Tom Brady has already made a ‘genius decision’ for his TV career, Tony Romo says
"He’s going to do a great job. I think he’s going to be outstanding."
Tom Brady signed a lucrative contract with Fox last year, but is waiting until the 2024 season to make his debut as a broadcaster.
Taking time to prepare for the role is a smart move, CBS broadcaster Tony Romo said during an interview with Richard Deitsch of The Athletic.
“I think it was a genius decision by him to wait a year coming out and prepare himself. He’s going to do a great job. I think he’s going to be outstanding,” Romo said.
Romo and Jim Nantz, who called last week’s Super Bowl for CBS, both told The Athletic that they talk with Brady regularly. Romo said the conversations are “just two buddies talking football.”
“I’m excited for him,” Romo said. “Tom will exhaust every resource to be as good at this as anybody. I think me and him have similar traits in that we’re going to try and work as hard as humanly possible to be as good as we can be at anything that we care about. He’s doing that.”
Brady’s contract is reportedly worth $375 million over ten years. He co-hosts a podcast with Jim Gray called “Let’s Go!” and he’s made TV appearances over the years during and after his playing career.
This fall will be his first time working full time in a broadcast booth. Deitsch reports that Brady is expected to be in FOX’s “A Chair” for broadcasts this fall as the network’s top analyst.
Brady is one of several former Patriots in the broadcasting business. Rodney Harrison and Devin McCourty are analysts for NBC, while Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman are FOX contributors.
Bill Belichick hasn’t been very active in the TV job market yet, Deitsch said. The Patriots parted ways with the 71-year-old coach last month. Should Belichick decide that he wants to do TV, there will likely be a market for him, according to Deitsch.
“Belichick has not yet made the rounds around the network carousel,” Deitsch wrote. “But if he shows interest in a TV job, even as a one-year rental, someone will bite.”
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