Landing Brady as an analyst has long been the Holy Grail for the NFL’s broadcast rights partners.
“These past two months I’ve realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands,’’ he said via social media.
Whenever Brady decides for good that his place on Sundays is in the booth rather than on the field, he will be paired with Kevin Burkhardt, who moves into the No.
Nothing formal has been announced regarding who will join Burkhardt in the top booth while Fox Sports waits for Brady, but Greg Olsen, the former Panthers tight end who was paired with Burkhardt on the No.
According to Sports Business Journal, Brady’s representatives began negotiating with Fox Sports after Aikman, a three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback with the Cowboys, left Fox for ESPN.
Tony Romo, CBS’s top NFL analyst, set the bar when he signed a 10-year, $180 million deal to remain with the network in February 2021.
Brady will be an enormous draw to Fox’s broadcasts when he begins, primarily due to the curiosity factor regarding how the most accomplished and arguably the highest-profile NFL player of all-time will fare.
It would be unfair to expect him to have the quick-draw sense of humor that Peyton Manning reveals over and over again on ESPN’s “ManningCast,’’ which is a different genre of analysis anyway.
