1]

We made a huge mistake not using this asset.

You know he’s recruiting when he meets these players as well.

Imagine Tom and Josh in Mayes ear.

MVP.

Until the league opens an investigation against the Patriots for salary cap circumvention paying Brady much lower than the market rate for QBs over the years with a nudge wink deal to take partial ownership when he's done.

 

[sb1]

The fact that he is able to sit in preproduction meetings with the teams he is broadcasting games for and then potentially give any information he gleans to his team. He was the commentator for the Commanders last week, and guess who the Raiders’ next opponent is? The Commanders.

Yeah. It didn't matter for us in week 1 but I'd have a big problem with that if we were playing the Raiders shortly after Brady calls a Patriots game.

 

[signbabybrady]

Really haven't been a fan of Brady's post-playing career in general. He has been mediocre in the booth. The previously aforementioned Raiders ownership. Shilling for crypto scams and now selling his soul for some Saudi payday to play flag football or whatever that Fanatics weasel has cooked up.

I think it's been fun to still have him so visibly in the public eye. I think he's getting much better in the booth. I don't think the other 31 were ever going to let us do this with Tom so let him have fun with the Raiders. I wish it was the Bucs or someone other than the Raiders but whatever.

 

[203Pat]

Yeah. It didn't matter for us in week 1 but I'd have a big problem with that if we were playing the Raiders shortly after Brady calls a Patriots game.

I doubt Brady is getting any groundbreaking information on a weekly basis in preproduction meetings but he could certainly pick up on the injury status of players and even the future of certain players on the team or scheme changes adjustments etc. Wouldn't surprise me if after seeing him in the booth last night coaches around the league give him pretty much zero in the meetings going forward (if they were giving him much to begin with).

Regardless it is such a bad look for the league to have this conflict of interest highlighted on their prime time broadcast.

 

[Boomer B]

From what I read Brady is not allowed in the production meetings with the teams because of his ownership status. Pre-game he is allowed on the field but on the days before the games he doesn’t attend the meetings with players/coaches.

And normally he won’t be at Raiders games because of his broadcast duties. Only reason he was on the headset last night was because it was a Monday night game.

 

[Delicate Genius]

Could they fit any more people in that booth?

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Mike Florio has been going off about this for a while now. Here’s his latest. Pointing out not so much about individual game info, but info on players and coaches to target later.
Monday night magnified Tom Brady's conflict of interest

 

[203Pat]

Mike Florio has been going off about this for a while now. Here’s his latest. Pointing out not so much about individual game info, but info on players and coaches to target later.
Monday night magnified Tom Brady's conflict of interest

Florio might be annoying 90% of the time but when he really gets pissed off about something he hammers at it and makes sure it stays on the radar.

 

[Bill Lee]

Everything about this situation annoys me. The laughable notion that Brady has nothing to do with the Raiders offense on game day while he is sitting there next to the coaches in the booth with a headset on. The fact that he is able to sit in preproduction meetings with the teams he is broadcasting games for and then potentially give any information he gleans to his team. He was the commentator for the Commanders last week, and guess who the Raiders’ next opponent is? The Commanders. Such a ridiculous conflict of interest. It still annoys me that Kraft didn't give him the same sweetheart deal that Fredo Davis did out there in Vegas. Statues and ceremonies will get Brady here for that day, and that is about it; meanwhile, he is traveling with Vegas to games in his free time and actively involved in running the team.

Really haven't been a fan of Brady's post-playing career in general. He has been mediocre in the booth. The previously aforementioned Raiders ownership. Shilling for crypto scams and now selling his soul for some Saudi payday to play flag football or whatever that Fanatics weasel has cooked up.

You were right to emphasize that point. There is real cash money at stake here.

Tom Brady and partner Tom Wagner to pay over $200 million for stake in Las Vegas Raiders

Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl champion, will own 10% of the Las Vegas Raiders along with his business partner.

www.nbclosangeles.com

Brady brought his very wealthy "business partner" along for the ride, if not more.

There has to be a lot of pressure on Brady to make that $200M investment pay off.

No one parks that much money in one place not expecting a significant ROI.

This whole situation stinks to the high heavens, IMO.

 

[XLIX]

It still annoys me that Kraft didn't give him the same sweetheart deal that Fredo Davis did out there in Vegas. Statues and ceremonies will get Brady here for that day, and that is about it; meanwhile, he is traveling with Vegas to games in his free time and actively involved in running the team.

Tom Brady's aspirations go beyond owning just 10% of the team. He'll never do better than that here with the ownership structure in place for decades to come. It isn't a good fit for either party.

 

[XLIX]

You were right to emphasize that point. There is real cash money at stake here.

Tom Brady and partner Tom Wagner to pay over $200 million for stake in Las Vegas Raiders

Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl champion, will own 10% of the Las Vegas Raiders along with his business partner.

www.nbclosangeles.com

Brady brought his very wealthy "business partner" along for the ride, if not more.

There has to be a lot of pressure on Brady to make that $200M investment pay off.

No one parks that much money in one place not expecting a significant ROI.

This whole situation stinks to the high heavens, IMO.

Seems to me that, given the value of the Raiders, they've already made a huge ROI.

 

[sb1]

Florio might be annoying 90% of the time but when he really gets pissed off about something he hammers at it and makes sure it stays on the radar.

Disappointed to see his last sentence in that article. It's not accurate and he should know better. "(Goodell) suspended Brady 10 years ago for cheating"... no that's not why he was suspended.