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Dan Lyons

Mark Davis Confirms That Tom Brady Was 'Supposed to Be' Raiders QB in 2020

Years removed from his playing career, Tom Brady wears many hats around the football world, most notably as Fox's top color commentator and as minority owner of the Raiders.

According to Las Vegas majority owner Mark Davis, Brady was close to joining the franchise as quarterback in 2020, after he left the Patriots. Speculation to that end began in 2021, when Brady appeared on LeBron James's HBO show The Shop and said that one of the teams he spoke to in free agency backed away late, opting to stick with another quarterback... in very stark terms.

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