{"id":247347,"date":"2025-09-19T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/?p=247347"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T16:30:39","slug":"tom-brady-reportedly-uses-tv-knowledge-to-benefit-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/09\/19\/tom-brady-reportedly-uses-tv-knowledge-to-benefit-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady Reportedly Uses TV Knowledge to Benefit Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/02\/26\/nfl-announces-matthew-stafford-update-tom-brady-raiders\/\" target=\"_self\">Tom Brady<\/a>, seven-time Super Bowl champ turned Fox Sports\u2019 $37.5 million man, appeared in the Raiders\u2019 coaches\u2019 booth during Monday Night Football, headset on, eyes locked. To many, it looked less like a broadcaster doing homework and more like an owner calling plays.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the rumors started. Football expert Peter Schrager said former quarterback Brady talks often with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/raiders\/\" target=\"_self\">Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> offensive coordinator Chip Kelly &#8211; not just sometimes, but two or three times each week &#8211; sharing ideas, according to TMZ Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he&#8217;s got some level of involvement,\u201d analyst Michael Babcock said. \u201cThere&#8217;s no way that they&#8217;ve got Tom Brady sitting there and nobody&#8217;s asking Tom what he thinks. In my mind, that&#8217;s too far-fetched for me to believe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I necessarily think that he&#8217;s game planning two times a week on the phone with Chip Kelly for hours? Now, I don&#8217;t necessarily believe that either,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Brady Is Finished... | TMZ Sports Full Ep 9\/16\/25\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZZm3andK9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Raiders head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/2025\/01\/24\/las-vegas-raiders-hire-pete-carroll-as-head-coach\/\" target=\"_self\">Pete Carroll<\/a> admitted after first denying it:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChip talks to Tom, regularly,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cI mean, we have a tremendous asset, and we all get along well, and we respect each other. And we just talk about life and football, and whatever it comes, and he has great insight.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Tom Brady Takes Privilege?<\/h2>\n<p>According to critics, Brady\u2019s job at Fox requires him to meet with teams before each broadcast, sitting in private sessions where coaches spill game plans and players reveal tendencies. The concern? He takes that privileged intel back to Las Vegas, where he\u2019s also a minority owner. Radio host Dan Patrick points to a looming example:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, I see Tom, he&#8217;s in the coach&#8217;s booth,\u201d Patrick said. \u201cHe&#8217;s there helping Chip Kelly, the offensive coordinator. He&#8217;s got a headset on, and I&#8217;m thinking, okay, let me look at Tom&#8217;s schedule here coming up, just in case there&#8217;s a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike he would be doing a game, and then that team would be playing the Raiders. Well, he&#8217;s got the Cowboys and the Bears, and then the Bears play the Raiders. That&#8217;s a direct conflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Don&#039;t Like The Look Of This&quot; - Dan Patrick On Tom Brady In Raiders Coaching Booth | 9\/16\/25\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3eSMivQA7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The league signed off on Brady\u2019s unusual setup years ago, valuing his star power. But division rivals are howling, may call it a loophole that tilts the playing field.<\/p>\n<h2>The Heat Won\u2019t Fade<\/h2>\n<p>And this is Tom Brady we\u2019re talking about. The same competitor who studied film like a monk and found daylight where no one else did. For now, the NFL looks the other way, balancing integrity against entertainment. But the heat won\u2019t fade. If the Raiders win a tight game against a team Brady broadcast the week before, or if a free agent he once interviewed signs in Vegas, the uproar will roar back.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, Brady might have a big decision to make. He can either be a TV commentator or help a team win on the field. Which one will he choose?<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders play the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/category\/nfl-teams\/washington-commanders\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Commanders<\/a> on Sunday, Sept 21, at 10:00 AM PDT.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image: Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Brady&#8217;s dual roles as a Las Vegas Raiders minority owner and Fox Sports analyst ignite a major NFL conflict of interest controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5624,"featured_media":247435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17,6431],"tags":[516,33575,238,331],"class_list":["post-247347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl-news","category-raiders","category-nfl-teams","tag-chip-kelly","tag-dan-patrick","tag-pete-carroll","tag-tom-brady"],"modified_by":"Drew Crabtree","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247437,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247347\/revisions\/247437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}