Tom Brady defends dual NFL roles; Bears coach Ben Johnson not worried
Sep 25, 2025
Tom Brady responds to his critics concerning both his role as a broadcaster and his role as a minority owner of the Raiders.
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It seems Tom Brady has had enough of critics who say his part ownership in the Las Vegas Raiders
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shouldn't mix with his role as a broadcaster. Brady called out the paranoid and distrustful for believing the two roles present a conflict of interest
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The seven-time Super Bowl winning quarterback and future Hall of Famer writes a weekly newsletter called The 199
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This week's topic is do your job, and Brady talks about both his role as a broadcaster and his role as a minority owner of the Raiders
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He broke down the controversy in his own words. I love football. At its core, it's a game of principles
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And with all the success it has given me, I feel I have a moral and ethical duty to the sport
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Which is why the point where my roles in it intersect is not actually a point of conflict
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despite what the paranoid and distrustful might believe. Brady is in his second year as the lead yst for the NFL on Fox
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His appearance in the Raiders' coaches booth on September 15th, complete with headset
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reignited the conflict of interest debate. The NFL weighed in with a statement the next day, saying there are no policies that prohibit an owner
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from sitting in the coaches booth or wearing a headset during a game
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When told that Brady was seen in the coaches booth Monday night, Raiders head coach Pete Carroll
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admitted that he and offensive coordinator Chip Kelly seek Brady advice We have conversations I talk to Tom Chip talks to Tom regularly I mean we have a tremendous asset And so you know and we all get along well and
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we respect each other. And so we just talk, you know, about life and football and whatever it
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comes. And he has great insight. So we're lucky to have him as an owner. The Raiders host the
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Chicago Bears on Sunday. Brady was on the call when the Bears beat the Dallas Cowboys three
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days ago. But Chicago coach Ben Johnson shot down any concern about Brady taking part in broadcast
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production meetings last week. I mean, we change week to week in terms of what we do. Schematically
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he's going to be able to turn on the tape and see what everyone else in the world's seeing right now
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Personnel-wise, really the same thing. It's not like I'm going to sit down with him and tell him
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hey, don't do this to Caleb Williams or you might get it. There's not going to be any trade secrets
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that are going to be exchanged, but I just, I really don't think it's that big of a deal
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to be honest with you. If the Raiders somehow blow out the Bears on Sunday, the internet and
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social media conspiracy theorists will be back at work. Brady blames our current social and
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political climate to a degree. When you live through uncertain and untrusting times like we
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are today, it's very easy to watch a person's passions and profession intersect and to believe
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you're looking at some sort of dilemma," he wrote. For Straight Arrow News, I'm Chris Francis
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