In his first year of retirement, Tom Brady is taking the year off instead of beginning his broadcasting career with Fox. The 46-year-old agreed to a 10-year deal to join Fox’s top broadcasting pair when he retired, but decided against starting that deal immediately.
On his Let’s Go podcast with Jim Gray, Brady said he is on track to join Fox after taking this year off, and he is excited for the new challenge.
“I was very blessed to play for as long as I did, and I loved it,” Brady said. “Now I get to see other guys do it, and I also get to see football from a different perspective. I’ll be on Fox next year, so I have a chance to really sit back and watch and learn a different career.”
Brady said he is most intrigued at how he will look at the game from a different perspective after spending his entire life just thinking about football as a quarterback. Now, Brady will still watch games but try to look at things differently.
“I’ll be able to really watch this year from kind of a different eye,” he continued. “I used to watch from the lens of a quarterback, now I see it more from broadcasting, but also as a fan, and also still as a quarterback.”
Until Brady officially joins Fox, Greg Olson will remain on the network’s top broadcasting team with Kevin Burkhardt. However, the future Hall of Fame quarterback will instantly call the network’s best games once he enters the next phase of his life.
